Twitter is from Mars, Facebook is from Venus

I have tried to NOT make fun of twitter, for fear of putting bad juju out into the universe, but I can no longer hold my tongue. Twitter is the weirdest social media site I’ve ever experienced. And I’ve experienced two. First of all, there’s this weird hierarchy established by when you first JOINED twitter, which is […]

My Facebook Friendship Comes with a Warning

Every time someone sends me a friend request, I’m filled with a sense of dread. Why? Because I’m a lot to take on Facebook, and — for some people, like the twenty-something, best friend of my sister’s step-son — a friendship with me is Not A Good Fit. So, I started writing warnings to friend […]

The Unfriending Exit Interview

Hello! You’ve unfriended me and now that I’m over the “Screw you! I didn’t even like you that much in high school!” phase, I’d really like to  improve myself. But I need your help. So — please — let me know  how I can make myself a better Facebook friend by completing this brief exit […]

The People-Who-Suck-On Facebook’s Guide to Facebook — The Unofficial Biography

For  years I would watch many of my Facebook friends doing things on Facebook, but refusing to connect with me. I figured they just didn’t like me. That made me wonder why Facebook refers to them as friends, since people who ignore me and blatantly don’t like me seem more like family. Then I realized […]

The Like

Ahhhh, the Facebook “Like.” That little blue link that says so much and so nothing at the same time. The word itself —  like — is so completely inadequate. For example, in 7th grade, when you begin to like boys for the first time, you have to use the word twice to even imply your […]

The 3 Faces of Cath-y-erine Bardagy Winchild

The other day someone pointed out how different my online self is from my 3-dimensional self. My online self is sassy, bitchy and foul-mouthed; whereas, my 3-D self is cautious, kind and foul-mouthed (some things carry over). Parenthetically, it should be noted that my online self and 3-D self tend to merge after two potato […]

Not Owning It

I recently connected with an old friend who’d gone back to our hometown for Thanksgiving. The friend told me how my name came up in conversations about Facebook, and I was somewhat surprised to hear that the talk was not, CBW’s posts are hysterical, adorable and of the perfect quantity! Suffice it to say, what […]

The Anatomy of an Unfriending

I was going to call this post “The Anatomy of the Unfriending of a Douchebag,” but then I realized I would never get Freshly Pressed. with that kind of “bad stuff [that] includes…adult/mature content.” So, I’ll just call the guy I unfriended, D. For Douchebag. I first found D on Facebook, writing something very funny […]

Facebook Love

Recently someone said to me, “It’s just Facebook, Cath.” To me, implying: It’s not real life; it’s high school. Uh, helloooooooooooo! Real life isn’t really real life. Real life is high school. Facebook? Facebook is merely life’s wonderful yearbook. Facebook Haters: BE WARNED! I’m about to throw a few more slow burning logs on the […]

Facebook Evolution

Way back in the early 2009s, I was a Facebook scrooge. I made fun of my husband when he’d type something into the old “What are you doing right now?” field. I’d create an account, panic, then shut it down. All those off-center profile pictures. The whole thing scared the ba-jigsaw puzzle out of me. Then […]