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Introversion and extraversion is all about what takes energy to do and what gives you energy while doing. I’m a social person who naturally energizes when she’s alone – and, likewise, has to use energy to be around people. And, no, it’s not about just being tired after a fun night out. It’s a little more involved than that.

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Those who tell the stories rule society.

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It feels nice to be involved in things doesn’t it? Part of a movement or something. Swinging on Russell Brand’s chest hairs.

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My childhood best friend and I had it all figured out at age 5.

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When someone would go to write a status, the text box would read, “What is on your mind?”. Some people took that way too seriously.

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Your whole life will be nothing more than doing things for the sake of how they appear. You’ll get cynical. You’ll get off every one of those websites. You’ll find your way back. People won’t think you exist without them.

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My ambivalent relationship to Facebook says more about the complicated nature of human relationships than it does about the platform that is meant to facilitate connection between people. The “like” and “block” functions are not the problem. Status updates and tags are not the issue.

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11. Requesting and/or accepting the friend and acquaintance casualties lost during heated political disagreements over the past month or so.

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The only thing I really want to know from your Facebook is who you’re dating, where you went to school, and whether or not you got fat. I’m not interested in you’re paraphrased version of some article you read in The Atlantic last week.

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An email pops into my inbox. A stale alert informs me a particularly active friend has, yet again, posted to a group we both belong to. I quickly jump windows on the screen, sighing and eye rolling, to perform the ritualistic set of clicks simply to get that annoying little blue-boxed 1 to go away from the left column of my Facebook homepage.