Yippee! One of the people I really wanted to defriend, defriended me! And I didn't even have to write to them. Ok, so only two people I have written to have defriended me rather than write me back. At least three have preemptively defriended me (the one above being one of them). Woo hoo! I am so excited.
Anyway, I am 1/4th of the way through the project. And there are still a few days - ok a week, left in January. That bodes well for finishing by April. Especially if more people defriend me before I have to write to them.
The project is proving rewarding in several ways. One, my letter writing skills are being honed. They have always been decent, but they are getting better and better. Yippee! Two, I am reaching out to people and they are responding - it is about a 67 percent response rate. Without that much prodding. (I will do some prodding eventually.) Three, the defriending mentioned above. That makes me so happy! Four, I get a sense of accomplishment for every letter I write. One of my FB/DC friends wrote and said that she hoped my writing wasn't all about getting responses. Of course it isn't. I do want people to know how I am and what is up in my life and that is the primary reason for writing these letters. Then again, why have friends if they aren't interested in my life, or interested enough in our relationship to respond and let me know what is going on in their lives? Hmm?
2 comments:
If one has to be "defriended" than in my simple mind, logically you really weren't a friend to begin with. Gotta love the standards of Social Media. But than again, I could write an entire blog on social media itself. FB and twitter, however my experience there would be on how it effects relationships. A topic we can discus offline and on email perhaps.
And I must add we are not FB friendds.. but that doesn't mean you are not my friend :)
Again, my two senses...
Brigitte
By definition, one must be a friend before one can be defriended or unfriended as far as I can tel.. :) Yay social Media! Write that blog, Brigitte! And we can be FB friends if you would like, B!
Yay Senses (and cents)!
Augustus
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