Off Again, On Again...

Well, as I feared I went into serious melt-down after a few days of Facebook. For one thing it has what is without a doubt the crummiest explanation of feature usage of anything I have ever seen. For another, I had to relearn on old lesson with respect to the joys of asynchronous communication. I'll ignore the former and focus on the latter.

Here's what happened. A fast-paced exchange with an old friend turned from witty (to me anyway) give-and-take to confusion and misunderstanding... at least on my part. Horrified that I had overstepped the fine line between teasing and goading, I wrote a hasty note apology and shut down my Facebook page. All of my reasons for avoiding setting one up in the first place appeared to have been validated. The lack of real-time feedback through body language and verbal cues opened wide the door of misunderstanding.

But, now I'm back. It took a couple of days for my friend and I to backtrack and sort out what actually transpired. Friendship trumped miscommunication and all is well with us. I still have a lot of thinking to do about how and why I will use this strange mode of communication, and I find mistrust still rides on my shoulder as I'm typing - I mean, key-boarding.