Life

To build on my last post, I've noticed something more in recent.

Life seems to take any and all chances it can to snatch people away from us.

Whether it's to try us, to test us, by chance or by choice, or even by fate, it happens.

If you're lucky enough to have a chance to say goodbye to the loved one before they go, and can tell them how much you loved them, count your blessings.

If not, make sure you tell everyone you love, how much you care about them as often as you can.

-Ensure you cuddle your pets at every chance you get, as they're part of your family.
-See your friends at every opportunity. And make more whenever you can. Even if you only have a few close ones that you want to spend time with, make sure you do that, and see them often. Friends are equally as important as family, and life would probably be far worse without them.
-See/ring your grandparents as often as you can. They're amazing, and they send you chocolate and money at Christmas, Easter, and Birthdays. And you'll miss them when they're gone.
-Keep in touch with your wider family. Your cousins, your Aunts and Uncles, your distant relatives. They're still your family, whether you get on with them or not.
-Try your best to forgive your siblings. They're incredibly annoying, but remember you annoy them just as much back, and at some point in your life, they may be all you've got.
-Love your parents. Really. They gave you life. However you were conceived, you've got them to thank for your existence, if nothing else.

Appreciate everyone and everything around you. You never know when it all might be taken away. This message is repeated over and over again, and it still can't be stressed enough.

And so, I'm becoming more and more aware of how little time I've actually got on this Earth, and how the time I do have here needs to spent with my loved ones, enjoying the time I do have to the fullest extent.

Votes Please

So, I think I'm done with social networking, or at the very least, Facebook?

I'll start from the beginning;

-Girl adds Flausher on Facebook.

-Confused as to her identity, Flausher replies, quite rightly in my opinion, with a simple "Who is this? And if I've forgotten you, apologies..."

-Girl Replies "I saw your comments on a Facebook group, and thought they were funny, so thought I'd add you."

*Thoughts now running through Flausher's head*:
"I don't know this girl, but she seems to think someone making a few supposedly funny comments on Facebook acquits them to being a 'friend.' She has over 1000 of these other supposed 'friends' on here.
Should I use the term 'Facebook Whore'in my reply or is that non-PC and kind've offensive? yehuh. Bad Flausher...
What if she's actually a peadophile?"
(Just typed peadophile into google to double check spelling. Then realised I'd google'd peadophile. Fantastic.)

-Flausher Replies "Sorry, but I don't know you?"
*Nailed it!*

-Girl replies "wow ever heard of being nice to people?"

Flausher, after thinking he's won, is now losing to a 40 year old man in Facebook wars, so replies "Yea. But I don't know you! I try to keep my FB down to people I know is all. I don't mean to sound horrid, sorry if I come across that way, but there's no point me having millions of people on my FB who I don't speak to. I try to keep it to people I'm close to, friends, family, workmates, and so on. "
*Nailed it, for sure this time!*

-Girl replies "Well no one will want to speak to you with that attitude. I also had a question if its ok to fucking speak. In your pictures are you at a beach party"

-Flausher replies "...I'm afraid not?"

-Girl does not reply. I think she just wanted me to accept the damn friend request.

So, with this obsessive craze to get as many friends as possible on Facebook, and with the constant changes to Facebook, while they fail to repair the constant issues that plague it, I'm tempted to just give it up.

The light at the end of the tunnel, of course, is Buzz?
Google's doing Social Networking now. And they seem to do everything better. Search engines. Operating Systems. Browsers. Slides at your workplace. And now this.

Methinks I'll migrate.

But people, what're your opinions of Facebook? do we give up on it just yet?
It's not me disliking the principals, it's the annoyances I'm getting from it. Hopefully Buzz might be better...