Do not ask me to be your friend

You will not find me on Facebook. Do not ask me to be your Facebook friend, because I am scared spitless of going anywhere near it.

I am, when all is said and done, a private person. I don’t particularly want to share my innermost dreams and ambitions with people I don’t know. For those I do know, I might share a little, but it will not be in writing.

About the most personal thing I’ve posted on this website is confessing that my tractor wouldn’t start one morning.

When I read about how personal information isn’t really secure on Facebook, and about how some of the things people put on the Internet come back to haunt them, I’m perfectly comfortable with not Facebooking or tweeting or any of that.

I really can’t fathom what possesses some people to brag about the time they got so drunk they couldn’t stand up, or post nude photos of themselves, or confess some other indiscretion on the Internet. What is this deep desire to share?

That’s not to say I don’t want to learn more about these things. On my list of things to do is to make our Kamloops Daily News website Twitter friendly. A few other things take priority, but I will get to it.

There’s a great one-day workshop coming up in the fall. Venture Kamloops, the chamber of commerce, and Communication Solutions are teaming up to put it on. Led by Vancouver-based Capulet Communications, it’s about social media and how to use them for business purposes.

It’s proving so popular the first workshop has sold out, but a second one has been scheduled for Sept. 4. If you want to know more, go to the website of one of the co-sponsors.

I’ve signed up for it, and I saved 50 bucks by promising to mention it on my blog. Now you know something else about me — I’m thrifty.