“The RoseBouquet”

For the longest time I have resisted getting on Facebook. I have (no, I still belong, I guess) to another networking community, and it just got so time-consuming to keep up with seeing what snippets people had written, that I decided that to get on with my working career I would have to ignore them. I have not deleted my account there, but I only check the email related to that community once in a long while.


Last week I was frustrated when our SiteSell guru announced some videos by contest winners on Facebook. Naturally, I couldn’t go see them without an account there. So I sighed deeply, created a new email just for this, and made sure that the flood of emails that would come in would not show up in my KMail where I normally deal with incoming emails from about 24 addresses. I have trouble keeping up with those, and my good friends are kind enough to be understanding that sometimes it takes me a week or more to get to them, because I’m so busy just dealing with business and client emails first.


At least I should be able to follow a link when it seems there is something important to see on Facebook.

Well, then the very next day I was calling my cousin Phil and his wife Barbara because his mother had died, and they urged me to see their family photos on Facebook. Wow! had their kids ever grown up. Even their grandkids were not babies any more!

Before I knew it I spied small photos of some other relatives’ names that I recognized, so I decided to “add” them to my friends list, or invite them to be on my list. Especially Saturday night when I was wrestling with a computer problem at home, I got distracted as I tried to hunt for a contact who might have some answers to help me. Just as I’d feared, one thing leads to another on Facebook.

Now I invest a lot of time in this RoseBouquet. I can’t keep up with my 8 websites, and all my client and mission work if I start corresponding with everyone I know on an individual basis. So I resolved some years ago, that I would schedule in Tuesday mornings to write a four-part blog and publish it not only as a blog, but an ezine, that can be subscribed to for free, and also as an RSS feed. The latter is touted as a great way to promote one’s website and blog.

This morning I checked to see how many “friends” I have on Facebook. What 13 already? Hmm… It’s nice to see what some relatives are up to that I haven’t heard from in ages, but is this thing going to run away with me and re-organize my life? I confess, I’m a bit nervous about this.