Last night, my beautiful wife Tricia came up the stairs from our office with a perplexed look and an even more vexing comment, “so, Facebook is nothing more than email that everyone can read … right?”
The next hour was me on my perennial soapbox of digital connectivity and all of the possibilities for faith communities, et al … it was brilliant. I even made a chart. I was AMAZING.
So, with her newly acquired knowledge she said, “so, Facebook is nothing more than email that everyone can read … right?”
I found myself asking myself a similar – although altogether conceptually different – question, “when is it okay to not follow (or out and out just block) someone who is following you?”
Ignoring Someone Is Wrong
Last week, someone got into a Facebook conversation with me that I had no real interest in keeping up with. So, I just ignored the message. HOWEVER, if I were to do that in real life, don’t you think that would be the rudest possible thing I could do? How do you politely tell someone, I’m not that interested in what you’re talking about?
Are You “Working” or being “Worked”
To be honest, I have three email addresses to keep up with. A Facebook wall and inbox. A Twitter account. A Blog. IM and Skype. And that doesn’t even take into account my three voicemail boxes (mobile, office and home). God forbid someone send me something via snail mail … to either location.
I wonder how much more “connected” we are today with all of this at our fingertips. Are we really connected or just net-worked?
Forgive me if I don’t follow you on Twitter or add another Facebook application or subscribe to your blog. It’s not that I’m so important and busy or that you’re not important. I hope that doesn’t convey the way I feel about you. Please don’t feel that way.
If you ask me to go to Chipotle and I say “no”, then you should get that feeling. 
cheers,
bc
Your office at Chipotle awaits for you here in CO! I tried to keep it warm while you were gone…don’t mind the shoe marks on the table.