Guest Star

Our friend Eric has been salivating over this blog since its inception one month ago, and has repeatedly asked for a user name so he could post. Not being a legal Blogtari, I had to decline. But seeing as he practically lives in our apartment and spends his non-apartment time with my husband anyway, I guess he's an honorary member of the family.

Eric also deserves mucho propos for his determination to be published. Eric posted a comment to one of our Blogtari posts that is less of a comment and more of a stand-alone post. It's got all the grammatical prowess of a classic Blogtari post, and so I must share it with you all.

Thank you Eric for your readership, your spell check, your dedication to Facebook, your way with the ladies, and most importantly, thank you for making today's post so effortless. I really didn't have much time anyway.

Facebook Rebuttal - by Eric Blogtari

I just had a moment of online clarity. I have 202 friends on facebook and I've been checking out this new hip Facebook chat feature.

So, the last three times I've logged onto facebook, I have clicked the chat button to see who of my friends were available to converse with me. Was thinking of opening a few conversations with something to the effect of, "hey isn't this new chat thing cool, we are such pioneers." Sadly, however, at no point during these three occasions was anyone online who I had the slightest desire to converse with.

I think this must be a testament to the current state of being for social networking in which we have hundreds of friends from all points of life (including ex's, that random
guy you met that time at that networking event and were too nice to click "decline," and in some cases people you really don't know but thought there was a chance you were just being forgetful so you hit "accept" and then later realized you were right and don't know the person at all).

This is the equivalent of having 1,000 channels and 50 Ondemand channels and yet there is nothing on, except different, you know, because its actual people you're supposed to be friends with. Anyway, since I know no one is listening, I'm gonna go accept that latest request-- 203 friends may change everything.