Dearest Facebook Friend,
I am excitedly delighted you have chosen to be my friend on FB. I just wanted to take a moment to acquaint you with some of the niceties I prefer in Facebookland.
1. My personal FB wall is my virtual living room. Feel free to come in, have some coffee and comment and share-all people and ideas are welcome here. I am “friends” with each person because I have a genuine affection for them – this includes you. Thank you, again.
2. It is very easy to misread intent in a “text only” format. Please let your remarks be respectful and overtly kind-even in disagreement. Also, please look for the best intentions in others’ remarks. (You don’t have to agree with one another, but actual arguments make me horridly embarrassed, and I wind up deleting everything instead.)
3. I am friends with children on my facebook, so please mind your manners & do not post foul language or inappropriate content. (I’lI have no choice but to remove it. I once had to remove one which was a sweet compliment.. but..uh..oops.)
4. Facebookland is a wonderful place of ideas, pictures, moments, funny ideas, serious ideas and more. These ideas will vary wildly. If you have any statuses which I don’t like, I will exercise the option to not read it and post on it out of respect for you to run your own wall any way you wish. You may feel free to do so with mine as well. I will not be offended, I promise. ♥
5. I do share quite a bit of my life and situations in my living room, but I promise to do my best to not air gripes, grievances and dirty laundry on my page.
I suspect you don’t want to hear my negative remarks about my children, husband, etc. In my own living room, if I started slamming my husband or others who are in the room (the FB living room is immense) you would get very uncomfortable and want to leave.
Impersonal people (like the guy behind the Starbucks counter-though they are usually very nice) are kinda fair game.. hehehe. If I believe my words will harm a specific individual, then I will not post them. If I offend, please let me know, but do so privately.
Lovingly,
Your Facebook Friend, Me
