Facebook

This week I finally broke down and signed up for Facebook. My close friend Mel McGowan told me that it was the only way we could consistently keep in touch. Mel travels a lot and he's been urging me to join facebook for about six months now. Here's what I've learned in the my 24 hours on Facebook:

1. It's scary how they are able to connect you with people you haven't seen in years. When I signed up they suggested potential friends and it automatically listed acquaintances, friends, people from churches I have worked at, and people I went to High School with. This was even before I entered my personal information. How do they know to suggest parents from my son's soccer team? Maybe I am paranoid, but that was amazing.

2. It's a great way to connect with people and encourage them. In the past 24 hours I've already heard several prayer requests and details about friends here at New Song that I otherwise would not have known about. What a cool way to hear about people that I care about.

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3. Some of my "friends" are competing for the most "facebook friends" on their list. I have a couple of people on my list who have well over a thousand "friends" of their own. One even has over 2,000 facebook friends. How do you have that many close friends?

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4. Last night, I prayed about who God might want me to connect with and encourage. God put the name of someone I have been trying to reach for awhile and sure enough, they are on Facebook. I wrote a note and I am praying that God uses the connection to encourage them in their walk with Christ.

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5. The ads are weird! We are advertising for New Song on Facebook and I had heard about the ads being strange, but wow! Right now on my facebook page are ads titled, "Want Six Pack Abs?" and "Animate Yourself." I bet if I got a cartoon animation of myself, they could draw six pack abs on me and make it like a two for one deal.

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6. Facebook is addicting. I had fun looking for friends last night and several sent me warning messages like, "Beware, you have to be able to walk away from facebook," and "Watch out it's addicting." Is there a group called Facebook Anonymous? Maybe I could start one, write a self help book, and make a lot of money.

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7. Some people are very transparent and post every little detail of their day. (I think they call that TMI)? Do we need to know every (and I mean every) detail of someones life? I think they have Twitter for that, but since I am new maybe I am just getting warmed up and I'll be posting more details by next weekend.

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8. Susan has more friends than me, but who is counting? :)