If everyone jumped, would you?

I don't know the exact saying, but I know it is something about following the crowd into anything- good or bad. Anyways...

I started a Facebook. I would like to tell you that I had some great reason. Like I wanted to get in touch with old friends or that I was doing some social experiment. As I've said in an earlier blog, I have a hard time making my business public. I don't want people from my past tracking me down to compare my life to theirs.

The truth is, I did jump because everyone else did. My sister has one, my husband started one, and countless friends of ours have them. I saw how easy it was to keep in touch and stay up to date on what other people were doing. I liked how easy it was to show friends and family pictures and to let them know what I am up to. So I did it.

But I am setting some rules for myself.

• I will never let myself "friend" people recklessly. I promised myself that I will only "friend" people that I truly know. I won't be one of those people with 400 followers full of people that take me a minute to identify.
  
• I also won't get too personal. I certainly won't be posting comments on spats I might have with my husband or anything like that. No need to air my dirty laundry.
  
• I am not going to let Facebook consume my life. I won't feed my son with one hand and type with the other (like I did last night- oops!). I won't ignore a crying child because I am too busy snooping at other peoples pictures. I won't sit in front of the computer in silence when my family clearly needs me.
  
• I won't post things to my husbands wall when he is sitting across the room from me and I can just tell him what I am thinking.
  

So, here we go again. This computer stuff can become addicting. It's a slippery slope, and I'm sliding down. But I am digging my heals in to try and slow down- and not get too involved.

So what? I jumped.