Facebook

I have avoided joining this online friendship network for a long time. I have received pressure (albeit light pressure) from lots of friends and family to join. I've weighed the pros and cons. I've had people who told me they liked it because they could reconnect with some old friends. I know lots of people that share their pictures through this format. I can see it has value. I like to think that I embrace technology and it's advances, but how much technology and ways to communicate do we need? I watched a chick flick with my sister (more than a few months ago) and my favorite part was when Drew Barrymore's character says, "I had this guy leave me a voicemail at work, so I called him at home, and then he emailed me to my blackberry, then I texted his cell, and now you just have to go around checking all these different portals just to get rejected by seven different technologies. It's exhausting." I just love that part. It makes me laugh. Anders told me I shouldn't join because someone I don't know could ask to be friends with me and that would be dangerous. I feel like I'm a private person and somehow I felt like if I joined facebook I was putting myself too much "out there". But, I joined, so now you can all be my facebook friends!