Well today is the day that I finally jumped into the social media pool. After years of hearing "you should really get Facebook", I finally did. It was an birthday present to myself, I had come to realize that the world is not going to start spinning backwards.
Letter writing has been replaced by email
Email has been replaced with texting
Texting has been replaced with Facebook posts.
My only hope of trying to stay connected to Tennessee is to hop on in the Facebook pool. I have to admit, signing up felt more like drinking the Kool-Aid. Not only do you have to provide information, you have to change every setting so that random strangers can't invade your world. It was exhausting. It is finally set up and I requested one friend. My best friend and roommate from college. The one who (unlike other friends) doesn't just assume that being friends with my husband on Facebook is enough connection to keep us together. So I friend requested her then proceeded to send her a text to see if I did it right. I didn't (big shock) I am beginning to be annoyed with it already!
I am going to give it a month. May is my birthday month so I will test the waters and see if at the end of 31 days I am diving into the Facebook pool head first or if I am still poking my big toe in the water to see if I can survive the temperature. I guess I should set some guidelines to see if the Facebook world is for me.
The average Facebook user statistics according to The Social Skinny states that
Americans long on for 1-30 minutes through out the day
Typical Facebook users have 130 friends
50% log on daily
So those will be my tests. At the end of May am I creeping up toward 130 friends, do I log on each day and spend between 1-30 minutes on Facebook. If not, then maybe the social media scene is not for me. We will see. . . .
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