Can I Be Your Friend?

Today, I took a big step. (I need to breathe in, breathe out. Phew.)

As is evident from my previous posts about privacy, I am a privacy nut. I just don’t want my personal information out there. And I don’t like what is out there. I dislike that when Google myself, the article about my hair makeover done by Washingtonian comes up before the fact that I volunteer as a million others have already done it?”, I now find myself needing to know: will you be my Friend?

I know that to my tech-savvy colleagues, being on Facebook isn’t a big deal. They were tweeting on their iPhone while riding the Metro this morning before I was putting one foot in front of the other. (It is just the way those crazy kids are!) While I am not part of the fastest growing demographic to join Facebook (35 years and older), I am part of a growing movement that, gosh darn it, just wants to feel connected in this fast-paced world of ours. For years, studies have shown that this connection is good for our health. While I don’t think I’ll be saying “yes” to strangers so that I can have 5,000 friends, I will use Facebook to keep up with the comings and goings of my friends (especially the one that is moving to the Virgin Islands for a year). As my life becomes busier (for reasons that only my friends know about), I want to keep up, see pictures, and know what people are up to – and if Facebook helps me do that, I can finally say, “Count me in.”

Lastly, if the White House is on Facebook, how bad can it be?

Posted by Monica Trucco on May 6, 2009 at 7:54 PM
in Privacy, Social Media

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Now I can spend another hour of my day sorting through a bunch of stuff from cyber space that lets me know who ate what and when. I am kind of picky about who I share what with. So any thing I would send out on that medium would be what I ate and with whom.

Posted by: Jim Stein | June 15, 2009 at 3:30 PM

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