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Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Facebook...Thank you!

I am addicted to Facebook! I admit it. I went on there as a fluke and ended up finding everyone I have ever known that I have lost touch with. Because of Facebook I found my sixth grade class! We are now planning a reunion. Because of Facebook I found my high school class. We are all getting together on March 14th. And this was all by accident. I didn't go to find anyone or have get togethers but now that we visit there each day, we want to move to the next level and MEET! Because of Facebook I have found my old church group friends I lost touch with in 1990! Because of Facebook I am now friends with some old teachers and professors I used to have. And they all remember me too really well. They have told me nice stories. Sent me old books I read with them so I can now read them to my son. When my 6th grade teacher sent me this book with my name in it, and now I read these stories to my son...Made me choked up she had kept it all these years. Facebook is phenomenal. Other than reading this blog. This has changed my daily life. Hope you find some people you didn't think you would find too.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...: I've been running into a lot of old friends, too. One is now a school principal--and he was the one usually in the principal's office in school! LOL

I didn't think I ever wanted to have anything to do with the yesteryears, but I have to admit, I'm enjoying it. :); 10:34 AM
Mark said...: I signed on to Facebook recently, and the first day I came across an old friend from College. It was so long ago, neither he or I remembered some things. He remembered we met in Art History class. I remembered meeting when we were both employees of the same company.

There were some rather funny exchanges. He mentioned a girl in our class who he had a crush on but didn't remember her name. I replied with the girls name and said I had a crush on her too. It was great hearing from him again.

I also recently reconnected with a couple of old friends from the old neighborhood. One was a girl who lived just a couple of houses from my parents house. She uploaded her picture and she looks just like she did 40 years ago! Even has the same hairdo!

I joined classmates.com, too. That's another great site for hooking up with old friends. Interesting thing about that:

Several of my high school classmates have sent me friend requests and messages, but I didn't know any of them very well at all. My closest friends from school that were listed haven't contacted me. They are organizing a 40 year reunion this summer that I can't go to, because of the distance, but it doesn't make any difference. I went to my 10 year reunion, and it's true what they say:

You can't go home again.; 8:03 AM
Jim O said...: The really good news is that it looks like it will put Classmates.com out of business. So that will be one less spammer email I get every day.

I'm on it too, BTW, at my daughters' insistance. I don't use it much, though. It must be an acquired taste.; 11:36 AM
Tonto said...: I think you are right Jim! And actually the newness does wear off. I get burned out and leave it alone a while and then when I need something...like a recipe or what was the name of that place we went to once...or I really want to know how someone is...I know i can find them in five minutes.

But I have also noticed that in general people we lost touch with may not be an accident...after all...they were people we only knew for a moment for a certain purpose or whatever and that was it.

The people I kept in touch with I don't need Facebook for.

Its just a theory I am working on...; 1:41 PM
Tonto said...: In general the best purpose for Facebook is if everyone you know is on there you dont have to send a mass email to everyone when you want to tell them something. Just once on FB and its done!; 1:42 PM
Tonto said...: The coolest thing is some people I found from High school are doing really important jobs...not only do I think Classmates is going out of business I think there is no need for formal reunions anymore either!

A guy I know is the host of a show on Discovery Channel called "Mythbusters." I love hearing about the stuff he jots on FB about his work and where he goes...but that could be a sickness of mine...!; 1:47 PM
Lone Ranger said...: Mmmm, I'm thinking of who I WANT to find from my childhood.; 11:01 PM

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Talking Points

I don't use talking points, I create them.

1. Hate makes people stoopid.

2. There is nothing so impenetrable as a closed mind.

3. A stupid person is not someone who can't learn, but someone who refuses to learn.

4. It is a small mind that has no room for God.

5. You can take Stalin out of the gene pool, but you can't take Stalinism out of liberals.

6. The best way to sabotage a bad plan is to follow it to the letter.

7. The race card is the first refuge of people who have nothing to say.

8. Ignorance is the cornerstone of arrogance.

9. Which is more racist, to hate someone who is not white or to assume someone is racist because he is white?

10. Children are not stupid. If a child is taught, the child will learn. If a child is not learning, the child is not being taught.

11. To express righteous indignation, one must first be righteous. And that's a label that doesn't stick to liberals.

12. Profanity is ignorance made audible.

13. An open mind is a liberal's worst enemy.

14. Paternalism is the purest form of racism.

15. People who bend the truth, usually bend it in their favor.

16. If you always stand in opposition to liberalism, you will never be wrong.

18. Life is simple. People who make it complicated usually have an agenda.

19. Getting your news from the corrupt, liberal media is like sticking your head in the sand, except you don't get grit in your teeth.

20. Liberals' emotional development stops at the age of 16.

21. To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell the truth.

22. Idealism seldom matches up with reality.

23. Those who don't hate communism have never lived it.

24. This was a much more civil country when men walked about heavily armed.

25. This economy will never heal as long as Obama keeps picking at the scab.

26. Liberals don't think outside the box; they ARE the box.

27. You cannot change the hearts and minds of liberals, because they possess neither.

28. There is no such thing as a kind liberal.

29. Reading Democratic Party platforms is like reading the history of human rights abuses and crimes against humanity in this country.

25 Immutable Truths About Liberals

Over the years I've been writing this blog, I've been throwing out little self-evident truths that seem to have no exceptions that prove the rule. I've made a list of some of them and will add to it as I remember them or make up more. Most of this list I've come up with myself. A few I've borrowed from others.

1. Always expect the worst from a liberal and you will never be surprised.

2. Never try to reason with a liberal. They disregard any evidence that conflicts with their beliefs.

3. You can always tell what liberals are up to by what they accuse conservatives of doing.

4. Liberals don't debate, they argue.

5. The only standards liberals have are double standards.

6. Liberals feel, conservatives think.

7. Whenever you don't understand a liberal's motives, just look for the money.

8. Liberals cannot be embarrassed. They lack the gene to blush.

9. The Liberal Golden Rule is, "Do unto others but scream bloody murder if they do unto you."

10. Liberals don't have leaders, they have demi-gods.

11. There are no honest liberals. If they were honest -- especially to themselves -- they would be conservatives.

12. A liberal's business is nobody's business, but everyone's business is a liberal's business.

13. Liberals have an inflated sense of self-worth. They are like house flies that criticize the air-worthiness of a Stealth fighter. (Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, ad infinitum are morons.)

14. Liberals lack a sixth sense that conservatives have in abundance -- common sense.

15. Liberals never stop hating.

16. There are only two types of liberals -- the deceivers and the deceived. The difficulty is telling them apart.

17. Every time liberals get on their high horse, they get bucked off.

18. Liberal programs are so wonderful that they have to be forced on people.

19. Liberals always choke on their own medicine.

20. When given a moral choice, liberals always come down on the wrong side of the fence.

21. The only way liberals can build themselves up is by tearing others down.

22. Liberals not only refuse to learn from their mistakes, they refuse to admit them.

23. Liberals have only two political positions -- blind devotion and blind hatred.

24. Liberals are incapable of attacking the message, so they always attack the messenger.

25. Liberal diversity is only skin deep.