Communication: Living Room or Airport Terminal

Communication.  Relationships.  Sharing.  Trust.  How do you handle what I share with you?  Well, dear Facebook, I don't trust you anymore.  For several years, I have trusted you to share information with only those I have chosen to share with.  Even though there is nothing that is secretive or destructive in what I have shared, I feel comfort in know who is and who is not seeing it.  

If I choose to have conversations with friends in my living room, it is more trusting, more open, and I might say more of what is on my heart ... a deeper level of communication.

If I were sitting in the middle of an airport terminal with great acoustics, I would adapt my conversation accordingly.  It would be very surface level.

I enjoy communication. 

And yet I write this on a blog available to the world.  What is the difference?  I'm not sure... but those that know me personally would be able to contact me via phone or e-mail and we could continue the conversation in the living room rather than the airport terminal.  So maybe that's the difference.

But, dear Facebook, I now feel like I'm sitting in the middle of O'Hare.

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