Although my divorce has been finalized for a while, my ex-h is still struggling with the consequences of his infidelity and its impact on our marriage. Both of us have facebooks, I'm not "friends" with him, but all of our family, friends, and colleagues overlap. My profile is "public" meaning anyone can see it.
Anyway, I don't really get the whole social networking thing - or I should say - I don't get why people confuse real life with online life. I don't use mine to update anything real in my life, and most of my updates are random "Don't stop believing, Tony Soprano!" or "I'll buy a vowel, can I use Ritz crackers as money."
In a nutshell, I don't post things sentimental info like, My children are such a blessing or Copy and paste this if you want to stop cancer. It's nice to see what old friends have been doing, but I'm not really into it as a way to communicate. Sometimes I put a few pics of the kids online so their relatives in other places can see, but even then, not too many.
But about two weeks ago when exchanging the kids, he mentioned something like "Oh, you like the Sopranos, huh?'" And for a moment, I was completely blank, I had no idea what he was talking about, and then it hit me I had written that (it's actually a different example but close enough).
In a nutshell, he seems to think that what he sees online is real or has some hidden code....for him. In my mind, I posted that standing in line at a store bc I was bored.
This is kind of a tangent from someone else's thread, but it surprised me that people put their business out for people to see, like lots of pics and personal stuff.
Do people really think what you put online is a window into your soul?
I guess it's like what someone else posted - I'm not going to put up mushy stuff about loving my kids on a facebook page. I know it they know it, I don't think facebook needs to know it.
