the accidental learning experiment.

I get bored.

yesterday I was extremely bored.

so in a fit of wanting to entertain myself I went to the good ol' fb (pronounced eff bee). I had a spark of insanity to post this.

it started slow, only had three 'likes' after about an hour. I thought to myself after those messages were sent, "well this was a fun experience, whatevs." more and more slowly came through.

now for the kicker, what I learned.

I could drone on about how we find the bad in people all the time (which is true, don't deny it) and we run with it. Most of the time I use my social networking for saying "ha, I'm better" not in so many words, but basically that's what happens.

but, but, everyone who I got to send a message to, I was very surprised with what I felt about them. I had to change my attitude from them being just an ordinary person to pushing to see how they are amazing. and oh boy they are.

I would be lying if told you that it was easy to come up with things to write, because well some people I hadn't even seen for five or so years, and there are two that I personally haven't met. not wanting to back down from my challenge that I blasted over the fb, I actually said a prayer about it, about these people.

the beautiful attributes hit me hard.

I was able to let these people know how they are beautiful, why I see them as kind, what their witty attitude does, who they help to be happy, where they have affected my life for the better.

not that I expect replies, because that is not the purpose of my challenge, but some have replied with simple 'thank yous' and questions of why I did this. but one sent me a message before I could send his to him, the gesture alone was enough to make my day, let alone what he wrote being genuine and heartfelt, he gave me a taste of what I might be doing for others.

maybe I was blessed being able so say simple things to people and let them interpret them how they want, or maybe I was blessed with seeing a glimpse of how our Savior sees them. all I know is that I am so amazed of how marvelous each person is.

I was honored with this idea, one that I thought to be silly at first, but I am thankful for this. I am thankful for the people who participated. I learned something valuable, where the incredible lies.

starving for followers.

being popular in real life is a lot different than being popular online.

twitter - a whopping 18 followers. which is more than expected because I didn't start to even understand twitter until about three days ago. 

instagram - 199 followers. thats a good solid number. I really don't really expect to get any more than that. other than the fact that my best friend doesn't follow me. jerk. okay joke. 

facebook - 1,128 friends. only because I can add people too. 

blogger - 12 followers. twelve. I'm okay with twelve. there are many personal blogs with a couple thousand. I would get scared. or go writing crazy. 

attempting more social media accounts then the ones that I already have seems like a daunting task. I am not ready.

real life friends are great. even better a real life boyfriend is great. online hand holding just doesn't sound nice. 

perfect couple. instagrammed.

it's fine, I just fell into the norm of popularity. it was either get engaged or get instagram, those seem to be the only two things going on nowadays on the fb, so I chose the lesser of the two commitments.  

I have always had commitment problems, it all started with the piano, it lasted six months, then we broke up. I miss that relationship, it was a good learning experience, I still go back to it every once in a while, but nothing too serious. I love pulling up the bench and following a youtube piano tutorial, or plunking out a hymn, or a violin song that I know by memory. but that's where my true heart lies, with the violin. I need to stop leading the piano on.  

getting on the fb today I now have seven more friends engaged. it may seem like a lot. it is. first off I want to say, congratulations and every other cliché sentiment. back to my new relationship, its fun and refreshing and I get to flaunt it to the world on fb, but I don't feel as cheesy as those who are flaunting the engagements with all the new events like "guess who's tying the knot" or "another wedding address event" or "annoying+whipped=forever!!!"

let me give you a little run down of my new beau's past. instagram is a free photo-sharing program and social network that was launched in October 2010. The service enables users to take a photo, apply a digital filter to it, and then share it with other instagram users they are connected to on the social network as well as on a variety of social networking services. insta(nickname) has over 100 million register users, according to wikipedia. as you can tell insta is the popular/pretty one. 

the picture of nothing that gets "heart liked"

you have the typical
duck face (we added hairy moustaches)
picture with a filter.

and the semi-cute picture with a rounded border to make
look ever more adorable. 

over all I kinda like insta.