My Facebook Ghost Writer

I am your basic "deaf-mute" on Facebook. It is a term that sounds so much nicer than "Lurker". I joined Facebook because everyone else was and I wanted to know what the latest cool website was all about. I am so old I can remember when Facebook was only for college students. I was working at a Community College and I had an .edu extension on my e-mail address so I received an invitation to facebook before it opened to the general public. Anyway, I digress... I have never planked, taken pictures of the food I was about to eat, or posted pictures of the tips of my toes with the sunset in the background. trust me, no one wants to see a beautiful sunset picture ruined by my ugly toes. I do not actively post political rants or what I am thining every three minutes for the rest of the world to hear or take pictures of the glorious tuna sandwich that I had for lunch today. I mostly look at other peoples' posts and pictures and then either ask myself how do they have so much time on their hands or "really??? Do they really think anyone cares what they had for lunch?" It is safe to say that if you scrolled through my Facebook Timeline you would see one or two comments every three months, but nothing more. At least until recently. It started out innocent enough with the Facebook Check-In. My wife Dana is a Facebook user and when we would go out to dinner or on vacation or even nowadays to Starbucks it seems, my wife will check in. At first it was just her, but as you might guess, most of the time when we go out to dinner we are together, so she checks me in too. This prompted comments from friends like "I love that restaurant too" or "Looks like you're having fun" that I would see clutter my e-mail inbox and then delete them. Then the pictures starting showing up. Dana would post a picture of something and then tag me in the photo, too. Now, I have friends, some of the friends that are only my friends from the "Days before Dana" stage of my life that are commenting on photos that I did not post but are tagged with my name. It has been interesting to see the comments. And I have received more comments from friends I had not heard from in months and years than I have in the previous four years of Facebook. I guess it is still a simple truth from as old as when my grandmother told me. If you want to get a letter in the mailbox, then you have to write letters to other people, too. If you enjoy getting that Facebook message that someone has commented on something you have done, than you better do something! Just don't forget to take a picture of it and post it on Facebook. Or have a ghost writer.