Tuesday, May 22, 2012

500 Facebook Friends?!!

500 Facebook friends?!! "Shut UP, I don't know no damned 500 people," I thought to myself, recently.
An aside: Sometimes I wonder that the grammar in my head is so poor. Still, I'm pushing 50, and will probably never think in internet acronyms. I would never think "STFU! IDK no 500 peepz!"

A second aside: Is the 2nd paragraph of a blog post too early for an aside? 
I am not a Facebook Friend Keep-Tracker-Of-er, so I was shocked to notice, in the last few weeks, that I was at 502. Or something. Who are all of those people?

I by-God decided to find out. I exported my friends list, and imported them into Excel. I created a series of categories and ticked them off. Here are my findings, because I know you want to know:



104—Friends
74—Family
65—Blog friends
62—High School Friends
57—Business contacts
44—Soldiers and Toys for Troops
33/24/18—People I Know Through Clint/My Dad/Brian, respectively
19—Who the Hell is That?
1—Reno Wilson
1—Dog

This is all very scientific, and categorizing was challenging and thought-provoking at times. 
  • I've met many of my friends through work. Hmmmm! Friends or Business?
  • Some bloggers have become my best friends also. I had to put them under the Blog column.
  • Clint's family: Do I put them in the Clint column or the family column?!! I wouldn't even know them without him. Hmmmm again.
  • My sister's in-laws and nieces and nephews: If they were hers they are mine. Family.
  • Reno Wilson didn't fit anywhere. He plays Carl on (The Number #1 CBS Comedy), Mike & Molly, and he's my Facebook friend because I asked him to be, because my other (real) friend Mark Roberts created that show. Mark didn't even get his own category, he was added to the "friends" column.
Aside #3: If word gets out and other celebrities would like to friend me, I'd accept. Of course, then I'd have to create a "Celebrity" column, and Reno would no longer Lord over his own column. It's a dilemma.
  • "Soldiers": Over 1000 deployed contacts over the last 5 years, and "only" 44 have friended me on Facebook. Good! I welcome every single one of them, but I'd rather they focus on staying alive, and keeping in touch with wives, children, and their own mamas, over finding us on Facebook.
  • "Who the Hell Is That?" category: I'm actually too embarrassed to admit I don't know who the hell they are. I just keep Liking their updates.
  • I think a dog unfriended me, because I'm pretty sure I used to be friends with 2 dogs.
I would like to make two closing statements about my scientific analysis: NUMBER UNO: I'm somewhat computer savvy, and though this may look crazed and intensive, this calculation only took me about 30 minutes. I defend myself because I think this may be the loser-i-est blog I've ever written.

NUMBER TWO: It is not terrible to have time and energy for the inane.

500 friends.

Who'da thunk it?

I'd really like to take each of you to lunch.

Monday, May 14, 2012

Another Country Casa Dream Rolls Around

Saturday, May 12, 2012, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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