Young@Heart by Pam Young
For more than 35 years, New York Times best-selling author Pam Young has been
the “get organized guru” thru thousands of newspaper
articles, magazine
feature stories and radio and TV interviews. A frequent guest on
Oprah, Regis,
Today Show,700 Club, CBS Morning News and many more, Pam has
guided and helped
women turn their chaotic homes into havens of peace and order.
To
listen to Pam’s essay while you do something productive with your hands go to www.makeitfunanditwillgetdone.com
I
have a hard time with “social networking.” I even hired a person to help me learn
how to use it to spread my ideas for finding joy in everything we do. Unfortunately
that joy often eludes me when it comes to Facebook. I’ve learned how to get
onto my Facebook page for Make it Fun and my husband’s and my personal pages.
I’ve been “liking” stuff and “commenting,” but I’m not sure what happens to
those likes and comments?
The
other day, I went on my husband’s page to see who he had as friends (he’s never
been on his page) and found he had four friends and guess who was at the top of
his wanna be friends list? My ex-husband! Now why in the world does my
ex-husband want to be friends with my husband? I deleted him with glee. Now
that was fun!
Because
of Nelly, my inner child and new helper, I have been playing a lot on Facebook.
When I first went to my personal Facebook page I discovered my own husband
wasn’t a “friend.” So I asked him to be
my friend. Now I don’t mind asking him
to be my friend, but I refuse to ask people I don’t know to be friends with me.
And when I get a request from someone who wants to be friends and I don’t know him
or her, it bothers me. When I see that they know someone I know, then I’m fine
with accepting their friendship, but I still feel shallow about it.
I
remember reading one of Shirley MacLaine’s books and in it she said that she
hosted a party for 3,000 of her closest friends. I thought, ‘how does anyone
have time for 3,000 people in a close way?’ (Of course I remember reading her
confession that she slept with three men in one day, so maybe she really did
have 3,000 close friends.) By the way, I went on her Facebook page and, bless
her heart, she has no friends!
I
know part of my problem is I love spending most of my time in the real world,
away from my computer, so most of my so-called “friends” on Facebook are a
little bit of a mystery to me. And Linkedin? (I just found out it’s pronounced
“linked in.” I’ve been reading it as
“Lin ke din” a three syllable word as meaningless as say, “mu te ga” or “zo pa
dee.) To this day I still can’t get onto my Linkedin page because even though I
got a new password, a sign comes up that says, “You have the wrong server.”
What? Excuse me? My server works just
fine, thank you very much. Link You!
As
far as asking people to “like” my page, I find that very difficult. I was
taught I shouldn’t ask anyone to like me. It sounds needy and I know I have to
get around this notion to be able to play on Facebook. I’ve been told if I’m
going to play on the internet I have to be active on Facebook and since I’m supposed
to get people to “like” my Make if Fun page, I have done my fair share of
begging.
Today
it hit me! It’s Valentine’s Day and it’s okay to ask if you’ll be my valentine.
So in the Spirit of St. Valentine, please, oh please, oh pleeeeze be my Valentine
on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/MakeItFunAndItWillGetDone
Shirley MacLaine eat your heart out.
For more from Pam Young go to www.makeitfunanditwillgetdone.com.
You’ll find many musings, videos of Pam in the kitchen preparing delicious
meals, videos on how to get organized, ways to lose weight and get your
finances in order, all from a reformed SLOB’s point of view.
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