Facebook

I started with Facebook to help keep track of my son's Lacrosse team. He plays for UNL so I did this out of let's say, necessity. After over a year being on Facebook on a limited basis, lots of doors have opened for me! All of the sudden I'm friends with my brother and my younger son who now has to use it in high school. That led me to finding a long lost friend of mine I used to work with at First Data Resources back in the day. She was on my brother's page as one of his friends (they graduated from Westside the same year). So, I sent her a friend request yesterday and today, I not only get a positive response from her, I also get 2 friend requests from girls I worked with at FDR who were HER friends listed on Facebook and saw my friend request! It was so exciting and I'm thinking, "Oh geeze, now THIS is fun! It was like a chain reaction! How great it is to find long lost people in your life that meant something to you!" Now we are all hooking up Friday night; amazing! I also went on my sister's page, she's in Jacksonville, and I sent a friend request to her as well. I saw people on her page that I recognized. This truly is a great way to reconnect with people. Unlike blogging, which I think encourages people to become self absorbed, Facebook is a way to look outside yourself. To look at other people's lives through their pictures, mostly, and reconnect.