Social Net-worth-it?

I'm having a modern day identity crisis. On one hand, it's fun having a facebook full of friends and updating people on what's going on in your life and getting comments. On the other hand... not everyone needs to know everything!


I think it would be nice to just delete social networking accounts all together and update people as you see them... but at the time same time, social networking is such an easy way to get to know and inform your friends and make new ones. I'm having a hard time weighing out the pros and cons and it's hard to keep an even keel. Not sure which would be more beneficial.

In the past few weeks I've been reconnecting with MANY old friends. It's quite interesting how they're all appearing all at once back into my life: a childhood friend who I've wondered about for many years because he one day disappeared - we used to hang out everyday. A man who made significant influence in the bettering of myself as a person and treated me so well while I was too young to appreciate or realize - I'm glad I'm getting a chance to show him my gratitude. A family friend who I also grew up with that seems to have gone down the wrong path in life since I've last heard from her. 2 of these 3 were found/found me via Myspace or Facebook. Another reason why I am unsure whether they're more bad or good to health and life. Oh, and a bunch of acquaintances who are really rather insignificant to my life whom I either went to school with or met at one time or another. Also an ex boyfriend and I have recently begun conversing more again though I'm not sure if you can call that "reconnecting" since we never really lost touch or contact information.

The one I'm really excited about is the 2nd one. I met him purely by chance at a strange time of my life. He's rather special to me because of all the people I have known throughout the years, he is one of the ones that stood out the most. We lost contact and I thought about him periodically which is very out of character for me. He gave me great advice and a much needed reality check. I always regretted losing touch because I really wanted to thank him and also to apologize for the way I was at that age... didn't think it was likely I'd ever bump into him again! I actually dug through old emails to find his and was ecstatic to find that not only did he still check that email, he was happy to hear from me! Thank you universe =) As chance would have it, he's in LA at the moment so I will see him and give him a great big hug!

When I told my ex about how I found my friend again and how thankful I was to him, my ex confided to me that one of my greatest assets had always been to recognize good advice, absorb it and make use of it. I guess what a sales or marketing company would call "coachable". I only wish is that I knew more people out there with knowledge that cared enough to share! When it comes to advice: most people either don't know what they're talking about, don't care enough about you to speak up, or tell you only what will benefit themselves. That doesn't just go for life advice.