I'm drawing the line

I'm not sure what I have against social networking sites, but I'm finally drawing the line. Currently I have a MySpace profile and a LinkedIn profile. I do not have a facebook account. In fact, I really don't even know what Facebook is, although I hear about it all the time. I refuse to signup for Facebook. I'm 32 years old, and I know how to communicate with people. I don't need to do it though a networking site, or prove I'm popular with it.

That said, I wonder what do people do on these sites? Personally, I use it to email back and forth with someone who's email address I've lost (and asked him and receieved 10 times, so I don't want to ask again), I read a few friends blogs on there, and that's about it. I'll look at pictures people post, etc too. I know that college kids post information about parties on there now (it's too much to actually put up fliers or pass the word on.

Granted, I can't remember the last time that I actually wrote a letter and put it in the mail. That's something who's time has passed I think. I use the mail for business communication and things like that, but for personal letters, not so much. I take that back. I remember writing letters to Susan while I was in college and she was home. They were many pages (legal pad) and of course handwritten. I'd often get the same from her. I'm not really sure why we stuck with writing back and forth. I do remember the initial flirting happening in the letters, and they just continued. I guess that the phone call from upstate NY to central NJ was just too expensive. I enjoyed writing and getting the letters though. It would really brighten my day when I got one. I'd rush from the mail room to my dorm room to read it because I was genuinely interested in what she had to write. And no, there was never anything racy or explicit in them. Perhaps if there was, things could have ended up differently (for the un-intiated, she ended up marrying a good friend of mine from college within a year of she and I breaking up. Since she was from my home town, they'd met through me and I'm pretty sure had been having an affair). I don't think I ever really did that with C. I think she was the first gf I had after talking on the phone and using email was the norm.

Anyway, if you're only on Facebook and want me to be in your social network, you're going to have to come to LinkedIn or MySpace. I'm NOT going to Facebook.