I created a Facebook account several months ago because lots of people were talking about Facebook. I have several friends who just have to check their Facebook pages every day or more than once a day. I slowly but surely got into the application adding friends and relatives. It's so much fun viewing the pictures they post. My son-in-law's high school friends are adding pictures from when they were in the show choir. It's neat to see those name tags on the pictures and relate to the young men I know today. I haven't discovered any long lost friends through Facebook though several people I know have. I can see the potential...
I also began following my son or lurking. He didn't seem to realize how open his account was. He's 20. So, mom got to know more than she ought to as well. He wouldn't accept my invitation to be a friend though. Now he has removed his page entirely. I did mess around with uploading to Facebook from my phone trying to show my son what my new car looked like. It posted the pictures and announced it to all my friends. I didn't intend to share that news with everyone exactly that way. Learned the caution about what you post lesson with that.
I've become a fan of a couple of pages like Diet Coke and a member of some groups like my high school alumni group. I guess they're fan pages as well when I'm following TeachingBooks.net and The Library Corporation. I've been intrigued by how companies are creating pages as well as libraries. I got all excited last weekend while attending a scrapbooking webinar when they mentioned that more instructions were on the Facebook page. It took some searching, but I found it and now am a part of that group.
It's the connectivity in Facebook that keeps people coming back. I do have a bit of concern about mixing some of my personal information with my professional information. Nothing that bad or that I wouldn't tell you, but as one author said, I don't necessarily want my reader fan to know the same things as my personal friends.
There sure are a lot of people hooked on playing those silly games on there or creating lists. Fun, but I do wonder why I'm doing them at times. Two years from now it'll be interesting to see where Facebook is at.
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