Email and Facebook and Blogging, Oh, My!

It is blowing me away these days how many ways there are to communicate without ever REALLY communicating with someone. We email instead of (or in addition to) calling or letter writing. Now, we facebook little notes instead of a honestly "respectable email." And then, here I am writing a "blog letter" to my mystery readers. Since people are only finding my blog quite by accident instead of by my invitation, I still feel pretty anonymous. Is that really a good thing?

But, I have to laugh at myself. Within the last couple of months, I became part of the Facebook community. Yes, I know, I feel it too...I am too old for such craziness. But, it is fun and many of my highschool and college friends are using Facebook as well. It has been such fun getting re-acquainted with old friends without a huge time committment. Considering the craziness of my life with a 4 year old with special needs, I need things that can be interrupted at a moment's notice!

So, I'm on Facebook. One of my friends posted a video of my son playing the guitar with her husband and "tagged" me with it so that we could watch it. (It is a REALLY cute video, by the way.) Well, her husband commented on the video, and I wanted to send him a return note thanking him for taking the time to jam with my little one. So...I tried to comment to him three different ways. You see, on facebook you can 1) comment on someone's status, 2) write on their wall, or 3) send a message viewable only by them. So...I tried, and tried, and tried. I couldn't write Matt a message at all! How could this be? Did he block me somehow? Did he limit my profile to only a few little things I could view about him? Am I not as cool as I thought I was? I know our friends, Sarah and Matt, are cute and cool 23 year olds, but...

Well, I wrote a cheeky yet breezy message to Sarah, Matt's wife, letting her know that I felt totally uncool because Matt had limited my ability to write him notes. She had the joy of returning my message with the information that......

Matt and I weren't even friends on Facebook!

........and the humiliation and embarrassment were HUGE. It never occured to me to check to see if we were facebook friends and not just real-life friends. I have laughed at myself for two days! My sweet yet honest husband informed me that I had taken six steps forward toward coolness by joining Facebook, but that I had taken four steps backwards by my blunder in front of cool 20-somethings. Oh, well. I guess I'll just have to settle for being cool in the eyes of my little one...for now!

Now to see if I can post a picture for your viewing.