A REAL Facebook Friend

If you're a facebooker...you know what I mean. Some people send a request to be your friend, but are you REALLY friends with them, or were you just an acquaintance with them back in the day...and they feel like because they knew your name, they just HAVE to see what you're up to these days. I mean really, take a look at your FB friends - out of the 213 friends you have, how many of them do you really send messages to? visit with? chat with? care about? It's okay, I admittedly have over 200 FB friends...and don't really visit with over half of them.

HOWEVER, I do have several REAL FB friends. One of them being a true blast from the past. Colleen (Duer) and I were friends back in 6th and 7th grades in Nebraska. We didn't go to the same elementary school...in fact, neither did the third person in our little "Three Amigos" group, Sabry. But we all connected and became best friends from church. We had the best times together - going to the pool, church activities, sleepovers (remember watching Arsenio, Love Connection and dog races?! I know...strange combination of shows, but we loved them for some reason).

Colleen and I moved from NE within weeks of each other. We all sort of lost touch after that (besides a few letters here and there...then those eventually stopped too). Colleen and I kept in touch a bit and even visited each other a few times during high school (it wasn't too far of a trip since I was in MT and she was in WA). Sabry and I reconnected when we both found out we were attending Utah State - what a strange coincidence. So while Sabry and I became best friends again, Colleen and I lost touch again unfortunately.

Until FACEBOOK came along! We recently reconnected on FB and then she had a dream that she and her daughter, Sydney, came to MT to visit. What a great dream that she made a reality!

So Colleen and Sydney came out for a fun little weekend and it was so awesome to see her! Right off the bat, we laughed when we saw each other because we were both wearing white tops and grey capri's.

I took her to lunch with some of my friends.












We went to the park, the pool...and did a lot of catching up. We hadn't seen each other in about 12 years!! Colleen, it was so good to see you and meet your daughter. Let's not wait 12 years to do it again! Now I can truly say - THANK YOU FACEBOOK! :)