Stay In Touch

I hate to admit it, but I have bought into the information super highway by way of having a Myspace page, a Facebook, and even a Twitter account that I constantly check. What would we do without our constant ways of keeping up with all of our confidants? Who knows. We pretend that this is our way of keeping in contact and for the most part it is. I comfort myself with that thought. How else would I keep up with all of my friends from high school and their growing families and adult accomplishments? So I labored under the assumption that this is just how we communicate these days and that I am very "in touch" with my friends, until today.
Yesterday, I made a "comment" on Facebook to a friend of mine about her status update. It said something like, " I just couldn't get any sleep last night". She was just recently married and her honeymoon was over just a few weeks ago so I assumed that the newly-wed syndrome was keeping her awake. So I cracked a little joke in the comment box about how she should control her new hubby long enough to get some sleep. I have known her for some time and I wasn't worried that she would find it offensive. Knowing her, she would have gotten a really good laugh out of it.
Today I received a text with an inbox message from my friend. (Yes Facebook and Twitter notifies me every time I get a hit on them because I am, for sure, addicted) In her message she starts off with, "I guess you hadn't heard". I should have known I was in trouble right then. You guessed it. They are going to get divorced after just a few weeks of marriage. Of course I was shocked and saddened by the news thinking how terrible it must be to think that this is the guy for you only to have him severely disappoint you and then in turn divorce ensues. She explained a bit of the issue in the message knowing that if she didn't that I would certainly write her back to ask. Instantly I wrote her back telling her just how much of an ass I felt like by writing the joke and she responded back stating that she didn't mind because I didn't know. She did assume that we all knew because of the information that is posted day after day on our Facebook pages, so she was the one that was shocked when I had no idea of her current dilemma. Moral of the story is, don't assume anything, because, as they used to say, it definitely makes an ASS out of U and ME.
Until next time, Stay in touch for REAL.