Haven't felt so awkward in a long time...
I finally figured out what I don’t like about Facebook. There, I’ve said it, I don’t like Facebook.
I don’t like Facebook because it’s too public. I feel as though I am 4 years old and my mother has brought me to a new preschool and plopped me down to “make new friends.” As I stand there self-consciously looking around, I hear the teacher ask, “How is she socially?”
“Well…” my mother replies, “she’s a little shy at first.”
“Most of them are at this age.”
As long as I feel eyes upon me, watching to see if I “make new friends”, I am the quintessential wall flower, tongue-tied and awkward.
The truth is, I only joined Facebook to dabble in the business social media aspect of it. I created a Facebook No-Work Spanish page. But Facebook lumps all your activities and interests, personal and professional together and puts it out there for everyone to see. So no sooner did I get on Facebook, than I shied away from it
I’m happy to discover that now Facebook will give me the option of choosing either my personal identity or the biz one. Maybe this separation will make me slightly less self-concious, because I don’t know about you, but I’m glad that each day when I go off to work, I don’t have all my friends and family watching my every move. I’m guessing I’m not the only one who feels like this. And I probably I wasn’t the only kid who really didn’t want my mother knowing everything I did at school.
The bottom line is… even now 40, okay, 40-plus years after preschool, I can still be a little shy at first.
P.S. Perhaps I should have subtitled this article (to make it clear why it belongs on this website) as
Why is there so little activity on the No-Work Spanish Facebook page.
