HealthiaCynthia

Here’s to Mental Health!

Filed under: Facebook.com, Mental Health, Emotional Wellbeing, Re-connection by healthiacynthia on July 23, 2007 12:06 pm


I'm sitting here at the computer with a little smile on my face.  Smile (well something like that).  I have recently joined up with the Internet's answer to the flesh-pressing schmoozy Networking clubs… Facebook.com  I had received a few invitations over time and originally had thought that it would be one of those frustrating experiences where you go to join up and then find that no one you know is using the service, and it costs $9.99 a month.  Not so!  It's a free service AND I know quite a few people who are drifting and meandering on through the ether– actually, I have 74 Facebook "Friends" and many more to come. hehehehe.

I have had a couple of really outstanding Facebook experiences.  For a few years I have been trying to track down a friend of mine who used to live in Vancouver's Lower Mainland when we did.  Then we fell out of connection….maybe, thirty years ago, when we moved to Saskatchewan.  Well, I looked up their surname on Facebook, and while I didn't actually find my friend, herself, I DID find her daughter.  And she hooked us up.  It turns out that my friend moved to England in 1999.  Our phone chat today seemed like the years hadn't even happened…. you know.  My other great thrill is in having all my family's "faces", along with my good friends', children of friends', and even RICK MERCER, all on my page at the same time.

I know that Facebook is really designed for the 20- and 30-somethings, but gosh, I'm enjoying it too!  Thanks kids!

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