WHY NOT HAVING A FACEBOOK SUCKS.

Just got back from a presscon with "noted fashion photographer" Nigel Barker and "runway coach diva extraordinaire" Miss J. Alexander (I can hear Tyra's voice ringing in my ears) and I was talking with our art director... nay, SENIOR ART DIRECTOR, Ben about what we'd ask them, if ever... and he said I should ask them if they had a friendster and that just opened up our whole discussion (ok more like another epiphany) about why it sucks to NOT have a facebook. I said it was too late for me, I guess, and that maybe I'll just join the next big thing on the internet once facebook is phased out but for now, it just sucks when:

a.) a lot of contests and promos require you to log on to facebook, LIKE their facebook page, and submit entries there. I mean, like... what the fuck right? only people with facebooks can join basically? that's so unfair. whatever happened to email?

b.) apparently, "googling" someone now is obsolete ---- so if you wanna look for somebody, you gotta "facebook" them or check them on twitter or something (which actually proved pretty effective cuz last week, I emailed TJ Manotoc some questions cuz he said it was cool and then he never got back to me so I tried calling him, and his phone wasn't ringing and I'm thinking, what the fuck right? did he fall off the face of the earth? so i had our assistant "facebook" / twitter his ass and that's when we found out he'd tweeted about how his sim card was all busted. but i mean, he doesn't need a sim to check his email. I don't get it.

c.) can somebody tell me what the difference between a "friend" and a "facebook friend" is cuz I heard it again during the press conference and this girl was saying something about how this guy was her "facebook friend" and I'm thinking, WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN??? so maybe I guess I could count that as something that would suck ---- the fact that I don't have these special "facebook friends" ---- if only i knew exactly what made them so different that they had to be called a facebook friend rather than just a friend. Is it like... an online friend? Like a more sophisticated way to label a chat buddy. Like on IRC back in the day? Hahahahaha, IRC. =P

d.) there's only so much I can do on the internet sometimes and seeing my colleagues so caught up in their facebooks or my friends so engrossed in their blackberrys makes me feel so left out... that's why I just stick to watching CSI, Law & Order, and Bones reruns all by my lonesome.

e.) i'm so clever and no one knows it and that's why my little sister asks me for clever status messages or quotes me on the dumb shit i say. but she's kind enough to let me live vicariously through her facebook. (thanks roni!)

f.) people post party invites on facebook. does that make me a gate crasher for not RSVP-ing on facebook?

and the worst part about NOT having a facebook...

g.) since I don't have a facebook, i can't link any of my online posts (from the website) to our Gadgets facebook page so I usually just ask a colleague to do it for me... but when they're ALL GONE, there's no way for me to do it. Though I mean, I made my own husband an administrator... but I guess you can say it's such a hassle on other people.

OH. WELL.

Guess I should've just moved to tumblr.

Then again, I don't like how anyone can just leave anonymous comments on your posts and I'm sensitive like that (God that poor girl, Tricia Gosiengtian character... must've been hurtful to have so many people to berate her like that.) So yeah. Guess I'm staying here.

Maybe one day, I'll figure out how to shop online and really utilize the shit out of this multiply. =)