facebook thoughts...

it's crazy at work lately.

facebook people everywhere.

there's this 23 Things that librarians were encouraged to complete to learning today's newest technologies, etc.

the two "Things", admittedly, that stuck with me most were facebook & blogging.

i'm now helping teach classes to the general public on both. 6 months ago i had absolutely no experience with either.

they're not hard. they're rather addicting in ways.

but with a few good friends joining facebook just in the past few weeks, now it appears to be all facebook all the time at work. which is fun and exciting and great to see folks all jazzed up about new technologies.

'did you get my flair??!!'

'hey, i wrote on your wall first!'

that kind of thing.

that said, it makes me crave the bigger picture.

real conversations.

real people.

real experiences away from a computer.

it's actually rather scary to think that while, yes it's fun to see what sally jane is doing right now, i'd rather go with her for a drink or coffee or something *in person*....if my real friendships start waning due to computers the blog and my facebook account stops.

maybe it's just a funk i'm in. but i really crave the 'in person' thing lately....i feel almost lame as i feel like i'm constantly asking friends 'what are you doing this weekend?' 'wanna go to xyz?'....maybe i'm too much of a planner. i have to give up the 'must plan everything' trait.

maybe that's way to open. or honest. maybe it's just that today was just like alexander's was from a long ago kids classic. it was a terrible horrible no go very bad day. let's hope tomorrow or the next day or even the one after that, is better. ~jd