It kinda bugs me when people refuse to "give into peer pressure" and get a facebook page. It has only been very recently that I just wished everyone I knew had a facebook page because it's actually can be more helpful than harmful. Yeah, it can get addicting sometime. I went through times like that. I think I blogged about this before. I'm having flashbacks, but here are some recent examples about how great facebook is.
1. I love to google stuff. Googling a question that I have then finding an answer makes me feel smart, but it also takes a lot of time because I have to read the same thing on 4 or 5 different websites before I believe that it's true. You know how much time that takes! Too long when ya got 2 kids under 2. When Jocelyn was first born, she was colicky. Posted it on facebook asking for advice, went to bed, then I woke up in the morning and had a billion different answers. It was pretty awesome.
2. Our pipes froze when the temps dropped in the middle of the night to the negative teens. Did I know what to do? No. Posted it on facebook and within 30 minutes, 4 people from my ward called to see if they could help, and my home teacher was already over fixing the problem! First of all, I have a great ward, and second, I was able to shower and brush my teeth by noon! Thanks facebook.
3. Someone in my ward just adopted a baby, but it was totally a surprise. She doesn't have any kids so she didn't have any kids stuff and I think by the time she found out that she was getting and actually having the baby didn't give her time to go out and buy stuff. Someone made a group on facebook to get this lady baby stuff and she got the baby shower stuff she needed without the baby shower. Just a few years ago, that would have taken many phone calls and obviously too much work and human to human communication for it to be successful.
I'm not one that posts a bunch of stuff unless I need to. But I do like to find out who is having children or getting married without actually talking to them. I wish we could utilize it a little better. For example, if my ward could have a facebook group, we could have all the activities posted and links to the lessons at church on Sunday. See. It's pretty awesome. Yeah, I agree that it pushes some people into reclusive activity, but you gotta get bored of facebook stalking people sometime. Right?
It's true--I feel the same way in that I think Facebook can be a useful tool (especially for keeping up with my GINORMOUS extended family), but it can definitely be a time-waster. I think as long as it's used wisely (and not for posts like "I just had a bagel...mmmm!"), then it's great!! I just wish I had a way to sift out all the over-users on my feed. Any tips?
ReplyDeleteOver-user solutions? I have no idea. I do have a lot of people that I block their feeds, but I'm still interested in what is going on i their life. I don't have the ginormous extended family that you have, but I just love that I can keep in contact with a lot of people from Taiwan.
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