During Christmas break my family and I had so much fun visiting loved ones. It was nice to sit and laugh with the people I miss. However on more than one occasion I was encouraged, poked, and prodded to join my profile with thousands of others on Facebook. It didn't start at Christmas however, it started with Hans gently encouraging, and hinting that he would like it if I joined facebook so that he could link me or reference me as his wife on his page. Well if you ask him now he'll probably tell you I have been stubborn in my cause. I don't want to join facebook. I can hardly keep up with my blog, and honeslty, I don't really like reading all the little status thoughts... "So and So is feeling very lonely right now..." Blaaahhh! I'll pass. It was a decision I made a while ago, so over Christmas when a few family members kept pushing (gently) I just ignored it. So what has changed? Not much.
Hans has recently set a goal to have 200 friends on Facebook. If I joined I could give him one more, and who knows if people find me, they may want to be his friend too.... and then I stopped myself. Facebook is not something I want to do. It is just something everyone is doing. Like having TeVo or wearing Uggs. Well I did look it up, Facebook, and I learned a bit about it. How it started, what it's really about. I think I am going to stand by my original decision. I never really enjoyed high school anyway. Maybe in the future I will give in and set myself up with a facebook page, but for right now I think I'll just stick to the blogosphere. So on that note, "Merilee still won't join facebook." No interventions please. :)
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I hate those comments about what they are doing right now on Facebook also. I am on Facebook though but only so people can find me if they need to. I don't do anything with my account. I only go onto it if I get an email saying I have an update or something. Don't let people peer pressure you into joining!! It isn't that great!
Stick to your guns merilee. I just joined and have found few old friends, but it was a lot of work and I do not plan on following it religiously. By the way, I felt that same way about blogging and now I love that I gave into the peer pressure.
Hi Merilee,
Its great to see you have a blog. Hans has a link to it on his status update on facebook. Very cute pictures of the kiddos.
I was the same way about facebook when I joined it like 4 years ago, it was only to be "cool" like the rest of the college kids. Some of my students freaked out when they saw me on there, I was too old to be in on pop culture like that. I can't believe how many people are on there now though. Its really fun to connect to people you used to know and see how things have gone in their life. But I like that kind of thing. If you don't like people knowing you or what is going on, it might not be the place you want to be. The nice thing though is that you can put whatever info you want, however little or much and check it whenever you want.
Blogging is hard and takes a lot of time. I think blogging is way harder than facebook. Facebook can be passive, people can find you and instigate conversation with you but with blogging, you have to take the initiative and figure out what topics you want to talk about. I do both only because I don't want all of facebook knowing everything. :)
It sure would be nice to know if "Merilee has the kids down for a nap and is enjoying a piece of spice cake." I don't presently know that about you. It would be nice to keep track of you. Just saying.
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