wastebook...

or as some call it, facebook...is a waste. i join, because of an 'evil' friend of mine tempted me to, and i did. i really don't do anything with it, but i figure that it will become good outlet for my philosophical counseling gig, as soon as that gets up and running some more. however; this brings me to my point...

through facebook the 'group' as been created for hamadphilosophy.com (this being the link for my website, not facebook group). now through this group i intend to convey information regarding my 'public' philosophy meetings, services, and just get some discussions going through the site (to use that as a forum page). some people have joined the group; which is great. i posted a date for a meeting, and i run into a friend of mine who is also a member of the group; and he asked me what this meeting thing was about. i asked...don't you read what the group is about? i go on to explain about what the group is for, and what i 'do', as it were.

so do people just join groups on facebook, and not read what they are about? just to 'join' something. to become a part of something.

this happens on the bike shop group too. i wanted to get a ride together at ray's. so i posted the idea, and just one person responds. a friend of mine, so we just talked about it amongst ourselves.

but what then becomes the purpose of these groups, if no one reads them, contributes to them, understands them? why bother? it's like people just join these things to satisfy their own egoistic intentions. 'what's on your mind?' oh...i've got to tell everybody this...i'm going to bed. who cares? is it important? no.

egoistic intentions. self-gratifying.

if it works the way that it is intended to work; then bravo. until then; i'm not so sure...

this parlays into an ethics idea that i've been playing with, but more on that at a later date...

amitabha...