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I received an email from a dear friend and sister in the Lord that I used to work with back in my days with the "green/blue bank". She mentioned that she reads and enjoys our blog. It was great to hear from her again and to hear that someone else reads our little space in the blogsphere.

Over two years ago, my friends and even a few pastors in our church started talking about social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, GodSpace and other sites that I never really knew anything about. Some of the bands I listen to like the Lost Dogs, Family Force Five and others have links to their MySpace pages where you can listen to songs and stuff, but I never really "got" the purpose except for fans to post "thanks for the add man" on a big list of evergrowing comments.

Our caregroup leaders have their own blogs and I've seen them refer to their FaceBook status and mention that it's quick and easy to update where a blog takes a good bit of time to compose. Last year our kids did an Abbott and Costello routine for our Homeschool Arts festival and one of my friends said he had posted some good pics of them on FaceBook. I've heard the podcasters I listen to talk about Twitter and FaceBook but over the past year I heard more and more people talk about things they were sharing with friends there. I tend to be a very slow adapter but I knew several of my friends had FaceBook and blogs so I thought I'd check it out. I asked them a lot of security-type questions and it seemed that MySpace was still pretty open and exposed while FaceBook was not.

Well, that was almost two months ago and I've got to say that B and I are BIG fans of FaceBook now. It's probably the main reason we haven't posted anything to our blog in a LONG time. The status messages in FB have a character limit so it lends itself to shorter, often more current content updates--which is easier for me personally.

SO, given the title of this post, I'd like to encourage all who read our blog to continue to follow our family's daily goings on by creating a FaceBook account (a VERY easy process) and sending us a "friend request". You'll get a much more accurate picture of what's going on with us if you do. We post pictures and have been able to reconnect with long lost friends and relatives as well.

If you're ready to join us, you can view my page on FB using this link. I'm doubtful I will have time in the future to post anything further to this blog. Becky might and I think she has set it so this blog can post on her FB page too.

Thanks to all (or the few) that have read this blog in the past. PLEASE come join me on FaceBook. It's very secure and can be a lot of fun with fairly little effort on your part.