So, my marketing agent for the book nags me into getting on facebook...my goodness, what has she wrought?? I get home, open emails, and two pages of people begging me to be their friend, or maybe it's the other way around. I start looking and thinking "who ARE these people??" I recognize a few. My son said it was an automatic thing that it would pull from my email list. Still, I don't have a clue who some of these folks are, and I get a few messages back wondering who I am.
Time was, you'd sit on your porch and visit the neighbors, have a few friends at work, a few at church, and that was about it. We all did fine, it seems. Now, since there aren't many porches on houses anymore, someone has come up with this computer thing for friends. Man, oh, man, you can have hundreds of friends and never lay an eye on them. Social networking, they call it. And some of the things you see...."I bathed my cat Spritz today...got several deep scratches.." Like I need to know that! And people play tag, too. So and so got tagged today. Well, I never seen the likes of this....and I'm not that old yet.
Might take some doings...and a whole lot of patience.
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Pappy, you are that old!! Sorry...lol.
ReplyDeleteWe can change the setting on Facebook so you don't see all that stuff and you don't have to play tag or accept applications. Love, Your favorite daughter-in-law
Hi, John,
ReplyDeleteYou make a very good point. I just put up a Facebook a couple of months ago, but I have been on Myspace for a little over two years. It amazes me that I know some people I have met online better than I know my neighbors. That's a convicting thought, isn't it? But I am enjoying getting back in touch with people from different stages in my life. Everything has it's purpose, I suppose. We just have to find the balance.
God bless,
Tammy