Facebook

Growing up, I would have considered myself to have a lot of friends.  I had various "levels" of friends - some people I was much closer to - others I was friendly to - and yet, others, we just had some common bond or activity that made us friends.

The word "friends" is an interesting word.  I liken it to the word "love" in the English language.  We only have one word to describe the emotion - love - but that word can take on such a different meaning depending on the context that we use it.  Other languages have several different words for "love" - for example, 'I love my husband' is a different word than 'I love chocolate ice cream'.

I would imagine the word 'friend' is the same...

I love knowing that people that I care about - whether we were close friends or not or once were close friends and now are not - are still well and thriving in their lives.  Bring on social media.  I love, love, love social media - Twitter and Facebook are my two favorites.  I love Facebook for nothing more, than to "friend" people that I now know or once knew well, just to know that they are well and thriving in their lives.

I have 584 friends on Facebook (as of today).  These include work friends, neighbors, classmates (high school, college and graduate school), parents of my kids' friends, people I 'hang' with, relatives, acquaintances, church friends, etc.  I know everyone that I am friends with in person.  I say this last statement for my 6th graders - I teach them that you ONLY friend someone who you've met in person.  :)

What I like best about Facebook?  Finding someone with whom I've lost contact with over the years and getting 'friended'.  That happened to me today. 

Today I wish you to reconnect with an old friend.