Seems unlikely...

[bookzombie]

I've now realised that a new recurring dream has crept into my repertoire over the last year or two.

In this dream we are staying in a hotel, often in the US, and there is a convention of some kind going on. What we are doing during the time there varies but the recurring bit is this:

It is almost the end of the last day we are there and I turn to 

pennski and point out that we have not visited the dealers' room all the time we've been there and it is now too late!

Anyone who knows me at all will know that this never happens!

In other news I know have a FaceBook and I'm starting to acquire friends. Not sure quite what to do with it yet...

 

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[desperance.livejournal.com]

I also have a Facebook, and have no idea why. Somebody help...?

(Apparently all the cool kids use these social networks in preference to e-mail - again, I have no idea why, because e-mail is just so much simpler...)

[raanve]

I would personally prefer email, but a lot of my friends (and some of my family members) prefer social networking sites... so I'm on there too in order to make keeping in touch simpler for them.

Though I was anti-Facebook at first, I've since come to like noodling around with it. It makes a good time waster, and a lot of the new applications for Facebook can be sort of fun.

[littlebutfierce]

So far I've been resisting Facebook & MySpace (altho' I do have a Friendster page, but that's from waaaay back in the day & I don't really check it anymore). A friend of mine says she kind of got nudged into getting a MySpace b/c her friends post all their party invites on it & she had to stay connected. Luckily my friends don't do that (she's also a bit younger than me--early 20s; I think it's a generational thing in large part).

I like social networking so I can find/spy on people from my past, but once I've found them, I don't necessarily keep in touch w/them through whatever site. They're all terrible timesucks, & as evidenced by me having an LJ, I have enough of those already!

Chris--your recurring dream sounds more like a nightmare! No dealer's room!!!

[wrdnrd]

Chris--your recurring dream sounds more like a nightmare! No dealer's room!!!

I was going to say the very same thing! Not able to buy books whle at WisCon?! Perish the thought!! Geez, it'd be like dreaming that one had accidentally napped thru' the Tiptree Auction! :o Nooooooooo....!!!!

I've also resisted MySpace and Facebook, but i've (largely successfully) resisted most forms of social networking. I was finally dragged into LJ because it reached critical mass where i just knew too many people on it to avoid it any longer. Plus joining allowed me to view private posts, a feature i use a lot myself. I still don't use my LJ to blog because it's just not interesting to me as that sort of tool.

Something like Facebook *could* be tempting if i thought i could use it to track down old friends, but i can think of only 1 (maybe 2) people that could, perhaps, *maybe* be on Facebook, and there are vastly more efficient ways of getting in touch with these people (if i weren't so lazy...).

[bookzombie.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, it wasn't that there wasn't a dealers' room, it was that we didn't get to it!

[littlebutfierce]

Right--same sad situation for you two in your dream nightmare, tho'. ;)

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

It stands to reason that one always misses *something* at a convention, the dealer's room after a week? Even I go in, spendy or not.

So that email from you (i.e., [real name]) saying that you'd friended me on Facebook might have been real? Of course, I'm not actually ON Facebook...

[nwhyte]

I'm on Facebook; feel free to friend me!

[fuzzygabby.livejournal.com]

I'm a recent (as in the last couple of days) recruit to Facebook. I tried searching for you, but their search engine is crazy when looking for people with common names. Feel free to friend me and I'll friend you back.

[bookzombie.livejournal.com]

Okay, I have to admit to brain death here. I know I should now it, but what is your surname?!

[fuzzygabby.livejournal.com]

It's okay. We've only met a couple of times. It's Bate.

[annaoj.livejournal.com]

I've tried to find you on Facebook, but there's an awful lot of people with your name! Feel free to friend me there if you like. :)

[kicking-k.livejournal.com]

I like Facebook, in a not-as-good-as-LJ way. Though I mostly seem to use it for talking to my siblings and cousins. I know it's for people you already know, but that might be a bit narrow.