Good Things about FB

The FB I am referring to here is Facebook. Yesterday on MSN I read about a bunch of ways Facebook can benefit you. Facebook can help you find a job, a love match, and raise your self-esteem by helping you project your best image. You can join a group of fitness enthusiasts, also called accountability groups for support and encouragement in reaching fitness goals. I am a part of one of these groups. You can get info on places to travel and keep in touch with far flung friends and family. I wasn't going to blog about this until I saw today that the Burger King Baby, whose photo and plea to find her birth mother I first saw on FB yesterday, made the MSN news feed today. Facebook helped her reconnect with the mother who gave her up all those (27) years ago at of all places, Burger King. The reunion was for all accounts a good one though most of the details were kept out of the news. With social media privacy in the matter may not last long but at least there was a happy ending in this search. I have seen and, yes, shared many a photo with plea attached regarding loved ones looking for answers or a connection to folks they gave up or just lost over time. So facebook bashers, back off. Yes there may be downsides to social media but here is an example of the good side. Congrats to the Burger King Baby and her newly rediscovered family.