Constant Contact

I was first introduced to Facebook by my mother. Yes, that’s right I said my mother. She informed me that she was on Facebook and she loved it. Her favorite thing about it was this game called Farmville, where she had her own farm and recived gifts from other friends to further expand her farm. She insisted that I joined up so that I could send her the supplies she needed to tend to her farm. She proclaimed that the game was extremely addictive and that people would even spend their money to purchase these things called XPs, which allowed you to purchase products or even replenish withered products. This piqued my interest because I couldn’t believe that people would actually spend money on a game. Therefore, I created my own account and start to play that game as well as a few others; such as Sorority Life in my spare time. I however, was not willing to spend money on either games.

Although I had signed up to play the games and supply my mother with the essentials to expand her farm and the other games she soon signed up for, I found myself more content with the family members that I was able to speak to thatI usually was not able to. One in particular was my cousin who lives down south. She has three beautiful children who I do not really get to see and everyone once in a while I was able to write her and check up on the status of her as well as my baby cousins. Another cousin that I was able to speak to was my cousin from England who I only see during the summers that he is able to visit. Through Facebook we were able to speak all the time and we were able to stay posted on everything that is going in each other’s lives. If I become too busy with school and work, Facebook even gives me a reminder of when their birthdays are coming up.

For those of you have distant relatives that you no longer speak to and wish to reconnect with, social media networks like Facebook allow you to do just that.