Soapbox

Friend Me!

Guess what I spend too much time doing?

Hi there honey- I"m home from work
I swear, my boss is such a jerk!
I really thought this day would never end.
I’m too tired to cook- do you want to go out?
There’s a new Thai place folks are talking about.
I’ll get my coat- but first, I"ve got to check in
With my Facebook friends… all my Facebook friends…

It started as a joke- I didn’t think there’d be
Much of anyone to be friends with me
Just wanted to know what the fuss was about, and then
Before I knew it, I had 87 friends!
Though some of them are just friends of friends… of friends
But they’re all talking and I"ve just got to chime in
With my Facebook friends… the party never ends…

It’s really quite amazing, all the friends I’ve made:
There’s a girl who sat beside me in the seventh grade,
My old lab partner from chemistry class
(If it wasn’t for him, I would never have passed)
A girl I met at summer camp years ago,
A guy who knows a girl my sister used to know…
I’m friends with the kids I used to babysit for
And my favorite clerk at the grocery store,
My highschool crush who barely knew I was alive,
A girl wh lived next door to me when I was five,
The teacher who directed my senior play,
A gal I used to work with but she moved away…
Hey wait- what’s this notification I see?
Grandma just friended me!
Now she’s my Facebook friend… old lady Facebook friend…

There’s always something happenin’ on my Facebook wall:
I see Frankie got a puppy and that’s not all,
My old roommate’s grading papers and Uncle Mike’s going out…
Linda’s daughter got a part in her school play
And Carol sent an Easter Egg to her friend Kay
Though why she threw a sheep at me, I still can’t figure out…
But she’s my Facebook friend… that’s what you do when you’re Facebook friends…

So I joined a group for people from my old high school
And another for a band I think is really cool
I signed a couple petitions- don’t recall what for.
There’s a group for people who hate their nose
And another for people with eleven toes
And I just became a "fan" of the California Condor…
Guess now we’re Facebook friends… endangered Facebook friends…

I’m always talking with my Facebook friends-
It’s a great big party where the fun never ends
(Hang on- I want to update my status again…)
It’s a place where everybody knows my name,
Though my profile picture rarely stays the same
My kids say they’re worried about all the time I spend…
…I think they just need some more Facebook friends!
and if it’s someone you don’t really like, you can pretend.
It’s so easy: all you do is click and then
They’re your Facebook friend…
Let’s be Facebook friends… I need more Facebook friends…

Hey- someone just sent me a flair!