Facebook Fiasco

As you know, I'm attempting to curtail my obsessive use of social media. Out of sheer curiosity, I deactivated my Facebook account just to see what would happen. When I reactivated it 67 seconds later, everything looked normal, except my groups and pages were gone. The group I was an administrator of wouldn't let me view it and I managed to dump all the followers of my blog.

So what did I do? I decided to make another FB fan page for my blog. How embarrassing. What's worse is that when I created it, I didn't classify it correctly. I listed it as a local business. Now, I have no idea what I'm peddling from my website. Sure, I'll be growing some tomato plants for a few friends and I occasionally make pottery in my garage (when I'm not busy incubating babies), but I'm pretty sure I am not a "local business - other". I don't come with commuting directions or parking instructions - contrary to what my husband may claim.

As I cringed, I hit delete on my new fan page and it's 19 generous fans and started a third fan page. YES. A THIRD. I'm definitely not that big of a deal, but it's all in the name of letting people who want to know I've updated my blog be told and letting the others simply tune me out (while they are simultaneously bombarded by their friends' farmville, mafia, bejeweled, and fishville updates.)

If you are on Facebook and would like my newest post titles to show up in your newsfeed, go to: http://www.facebook.com/paige.puckett#!/pages/Pocket-Smiles/349456086997. I promise not to abuse my privilege of adding to your news feed... at least not anymore than I already have in the last 24 hours. And meanwhile, someone kick me for spending so much time on FB trying to sort through the mess I made.