The Joys of the Internet

I took the plunge into Facebook a while back when I had very little knowledge of how it worked. I know why they named it Facebook. There are lots of fascinating faces there to look at in one's spare time. If you Google "Annabelle Nelson Smith" you will see a bit of my Facebook page. You could ask to be my friend and I could either accept you or ignore you. Some people have hundreds of "friends". I don't see how they can handle that many.

I am friends with some distant relatives in Sweden, but seeing that I don't understand the Swedish language, I don't visit those pages very often. The only Swedish word I know is "gazoonheidt", or something like that, that you utter after someone has sneezed. I think it means "Please use some Kleenex next time." Actually, one of these Facebook relatives did fly over the ocean from Sweden and visited with my daughter in Florida recently. That was very nice. I have a photo of him and Mickey Mouse taken when he visited Disney World.

I also got in touch with my former sister-in-law in British Columbia whom I haven't seen for twenty years. Facebook is fantastic for getting in touch and staying in touch with people you knew at one time. It is also very convenient for keeping in touch with your children if you have any and you are on speaking terms. I had to go to my daughter's Facebook page to find out if her son, Tom, would be available to mow my lawn today. That daughter lives in Alaska. Tom lives in Duluth. It's a long story that I am sure you would not be interested in. Don't get me wrong, we are on speaking terms. This said daughter put a lot of
pictures of me and other members of the family on my Facebook page recently. I would rather have had a professionally done , airbrushed photo of me put there. But I am still speaking to her anyway.

Google is another wonderful service. When I first googled my name, all I got was obituary notices of people with the same name. But that has changed and there are Annabelle Smiths all over the place and they are presumably still alive. I Google everybody that I happen to think of. I Google the old Hollywood movie stars to find out what they died from and when. I Googled "What to do about an ant hill" the other day. I got lots of help, and started to mix up the Borax and sugar to sprinkle on the hill in my back yard when I saw that Mother Nature had rained them out. Temporarily. Googling is a great pasttime.

I live in fear that my computer might conk out and I won't be able to Google for a day or two.