Facebook Family

Facebook, I am not sure just how ingenious an application this is, but I am happy to have it available to me. I live nearly 2000 miles away from family and friends I grew up with -- this is how I stay in touch with their everyday lives. Personally, I love it.

I popped on the site this morning after I woke up just to check in on the cousins. My beautiful cousin Holly is getting married in a couple months so I like to keep abreast of the latest happenings -- of course, it is just another family gathering that I won’t be able to attend, which pisses me off. I have missed many of these family events because of work or the general lack of funds. Oh, that demon which is money. My second cousin posted some wonderful photographs of my grandparents (Anna May and Fritz) and my aunt and uncles (Judy, Ronnie, and Wayne -- George (Freddie as I remember him, was away at school or in Germany when this photo was taken) which I dearly love. I had to copy them off the computer so I could print them out and hang them on the wall at my house. I want to be able to pass on the knowledge of my grandparents to my daughter -- she will never get to meet them, they died when I was

pretty young.

Trying to keep family and friends close in this global world is tougher then people would guess and I am glad there are some applications out there trying to make it a little more simple. Still the cost of a stamp still outweighs the price of internet connections. I think I will start writing letters again just so people get something in their mail besides the regularly occurring bills.