Friends, I’m taking a leap of faith here.
I want to share a little something with you. And it may answer your question as to why I’ve started this blog… and rejoined Facebook.
As you may well know, I have been off of Facebook for a couple of years now. I took a break from social media (Okay, not Twitter. I like Twitter.) because I began to feel overwhelmed by the many, many details shared on my Facebook news feed. The feeling of losing a personal connection with my friends was gigantic. I no longer had the opportunity to be surprised when I saw a friend out and about and they told me their exciting news. All I could respond with was “Oh, yeah, I saw that on Facebook”, and that was the end of that. There were many, many reasons I left Facebook, not just the reason of feeling like I had lost real connections. Trying to explain them all would take days.
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