{"id":612,"date":"2010-04-09T12:38:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T19:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/?p=612"},"modified":"2010-04-09T12:38:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T19:38:29","slug":"thoughts-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/?p=612","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

I resisted Facebook for a long, long time. I had two reasons. One was that I’m already on the computer enough and really don’t need another excuse to be online. Another was that I didn’t think I wanted to connect with people from the past. We’d lost touch. So what?<\/p>\n

Well, I’m singing a different tune now. I joined Facebook to help launch Angie Windheim Photography<\/a>. But I’m a “fan” of Facebook now because it’s helped me reach out and feel so much closer to friends and family who live far away. \u00a0It’s fun to see the comments and off-the-cuff remarks. I now know that one friend is a serious coffee addict, another runs a yoga retreat and yet another just got a job as a Foreign Service Consular Officer for the State Department. And, I have a brand new baby second cousin in Japan and another cousin teaching in Korea. Facebook is very fun.<\/p>\n

That glowing recommendation aside, it is another massive drain on my time. I have to find a way to limit the minutes I spend on it. What’s right? Once a day? 15 minutes a day? Less? More? I don’t know. Right now, I’m not able to resist checking it as frequently as email. It’s just too easy with my iPhone. \u00a0Maybe it’s just like a new toy that you can’t put down and my interest will fade over time. Yeah, right \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I resisted Facebook for a long, long time. I had two reasons. One was that I’m already on the computer enough and really don’t need another excuse to be online. Another was that I didn’t think I wanted to connect with people from the past. We’d lost touch. So what? Well, I’m singing a different […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-things-to-do","category-random-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614,"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions\/614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}