After breaking up with it more than a year ago, I have had to get back on Facebook. It was NOT my choice. I rather enjoyed being oblivious to what ‘friends’ were doing and, if truth be told, I enjoyed the distinction of being one of the seemingly few in the world who were not on it. After all, I’ve always been inclined towards being different. 

With reluctance–kind of like how I approach getting into a swimming pool–I’ve been dipping into Facebook slowly. I don’t have many ‘friends’ this time around, and I’ve ‘unfollowed’ some of the ones I do have. I just don’t need to know all of that extraneous information; I have enough going on. 

What IS different about this second go-around with Facebook is that I’m ‘following’ people and topics that feed my head or lift me up. These days, I’m all about learning and growth. Grandma Moses said that “life is what you make it,” and I agree. So I’m following Facebook pages about health and food and creativity and nature…and these are inspiring to me! I find that after brief interludes with Facebook, I feel good. I don’t remember that my first go-around with Facebook made me feel that way usually.

As my reason for getting back on Facebook continues to solidify over the coming months, I’m going to learn a lot. Not because I want to. Because I have to. Just like I did when personal computers were just introduced in the 1980s. 

My husband, a computer systems analyst back then, would laugh at my complete lack of appreciation for the tremendous capability that was now at my fingertips. Literally! He would say, “I’m going to carry you, kicking and screaming, into the 21st century.”  

I’m getting there.