face in a book

there is absolutely nothing wrong with facebook; it has benefits. since making the decision not to keep up with everyone social networking style, however, i have found my face in books! instead of the collective times per day it took me to update my status, i have read more than a few books since 2011 began but i've also taken an art class, done more paintings, spent more time outside, made new friends... i also discovered i like the pace of blogging. for me, i can still see pictures posted by fellow-bloggers and what they're up to; things they're thinking about. it's just not as fast-paced and doesn't necessarily include which kind of milk they just put on their cereal (no offense if you just posted that to your social networking site). but it does inhabit a rich world of shared concepts and images which i find interesting and mutual. if you don't check a blog for twenty minutes you don't feel like you missed important details and you can more easily regulate the comments given and received. do i miss out on some great tidbits from the 268 online friends i once had? likely. would i trade it for face to face conversation and books? hardly.