Anyway, when I logged into facebook to see about an event (that was only to be found on the privileged pages of facebook), I noticed the invites in my “inbox” and I couldn’t say no to them (“them” meaning my friends, well… and my wife). I now have like a dozen virtual friends.

*BREAKING NEWS*
I couldn’t even finish this post without my brother congratulating me for getting inline.
*BREAKING NEWS*

Anyway, I like people. But I’d rather spend an hour chatting with a friend in the flesh, over lunch, then reading about what random people ate for breakfast. You think I’m kidding? I read over my wife’s shoulder when she’s logged into facebook. I know how lame it gets.

The other thing is (and most people will not understand this), I don’t like my personal information being held and managed by an outside party. Those relationships are mine. Many of then were carefully nurtured over many years. Putting them in a closed repository is fundamental broken (don’t tell me about an API – still fundamental broken). Those relationships had personal value to me before someone figured out how to leverage them to get new user sign-ups and to sell advertising. That’s why most of the conversations I have will be, in person, using personal email addresses, on the phone, over IRC, over IM (jabber only) or posted on my blog. Like I said, most of you don’t see it the way I do. Oh well.

So, yeah, micro-rant over. I’ll be on facebook from time to time, but I’ll mostly focus on the great things I have going in person, like my wonderful wife and kids that I see too little of.

Wait a minute! Shouldn’t I be working and not wasting time on my blog? Maybe, but at least I don’t require you to create an account to read about it :)

I really am a good guy and I don’t mean to sound grumpy. So, pull my blog’s feed, drop me a line (gabe@gundy.org), or give me a call. Let’s get together and talk shop, attend a conference, go to lunch, do some fishing, build something cool or just chill. Failing that, go ahead and add me to you facebook account. At least we’ll be able to share answers from the “What kind of cat would you be?” quiz ;)

I’m off to work. Let me know when the “next BIG thing” comes. Wish me luck and we’ll see you around :)