Facebook Torture

In the early years, aka high school, we had America Online, the most glorious invention to hit an adolescent's life. Not only were we able to chat with the boy we liked without having an awkward phone conversation, but we also could say what we wanted without our parents, um, hearing what we said.

Then in college came AOL Instant Messenger. The same pleasure of America Online, but much simpler and with no cost. Again, we could chat with whomever we wanted behind the safety of our computer.

(Side note: My screen name was first KarateSteph27, then morphed into Fee00 by the late 90's)

Today, there is MySpace and Facebook, the most supreme computer communicative / stalking tools to this date. It is the America Online, AOL IM of today. High school and college kids have it made.

But I am 27. Certainly not in high school or college (kinda wish I was sometimes, though). Just like I was addicted to AOL chat rooms and IM message boards back in high school and college, I am a junkie. I love looking at people, who lives where, does what, single, married, gay, kids, etc.

As entertaining as it is, it is starting to torture me. I am beginning to compare myself to everyone around me. I know too much about too many people, and it's stressing me out. During my walk home from work today, I began to wonder: would I be so hard on myself if I only worried about myself versus stressing over why... (okay, this is going to be mean)... why the fat, silent loser in high school is happily married and I am not? Or why so-and-so has that job and makes that kind of money? Plus MySpace and Facebook have successfully ruined the surprise of the 10 Year Reunion.

With this said, I have considered deleting all profiles and memberships that I have.

But then I do not because then what would I do when I needed to find out if my 2004 Crush is still engaged to that stupid girl, or if I needed to find out more on that guy I met at the bar?? :)