Facebook never got back to me. I’m pretty sure it was clearly the harshest dumping I’ve ever been through. Facebook had no sympathy. Facebook has already moved on.
So, I did this crazy thing and I checked out the rules. Novel idea, right? The thing is, I am technologically stunted. I am always the last person to catch on to new fads, and when I do it usually takes me quite a while to figure out (you should have seen me as I tried to learn how to use my iphone!) I know there are a lot of people in this world who just pick new things up right away; I am not one of them. If it has to do with technology, it takes me some time.
And I liked Facebook. I liked the connections it allowed me to make.
So, after doing some reading I set up a new page. If you were a friend before and would like to do so, you can become a friend again (you can get there through the link in my right side bar too). Hopefully I won't do anything to incur the wrath of Facebook this time.
You would think they would have compassion for my ignorance, but whatever!
As I was doing this though, I also started to look at Twitter. I’ve heard so much about it, but I honestly have had no interest. The idea of condensing myself to 140 characters is almost painful for me to think about. I am one of those people who sends 5 text messages to get her point across. I don’t like text speak, and I don’t care if my refusal to use it means the person getting my texts has to read a novel on their phones.
I’m a rebel like that.
But then I heard a woman talking about tweeting through her labor and I thought that was possibly the coolest idea I had ever heard of (yes, I’m creepy like that! If I end up being blessed with the chance to go through labor, I want to be able to document it in every way imaginable!) So, I set up Twitter (@sifinalaska) – solely with the purpose in mind of tweeting through labor.
I know I’m a kook.
I was feeling very behind technologically speaking though – why not further immerse myself into the internet ether?
Is it OK if I admit that I don’t understand why all these different technologies seem to do exactly the same thing (connect people) just in slightly different ways? Why do we need it all? Whatever happened to a good old fashioned e-mail?
Or even better: Snail mail. I can’t tell you how giddy I still get when I receive a card in the mail when I least expect it.
I should admit that doing both of these things took me all day. ALL DAY. I have 25 more get your ex back articles to write (have I mentioned how much I am loving doing freelance work? I am having so much fun with some of these articles!), I still need to write my chapter for this week, and I’ve been getting sucked back into the community all day. I would say I need to step away from the computer and focus on my work, but since my work needs to be done on the computer… that may be difficult.
Maybe I should Tweet about it?
ADSPACE
