Who Cares That A Backward Roll of Toilet Paper Peeves Me?
Well, I�ve felt a little bit like that for the past several weeks�but actually with better humor than an inept dodgeball player. You see, there�s a �25 Things About Me� list (and several variations of it) that is making its way around the internets via Facebook. No doubt, many of you have already seen it. You�re supposed to write up the list of random facts about yourself, post it for all your Facebook friends to see, and then you have to tag a bunch of your friends to do the same. And it�s all meant to be fun, random, silly, a time-waster, an excuse to be narcissistic, or whatever. It is admittedly sort of fun for me to read random stuff I either never knew (or totally forgot), or already knew about various friends. The random sharing has all been appropriate and pretty inconsequential. The thing is�..I�ve been tagged TWELVE times (and counting). The quieter I am, the more I get tagged. This sounds silly, but last week I was starting to feel a sense of dread that someone had tagged me each time I logged onto FB, and sure enough, my fear of being tagged would be confirmed by a red notification square in the lower right-hand corner of my page.
Here�s the thing: although it�s incongruous with having this diary here, I am a fairly private person in real life. FB is a place where I have an assortment of different �levels� of friends, ranging from close (e.g., my best friend from when I was 13, or people I�ve known since pre-school, or my sister), to a former neighbor, to my ex-boyfriend, to old h.s/college friends, to coworkers, to (finally) those people who I know far less well and whom I�ve befriended or accepted friend requests from for �networking purposes�. That�s all fine. But do all of them have to know or even care that I make wishes at 11:11?
Having said that, after a long struggle, I�m most likely about to cave to the pressure to come up with a list of random facts about myself. After all, it�s a great excuse to procrastinate, and who can�t use one? I�m still kind of on the fence about tagging more people, though I probably will carefully choose some friends, just to show good humor and play the game. Call me guilty, I guess. And check this: 25 Things I Didn�t Want to Know About You .