Me on Facebook?
I am a slow adopter of new technology. My last (and first) blog posting was on the wonders of Capstrat's Intranet and Wiki. I now ponder the wonders of Facebook.
A few days ago, my sister, also a forty something CPA, admitted she had a Facebook account. My mother was threatening to join. At Capstrat’s February staff meeting, our president made reference to updating her postings over the weekend.
Why would I need to be on Facebook? My only justifiable reason was to check up on my daughter and her 995 closest "friends". My daughter recently informed me, "You don't know what being friends means." Apparently her definition is similar to what I would call an acquaintance, or an acquaintance of an acquaintance.
Although I don't understand why you would want all those folks knowing your every coming and going, I am slowly warming to the idea of joining Facebook. The chatter keeps rising - from my teenager to my family, from my friends to my co-workers. Maybe my Mom can tell me how to set it up.
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Haha. Awesome. Just think, you could join the AICPA Facebook Group! Then start a Twitter account and install the facebook app to stream your tweets right into your newsfeed all straight from your iPhone.
Debbie - you have an iPhone?!
Join Facebook. I'll be on the lookout for you. We can be 'friends' and I'm really good at keeping an watchful eye on my little cousins. I can give you pointers.
My recommendation is to take a moment and look at how you currently communicate to the difference spheres in your life: professional, social, familial.
Realize that Facebook makes NO distinctions between any of these. A "friend" is a friend.
When you (or any "Friend" you have) posts something about you (a photo, a link, an opinion) it is broadcast to all your other "Friends", regardless of who they are and how well they know you.
Accept and friend (yes, that is a verb) people thoughtfully, because it may challenge your ideas of privacy and community.
On no! Another person falls to the temptation. Does one really care that their ex-boyfriend from high school is "sipping wine by the fire in Aspen" as told in their status update? Or that someone you met once, "friend-ed" on Facebook and now never see anymore has access to all the pictures you post and can essentially stalk you on-line? Does keeping up with what people are doing from a distance without ever interacting with them constitute friendship?
Everyone's drinking the Facebook Kool-aid and I'm a grumpy old Luddite tea-totaler.
Hold it. Did Anson just admit he has an ex-boyfriend who is a wine sipper in Aspen?
I do not have an iPhone, but I am pumped to know AICPA has a Facebook Group.
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