Recently some of my anti facebook friends decided to take a ride on the wild side and join facebook. I know the culture shock of it all can be quite overwhelming to some. All of a sudden people you haven't seen or spoken to in 20 years can easily contact you and invite you to be your friend... To accept or ignore... That entirely is a whole other post.
So say you accept the friendships... now people can peak into your world and you can peak into theirs, you can contact people on a whim easily without digging up an e-mail address, you can make new business contacts with people you knew a long time ago but lost touch with, you can rekindle old friendships and so on and so forth. There is a lot of criticism about facebook but I really don't see the big deal. I generally ignore whomever I have no desire to reconnect with and the people who I have friended I feel good knowing that I can contact quickly. I generally ignore the mass invites for other stuff such as the "good karma" or "give hugs" blah, blah, blah... But to be honest facebook has helped us a lot. For example, an old friend from high school is in his family's pediatric home nursing business in NJ... Hello could that be any more convenient for us right now. Another friend I recently found out does home entertainment and surveillance installment... Could come in handy with the new house... Nanny cam anyone... Especially with the falling economy its nice to know you have access to so many "friends" to maybe reach out to for potential job opportunities. I also like that I get to keep in contact with my fam from Israel, friends in Florida, Scott's family, etc... I mean really who do I have time to call and send individual e-mails to. The day goes by so fast and your intentions are to call this one and that one but you get distracted and poof out of your head. However... when I log on to facebook and that person's face or name pop up on my home page I can say hey, oh yeah... I meant to call that one... let me send a quick hello and let them know I'm thinking of them. Easy peasy lemon squeezy... ANd there you have it my take on facebook. No big deal, no harm no foul...
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I totally agree! It's also kinda fun!! Hope all are well.
Kisses..Lainie
You know I resisted for a long time. It's been quite the fun time for me and it is nice to reconnect so quickly or chat it up with my girlfriend in London online. I agree -- plus you get to take a walk down memory lane. It remember distinctly why I didn't end up with my exes...it's all there on their status updates!
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