The Evils of Facebook
This is a repost from 2011
There are some people that consider Facebook evil. Can you even imagine? There are some people that will not get on Facebook at all for fear that people might get their information and use it in the wrong way. I know that this can be true. However, I have found that Facebook can be fun! I have found more people that I have grown up with as well as distant cousins because of Facebook. We have a connection that we would not have without Facebook or the internet. Some of my acquaintances that I knew from school have now become my friends. When we were in school there were certain groups, the surfers, the kickers, the band geeks and the guys into sports to name a few. I don’t think too many people adventured into a different group too often. We stayed within our groups during high school. Now we are much older and wiser (cough) we do not have the stigma of having to stay in our different groups and we can adventure out and get to know people in a different way. This week I got to email back and forth someone that I actually lived next door to but we just never connected back when we were in high school. We discovered that we had the same birth date. I am exactly a year older than her! How cool is that! Just today I found a long lost friend that James and I knew back when we lived in Houston, Texas. We have not been in touch with this couple for almost 10 years but thanks to Facebook and the internet we can reconnect. Another fun thing that has happened is that I have been able to get back into my genealogy and find out more about the Eads name. I found some of my long lost very distant cousins on Facebook. We were able to find the connection that we needed to prove we are relatives. I think this is exciting. So all though there are people out there that say bad things about the internet and Facebook, I for one think it is awesome. We are able to connect to people we know and want to get to know. We are able to tell our loved ones that we love them and to have a Happy Birthday! How did we ever get by without Facebook?
Katy Moffitt
Our homepage: www.lightourworld.com
There are some people that consider Facebook evil. Can you even imagine? There are some people that will not get on Facebook at all for fear that people might get their information and use it in the wrong way. I know that this can be true. However, I have found that Facebook can be fun! I have found more people that I have grown up with as well as distant cousins because of Facebook. We have a connection that we would not have without Facebook or the internet. Some of my acquaintances that I knew from school have now become my friends. When we were in school there were certain groups, the surfers, the kickers, the band geeks and the guys into sports to name a few. I don’t think too many people adventured into a different group too often. We stayed within our groups during high school. Now we are much older and wiser (cough) we do not have the stigma of having to stay in our different groups and we can adventure out and get to know people in a different way. This week I got to email back and forth someone that I actually lived next door to but we just never connected back when we were in high school. We discovered that we had the same birth date. I am exactly a year older than her! How cool is that! Just today I found a long lost friend that James and I knew back when we lived in Houston, Texas. We have not been in touch with this couple for almost 10 years but thanks to Facebook and the internet we can reconnect. Another fun thing that has happened is that I have been able to get back into my genealogy and find out more about the Eads name. I found some of my long lost very distant cousins on Facebook. We were able to find the connection that we needed to prove we are relatives. I think this is exciting. So all though there are people out there that say bad things about the internet and Facebook, I for one think it is awesome. We are able to connect to people we know and want to get to know. We are able to tell our loved ones that we love them and to have a Happy Birthday! How did we ever get by without Facebook?
Katy Moffitt
Our homepage: www.lightourworld.com
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