I have probably been noticably absent from Facebook for a while now.... although I have Internet access at most bookfairs I've been running, I don't feel that it is very professional to have it running while at an event. And with the latest change that Facebook has made to the way it "networks" (I was forced to make some profile setting changes when i logged on last week to put up a status update), I have pretty much decided that less is more as far as Facebook goes. I don't care to have my every interest, past places of employment and schools turned into additional ways for people that I don't know in real life to find me. Facebook used to be great for keeping up with people that I wanted to keep up with (that was back before those quizzes and games clogged up the homepage). I'm not on Facebook to meet new people, even if they have mutual interests, they are friends of friends, or we happened to attend the same school years apart. I prefer to meet new people in person first, virtually network later.
So going forward, I'm going to be using the-richmonds.net for what I had originally intended it to be used for. I'm sorry that it won't update to your homepage on Facebook, but you can always subscribe to the RSS to get updates without having to check back here often.
I'll be keeping my Facebook account, but there won't be much in the way of updates or anything on the "info" page (I chose to unlist my interests rather than being linked up). I will still get any messages sent to me or posted on the wall forwarded to my email. Speaking of social networking sites that I won't be keeping updated, you can also find me on LinkedIn, which I have always kind of preferred for networking over Facebook (geared more for professionals, and no games!).
I'm done with my rant now. :)
