My morbid mission for Facebook !
Just briefly! Just spoke to a long-lost friend of mine who called me out of the blue and tried to explain it to him. I feel very strongly about Facebook, not because I think it’s a great service—it’s no surrogate for real friendship, that’s for sure—but because it works well for people like me who have moved around a lot internationally over the years.
Everyone I collect in Facebook—and I sometimes do feel like a coin-collector—is someone that I have shared an experience with. Whether it’s my family, kindergarden-friends in Germany (none yet, I’m afraid), highschool-friends in the Netherlands, uni-friends in the UK, bloggers on Tech IT Easy, etc. etc. I want to keep a life-line connected to all of them.
Why? Well, I have a master-plan, which is that when I die, you will get sent an invite to my funeral !!! As a matter of fact that would make a great facebook-app, I think!
Now it really is the weekend! Enjoy it, folks!
Vincent
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Hey Vince, hope we’ll have a chance to meet in the meatspace before that day.
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