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Well, I have succumbed to all the pressure to sign on to Facebook. I can hardly believe myself, actually. And I am not sure exactly what happened to make me take the plunge, but I did sign on to Facebook last week. I just did it. I got the umpteen hundredth invitation to be someone’s friend on Facebook and I just did it. I said yes and signed on.

Now what is really amazing is that I am actually enjoying it! I have enjoyed connecting to people I haven’t heard from in ages. I am enjoying being able to carry on short conversations with people I love but don’t see often. I am loving the opportunity to deepen some casual friendships that I haven’t had time to develop through in-person contact. I am fascinated and surprised by the intimacy of some of the immediate-message moments that spring up. I love the comments friends make about the pictures I post on my wall, and I love being awakened to the reality of their lives as I look at their photos. I am shocked to find that I am really delighting in my Facebook experience!

I was expecting something superficial from Facebook and part of my resistance to joining was that I didn’t want to trivialize my life or the lives of others. Instead, I have found just the opposite. I am getting to know people at a deeper level, getting to know what they really think about things, and being introduced to the thoughts and opinions of so MANY different people! It’s a strange phenomenon, don’t you think?

And the young people are amazing! There is something about Facebook that makes them banter with me (an old lady of 62!) and also carry on serious conversations like they have never done with me face to face. What a hoot that is!

So I am eating my words. I am trying to do it graciously, but I am jumping up and down inside with the thrill of doing something “techy” and enjoying it! I don’t even mind admitting I was wrong! And I hope you will all sign up and be my friend on Facebook — right after you make a comment here on the blog!