No Facebook And Life Still Goes On

I had read another Xanga Blog about her deactivating her Facebook account and I agreed with her entirely and I felt compelled to write my own.

I was on Facebook for a very long time. I still remember when it first came out. It was only for college students and I believe I was a Junior in college so it had to me 2005? Somewhere around or in that year. I didn’t get on it at first. A lot of my friends where on but I didn’t feel the need because I didn’t know what it was and nor did I care. Someone told me it’s just a profile where you add friends and leave messages.

Later on, friends were talking about it constantly…whether it was about a funny drunk picture or something someone said on someone’s wall. So I became intrigued and registered an account myself. I fell in love myself and it defiantly made the time pass by extremely fast while I was in college and waiting for another class to start.

Since I have graduated from college I have other responsibilities where I can’t be on the Internet 24/7. Thus, I don’t have time for Facebook. I also stopped communicating with a lot of my “friends” on there. I didn’t even talk to a lot of people through messages and no one ever contacted me so I felt what was the need? I am never on there and I am certainly not trying to keep in touch with anyone and the people I am close to and still in touch with knows how to contact me. I was getting even more tired of all the unnecessary emails I constantly got from people inviting me to events and trying to get me to join a group! It started to get very irritating. So, I basically stopped going on Facebook for weeks sometimes months at a time. Therefore, I decided to deactivate my account.

And let me tell you…people were APPALLED! They just couldn’t believe it!

“Why would you ever delete your account!?”

“Get back on!”

“Why would you do that? I cant live with out getting on Facebook everyday!”

“I cant believe you did that!”

How about because I have a life outside of Facebook!

Deactivating your Facebook account doesn’t mean you are deleting it, which I thought it did. All it does is “hibernate” your account like a little bear. You don’t get any more emails, no messages and no one can see your account and add you as a friend but if you feel that you want to get back on all you have to do is sign on with your old email and password and your profile is back like it was when you left it…same friends, same messages in inbox and same old messages on wall. And that’s what I did. During my “hibernation” I felt that I did lose communication with some people…like family and some friends! They wouldn’t answer text and pick up their phone but they answered you when it comes to posting comments on your wall. Which I thought was ridiculous!

After a year of “hibernation”, I decided to get back on the Facebook train and thought I would give it another shot. And it was the saaaaame way. Some things about it change but I still felt extremely bored. I just don’t care about people putting up drunk and funny pics or commenting on peoples wall so other people can read it. What really got me feeling weird is when people put up their whole life stories on their status messages. I am not one who cares to know about people tired of not finding love and women taking other women’s man! Sorry.

I was on there for a couple months and decided to again delete my account but this time it was for good. I also deleted my MySpace, which I actually loved but it’s the same either anymore.

I don’t feel any sorrow. I don’t feel any pain. And I am glad. I am glad my email box is cleaner!

There is life beyond Facebook….like Twitter! Which I love. People say its pretty dumb…BUT THEY DO THE SAME THING ON FACEBOOK…UPDATING THEIR STATUS EVERY 5 MIN…so what’s really the difference? Really?

Twitter to me is less stress. No pics. Its more simple. Its not just updating your status messages. You can also send messages to other people and there is always a topic to “twit” about which I love because some people can be so funny. The more people you follow, the more fun it can be! Please try it before you knock it… Follow me at www.twitter.com/luvlykristen. And I will love to follow all my Blogger friends also!

Praise Him The Almighty GOD

Disclaimer: I know this is an extremely touchy subject. I will try to make this blog “nice” as possible but please be aware these are my opinions.

One day I was on Yahoo Messenger and was speaking to one of my Yahoo/New Xangan friend. He brought up the subject of "YHWH". I had no idea what it was. He refused to tell me and told me to look it up. So I Googled it. It basically means “True Name of our Creator”. I didn’t say much after this but…”Ok okay”.

Don’t get me wrong. I am a Christian. I believe in God, our Lord Jesus with all my heart. I was brought up in a Baptist church, baptized and still participate in church when I am not working so much. My parents even met each other in the same church I go to now. All my relatives and grandparents go there. So you can say, I am a religious person.

He then went on and described “YHWH”…that it is was written down by Moses before he freed the captives of Israel from Egypt and that it is the “proper” name of God.

I read his Blog about it, here on Xanga, and he was including things from the Wikipedia Dictionary. Which I thought was thought was weird because if I were trying to persuade someone to believe something about God, I don’t know, I would look in the Bible. Not in the dictionary for concrete evidence. It’s all right there! Im just saying, you could find anything in the dictionary.

Being the Christian that I am I then told him, “That’s great. I am happy for you that you have found what you were looking for, but I am still going to pray to my God.” He then got angry and said, “You’re not ready to learn!” I even think he said something about being "brainwashed"...

First off, the 2 things I will never EVER debate about are RELIGION & POLITICS! Both are very controversial and I just rather agree to disagree because those topics will never go anywhere but to anger and grief and I really don’t have the time. Yes, if someone wants to sit down and seriously talk about my beliefs in my God or if they would like for me to hear things about their God, I would talk and I would listen. I have even listened to Jehovah Witnesses (But only cause I didn’t want to be rude and walk away). But I will not sit down and listen to someone that is going to try and persuade me to deter from the God I have been praising and worshipping to for 25yrs (Or however the age when I accepted the Lord into my life) of my life. It’s not going to happen.

This man said he has always believed in God but now he has researched further and found He was called another name. But why just still continue to call Him God if They are the same person? Why change his name because you read what someone wrote down in the dictionary? But that’s just me.

I am happy my friend found what he is looking for, but, please do not get angry and tell me “I am not ready”. I am not disagreeing that what he has researched is wrong. But I will say, I dont believe in it and dont want to hear anymore. So I said "Let's agree to disagree".

I have a very strong faith with MY God. I was always ready, been ready and can't wait to go home to be with my Lord because He is the ONLY one that will judge me on Judgment Day. I will believe what I want and he (my friend) will want he wants, but at the end only One Man Will Judge Us All! You can call Him whatever names if you want...to me he always was and always will be GOD.

Thank You & Amen!

Girly Girl Ova Hur

I just love being a girly girl!

I have been one since I can remember. When I was younger, I remember I couldn’t WAIT to get my first purse! Every woman wore one and that’s what I wanted! I believe I got my first purse when I turned 11. That was a big year for me…I started my period! All I had to put inside my new purse was 10 different lip-gloss’s (I was ADDICTED to lip gloss), maxi pads and a wallet with fake credit cards inside (Haha).

I wore my little dresses and skirts and always had my lips shining with tons of lip-gloss! You couldn’t tell me it was too much cause I knew I was so cute! You wouldn’t DARE catch me playing a sport with the guys or the “tomboys” or getting dirty! I was sitting down with the other girls, putting on lip-gloss and talking about boys. I watched my mother put on her makeup and couldn’t wait until the day I had my own.

I didn’t start wearing makeup until college. I really never had a reason why…but then again…who needs a reason!

Now I love wearing makeup. I started watching Make Up Artists on YouTube doing makeup tutorials and have learned so much. From the foundation to the blush and lipstick. They are amazing! My fav is Marlena and you can find her at www.makeupgeek.com! She is fantastic!

I just love everything about being a girl!

I love shopping and coordinating all my clothes. I am a fanatic when it comes to my jewelry and my purses…and makeup! Those are the 3 things I never let people borrow because if they don’t give it back…it’s going to be a problem. I rather have my clothes borrowed than those things. I just bought 2 purses in a week and I was so excited about them! My clothes, jewelry and purse all have to go together. For some reason I am not into buying shoes like a lot of women are. I can be satisfied with 2 pairs in every color of the rainbow. One in flats and the other in heels. That’s it. I don’t need the strappy thingy thing and knee boots. I just don’t care too much! Don’t know why.

I love putting on my makeup in the morning. I have been blessed to have great skin so I don’t need foundation (But I do put on when I am going to a special event) so I pick pretty eye shadows colors. Put on my eye shadow primer, and base, a pretty color on the lid, something in crease and a creamy highlighter. Put on a great outfit with dangly earrings and a great purse and I am set to go!

I just get excited thinking about it!

Who else out there is a girly girl??

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