Let's Face It 07/12/2009
 

Well, I finally did it--bit the bullet, took the plunge, grabbed the bull by its horns, hmmm, let's see, can I possibly dig up any other cliched maxims to further augment the absolutely trivial announcement I'm about to make?

:-)

I joined Facebook. Ugh, I feel like I should be getting teen acne now, and braces. Truth is, I did it for a higher purpose rathyer than banal social networking; did it to facilitate the Green Fences Facebook Group, a new discussion board for the book, which I'm really excited about. But here we are, a couple of weeks later, and I'm being "friended" out to the whazoo with friends near and dear, as well as those I haven't spoken to in years. And I'm beginning to see that Facebook is probably a wonderful tie-in with last week's blogpost entitled There's a Monster In My Closet. I mean, this thing has all the potential of an ENORMOUS time-waster, with the added perk that one may staunchly justify the waste of time by citing all sorts of lofty benefits: socializing, reaching out, even "doing a chessed" (kind deed) by replying to poor Sara'le's post.

Sara'le Spiegel Shapiro has a broken fingernail.
       Dina Dunner: OMG, can u please do something FAST!
       Henny Shnitzeldorf: Happens all the time. Put on ice. BTW, are we getting together for lunch today or is it off cuz of the nail thing?
    Sara'le Spiegel Shapiro has now joined the Broken Fingernail Support Network
    Send [heart] to Sara'le!
    Poke Sara'le for being such a baby.

Anyway, enough poking fun at Facebook (have I just violated their Terms of Use Agreement ?). It's definitely a really cool tool for keeping in touch and it boasts a genius algorithm for matching potential "friends". I, for one, hope not to get sucked in; got too much going on in my little ol' life to add another time-eater. BUT, at least let me share with you the link for the new Green Fences Facebook Group where I'll be posting often and hopefully we'll have some fun with that!

It's here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=104085054867&ref=mf.

Anyone can join and I'd love to meet you there!


 


Comments

Meech
07/22/2009 09:10

NOOOO! facebook ruines your neshama!
I finally shut mine down and I feel so much better....you were my role model for not getting sucked into 21 centery technology...but now I'm disapointed

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Me
08/18/2009 11:09

I'm also a Facebook holdout, but seeing your discussion group makes me want to join! To respond to the post about your husband meeting some bochurim, I've been told by a date that the bochurim are into Green Fences too. It was great, although the ending left us confused....

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Riva link
08/19/2009 02:09

Meech--you may be onto something. My husband, a therapist, told me that he has clients who pay to get weaned off of their Facebook addiction. To be very honest, I'm not really so into FB; I just used it as a Green Fences marketing tool, but I don't see the huge appeal. Don't think my neshamah has been sullied, but now that Elul's coming around I'd better make sure! Sorry for letting you down ;-).

Me--Ach, I don't want to be the one to push you over the edge, especially after Meech's passionate blogpost. And about bochurim being into GF, I have some pretty funny other stories about that! The ending left you confused? Write me an email about your confusion; happy to respond!

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Me
08/20/2009 11:15

Don't worry, I'm not capitulating just yet. I'm starting to feel a little shut out from the world; maybe meech and I should start a "we don't have facebook and we're still people!" support group ;-).

About the ending, I was reading your posts downward and posted this before seeing that you posted about the ending in "Gotta Book!" I wrote my confusion there.

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