My FB page is mine. It is not my professional site. LinkedIn provides one such site for professional presentation. I created my FB page as an effort to understand gaming applications built upon social networking sites. It provides a gaming interactive gateway to imaginary worlds. It has the added benefit as a place to post what I want to post. It is my journal, my blog, and my social connection to others with whom I became acquainted in the imaginary world of pretend personalities. I have few work acquaintances here (for good reason), but have also made great FB friends who will remain dear to me for life. I even have a few real friends for life that can always find me here, share the word, laugh and scream, or connect with me on any level. It is true that FB has mutated to be other things to other people who are forced to connect in new ways that may or may not be better than before. I see all the ads for places where you shop. I see when you are looking for a new lover. I see all those times when you ask others to vote on the picture of your grandchild. Your news is my news. Your wall interferes with, but also adds to my day. It is also becoming your source for additional income, your hosting tool for your parties, your photo album, your recipe book, your church, and your pulpit. If it really bothered me, you wouldn’t be reading this. Some of it is really great and I am thrilled to have the opportunity to explore and consider new points of view. This year I chose to eliminate some of those FB characters who didn’t fit in well with my FB reading pleasure. It was a conscious decision to reconstruct my FB to be even more of what I care to see on a daily basis. I shut off gaming news that doesn’t involve or interest me any longer. I flat out got rid of some who just piss me off too frequently. In addition, I follow news sources that interest me. Now, I invite you to consider doing the same. Let me point out, before you pull the plug on our connection, an important consideration. I still love who I love and care about you, no matter whether we are connected through FB or LinkedIn, in a personal or in a professional capacity. We all have different sides of our personality. This is where I let my hair down. This is where I can kill Mafia, spend millions of dollars on frivolous slots, post fake pictures, vent, throw liquor bottles at mirrors, or anything else I choose to do. It is my FB page. It is not “me.” It is as real as your thinking that the 22 times a day you post a blessing that we are to believe you actually got on your knees and prayed, or that you believed sending it to ten people in 15 minutes convinced God to make you all rich. It’s okay if your children are always clean and well dressed, your husband is the best in the whole world, and you never ever lose your cool. This is FB and you can be awesome and pretentious and wonderful all day long. It’s also okay if you are hurting, sick, angry, sad, or broken today. We only see what you want to put out on your page, but the side you decide to post today is not necessarily “you.” I understand that and will still think highly of you, will share other contact information with you, and will remember you. If this version of my FB page is really not meant for the FB image that you want to project, then please do us both a favor and fix the problem.
Posted on: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 17:40:39 +0000