Sorry I’ve not blogged here much lately. I’m around, and if you follow me on Twitter you’ll see I’m very active there or on Facebook. I’m also blogging on my business site and have been very busy business-wise, as my husband is out of work, so I’m trying to kick my business into high gear to hopefully make it so he can just retire and I’ll provide for our family. He has indicated this is fine with him – and he would then do my bookkeeping, help homeschool the children, etc… so it would then make my business more a family run operation. It’s just a lot of work.
Anyway, if you’ve been following me via Twitter, you’ll know that earlier this week my mother-in-law had a severe stroke. Her entire left side was paralyzed. My father-in-law was given the option by the doctors to give her this shot that they said would (to sum it up to a very fine point) cure her or kill her. The survival rate for someone who takes this shot is only 17%, but with the severity of her stroke, her full recovery rate was not good. Yet if the shot worked, the success rate was very good. That’s a lot of if’s. So my father-in-law prayed and decided to let them give her the shot.
I immediately posted for prayer on Twitter, which also automatically posts on my Facebook wall. Within 30 minutes I had at least 50 replies in my Twitter replies of people praying, I had well over 100 soon after. I stopped counting after that.
When my husband went to the hospital and told his parents about this, they cried. They were overwhelmed with emotion that so many people they did not know, from all over the world, would stop and pray for them. Truly it was touching. 
The good news is that the medicine worked! My mother-in-law is up and walking, talking and honestly – you can not tell she even had a stroke. It’s only been 5 days. Yes, the medicine had something to do with it, but I believe it was the prayers of the faithful that decided which outcome the medicine would have for her. Cure! God heard our prayers – even via Twitter!
I Want a Facebook for GrownUps
Ok, I am really a very social gal – especially online. I love all these social networking sites and applications like Twitter. Twitter is my hands-down favorite. If you’re asking, “What is Twitter?”, I’ve got an ebook that will help you. Follow me on Twitter, if you’re not already.
Now, the reason for this post is Facebook. I’m on there, I have friends and that’s all well and good; but for the love of all things sane and mature – what is up with all those apps?! I’m not kidding – the Christmas ornaments, care bear hugs, candy kisses or whatever other kind of goofy and silly app that folks try to send me through Facebook – that then causes me to have to install this said app on my Facebook space – drives me insane! I ignore them. They remind me of silly things Jr. High girls do – ya know, about that maturity level.
Hey, I’m all for having fun. I’m a fun gal – I love to laugh, have a sense of humor and all that; but honestly I’m an adult, I am not going to send my friends care bear hugs, or whatever other goofy app via Facebook. If I was 12 I guess I would think that was really cool. I’m not and I don’t.
So is there a Facebook for grown-ups? I know there are pages on Facebook, but you can’t seem to avoid the apps requests. If Facebook could make it so we could turn off the apps feature that would be perfect; but apparently we can’t. We just have to keep ignoring/deleting all those requests. Time consuming and quite honestly – makes me not want to frequent Facebook all that often (and I don’t).
For a variety of reasons, I don’t like MySpace either. So is there a similar something to Facebook that does not have all those apps? I want to socialize with other grown-ups. You know mature adults. Nothing weird, kinky or anything remotely like that. Just social networking with others.
Seriously – I want to know is such a site exists. Send me a link and I’ll sign up in a New York minute. Because I’m not feelin’ the Facebook love; until it loses the apps.
So what about you: How do you feel about the Facebook apps?