Okay: I know politics is a dirty game. I’ve seen The Wire and My Fellow Americans, I know shit gets rough and you’ve gotta do what you’ve gotta do if you want to stay ahead. But goddamned if current Mayoral candidate Annise Parker just added me on fucking Facebook. And no, I didn’t go to junior high with her or something.

I have always had a less-than-blissful relationship with Facebook; I go through the trouble of looking at it every once in awhile but it’s always weirded me out. I recently reactivated it after deleting it early last year (err, sorry, “deactivating”… That’s right, you can’t delete stuff off of Facebook. They keep your information forever. It’s unsettling). Here’s what I said at the time:

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Please let us know why you are deactivating. (required)

I don't find Facebook useful.

Please explain further:

"Facebook is like a creepy and pointless videogame where people collect every person they've ever met, then waste their time spying on all the dumb bullshit they do all day. I don't care if some moron I went to high school with bought a new iPod, I don't want to play the vampire biting game, and I don't want people I don't care about to know what I'm up to if they're not going to bother asking me with words."

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I’ve since sheepishly reactivated my account, continuing my reluctant and spiteful limp into the 21st century, but if I’m just going to get spam friend requests from politicians and lord knows what else from now on, criminy. Is it sad that the next thing I see is actors promoting shitty movies, or just fucking Ronald McDonald or something adding me on Facebook?

I swear, if I wasn’t so addicted to quizzes telling me which Linkin Park song I would be (if I were a Linkin Park song rather than a flesh-and-blood human being) I would totally take down my account again.