of Facebook. I'm still trying to figure out how to upload my contacts list so I can 'friend' people. No, I don't plan to indiscriminately send emails to God and everyone on my list, but I do want to set up some sort of list that has meaning to me.
I decided to join Facebook for two reason: networking and family.
Networking: I want to have another form of contact with writer friends. And when I was requested to friend two of my old chapters mates (a RWA chapter I didn't rejoin this year), I thought this might be a good way to keep in touch since I'm no longer on their yahoo loop. Plus meeting new writer friends or old high school classmates does have its draws. But I hate to say it, just because there's a reason I haven't kept in touch with my old HS classmates, it doesn't mean I'm not curious as to what happened to some of them.
Family: I was talking to my SIL on the phone last Friday, when her daughter came home and checked her Facebook account. It turns out another niece had been in D.C. for a conference and was in a train wreck--not injured. I found out about this quicker than the tried and true method of . . . Grandma. My mother (87) is the glue that keeps this family together. Nine of us kids are spread across the US with one in Japan, and of course, we are wrapped up in our own lives so we don't communicate as often as we should. I have their email accounts, but the last time I emailed the group was when Mom had a heart attack a couple of years ago. I do realize that I'll probably only have contact with the younger members of the family, but I think we should all keep in touch one way or another.
Today, I'll try to figure out how to 'friend' people, but I really need to get moving on finishing my picture book and editing my middle grade novel. There's no timeline on the PB, but the Delacorte Yearling contest deadline is looming at the end of June, and the kiddo is out of school at the end of May and there goes my window of opportunity!
Write on!
I'll friend you -- unless I did already and forgot. lol
ReplyDeleteI go on Facebook maybe once a day and don't spend a lot of time there. I don't even comment every day if I haven't done anything interesting. Same with Twitter. But I'll read other people's tweets and Facebook comments, and maybe I'll reply. Or maybe not. lol
Thanks Edie!
ReplyDeleteOnce I figure out how to do the friending thing, I'll send you an email!
I don't want to spend a huge amount of time on it today because I need to get my MG novel going if I want to turn it in before the contest deadline!
The Kool-Aid - who forced your mouth open and forced you to drink? You've gone to the dark side.
ReplyDeleteI'm fighting it, but if I do, I'll probably use my married name and not my writer pen name so no one will know me there! BRAWAHAHAHA
Yeah, I've crossed over. :-) I think I was pushed over the edge when one niece found out about another niece being in a train wreck in DC. I happened to be on the phone with SIL when this happened. One week later to my usual information source--Grandma--told me about it.
ReplyDeleteThere are so many of us that this might be the only way we can keep tabs on each other.
I won't join facebook but I'll follow yer blog!
ReplyDeleteJody
JODY!!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad you came by to visit. . . and correct my grammar. :-( Talk about a major oopsie!
Yeah,I've crossed over to the dark side.
I've had a facebook account for a bit- but didn't do anything with it. Until you invited me, then I realized I had a lot of friends there. I also have a myspace. And they can be time consuming!! hehe But look at it this way-- it's networking! And that can't be a bad thing. :)
ReplyDeleteNetworking--good
ReplyDeleteTime suck--bad
Treat yourself to blog/facebook hopping only AFTER you've written your daily pages.
Hm, Maybe I need to take my own advice. Again.