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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