{"id":34378,"date":"2011-05-04T09:05:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T13:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/34378\/real-world-2\/"},"modified":"2011-05-04T09:05:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T13:05:10","slug":"real-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/34378\/real-world-2\/","title":{"rendered":"but this is not the real world"},"content":{"rendered":"

before the advent of cyber-space, people made friends in lotsa different ways…maybe one of your friends had a friend you didn’t know…the two of you were introduced, you either liked them or not; or maybe it took awhile to like them…or maybe you liked them right away but changed your mind after getting to know them…but that was then…now with social networks, having lotsa cyber-friends is, to some people, more important than the quality of those friendships…I’m thinking about this MOSTLY because I got a friend request on the OTHER FB from someone I just don’t like all that much…I’m not totally sure he likes ME, but he seems to appreciate my Musicianship…To get semi-technical, he doesn’t seem to care about giving the people what they want…I like traditional Country Music, and I know a lot of those songs (mostly because of radio–and Mom) but this guy doesn’t play “the Classics”, despite his alleged genetic connection to Johnny Cash…I’ve shared a stage with him a few times, it’s like pulling teeth to get him to play even one song the audience will know…That’s HIS Ego at work–“nobody tells ME what to do…” That attitude is OK if you’ve earned it, but even then ya should remember that’s a gift from THE AUDIENCE…I probably will friend him, ‘cos I’m a wuss…which leads me to–<\/span><\/p>\n

With maybe one exception, I don’t know any of my Friendburst friends, unless they’re hiding behind an alias and\/or using someone else’s photo as their profile pic…They (you) know me way better than I know you…I hardly read any other blogs, and 2) I hardly store anything internally, although I’m slowly learning that it’s OK to keep quiet; in fact it’s a good idea more often than not…let’s be honest, in the real world, you might not like me at all and vice versa…the thing I sometimes wrestle with is the idea that I would\/do like you until I start to suspect that you don’t like me–that could be paranoia or reality…Right this minute I feel as though ya don’t have to like me, just be civil…I suspect some of my friends merely tolerate me–that’s OK, the feeling is mutual…I just found out that the wife of one of my so-called “friends” is a “birther”–I don’t understand that a fuckin’ bit…what I may have learned from the disclosure of this information is DON’T DISCUSS POLITICS…from now on (if it’s not too late) that subject is OFF THE TABLE as far as I’m concerned…one of the things I feel guilty about is the idea that someone would genuinely like me, but I’m not all that fond of them…(sigh) that’s just Life I guess…I guess I friended most of my Friendburst friends because it did me no harm…I’m kinda curious why they friended me; maybe some of the more intuitive folks can actually see past the chaos on the surface…for that I’m grateful…and like I’ve said before, if you’re the least bit entertained or somehow enlightened by my ramblings, fine…<\/span><\/p>\n

Still feeling crummy (going out last night was just plain stupid) so I should\/will be back in bed by Noon I think…
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before the advent of cyber-space, people made friends in lotsa different ways…maybe one of your friends had a friend you didn’t know…the two of you were introduced, you either liked them or not; or maybe it took awhile to like them…or maybe you liked them right away but changed your mind after getting to know […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}