Facebook Anniversary

December 1st, is my one year anniversary on Facebook.

One Year of Anita Writes fan page and 'Anita Writes' the person.

One year. One controversial year. One tumultuous Anita Writes year. One year of my truth, raw, often vulnerable, controversial and whimsical posts.

One Year of Anita Writes​.

So...how would I rate my one year on Facebook?

Well...here it goes. Extra long post ahead...stay tuned.

1. Friends have come and gone. 

Yes. After several ploys to persuade my FB "friends" to support my baby, my blog - "Anita Writes" and way too many side chatter (Those FB folks sure know how to gossip) I decided to guard my friends list jealously. Surely, I could go on celebrity status and accept the 300 plus requests I have but...I personally handpicked my audience. I want them to be like my family, my FB friends. Isn’t that what FB is supposed to be about? Reconnecting Friendships. Building friendships.

2. The Highs??!!

Thankfully, I have had quite a few awesome moments this year peppered with the insurmountable lows. The new sensual spoken word blog on Tumblr. The trip to The Hague. Weekend in Brussels. Spontaneous trip to Lille. Dream Come True Trip to Paris. I haven't even shared some of the hilarious videos on the blog. And I took them with the intention to document the awesomeness of my trip - my life events. Got back and I happened to only want to share them with me in my lonesome moments. Some things are private, I suppose. The new friends I made, internationally, I hope to see again. They prove that we live in a great big colorful world. Now, the new job that has sapped me of any creativity, made it almost impossible to write. All add up to my year. You guys were here through Anita's drama and you spread your love and light and made those dreams possible. 

3. The AnitaWrites event. 

My aversion to FB initially was a privacy thing. My privacy was nonexistent to me as a blogger. People knew the blog and they knew me. They rarely connected the personal me, to the me that writes the blog and that gave me creative license to write whatever I wanted. But with FB you are faced with your audience and man, can they be finicky. People on FB enjoy reading a different type of material. Propaganda, gossip, politics. FB has one of the worst readerships I have ever experienced. At times I wished I could enjoy writing those topics just so I get more hits but it doesn't work that way. The originality of content of Anita Writes has kept it thriving for years and if I continue building it, soon enough they will come. 

4. My overall summary of FB. 

FB is for happy folks. People that are happy with their lives. Don't get me wrong I don't begrudge them those blessed lives. I just want to know you in the "in between" moments - the moments when you cry, the moments when you're afraid, confused, the moments when life doesn't make sense, the moments when hate consumes this world and you just wish life could get a grip, the in between moments. We don't all live in happy moments, we experience some real moments, moments when we hurt, wonder, need a friend, any body to reach out and touch (as the Diana Ross song says) the moments when we need God to pay attention and we need everybody to say with us - Dear God, Imma need you to pay attention for this one moment because I need this, the world needs this. FB is not the place for that. And if you’ve shared your hurt on FB, your raw emotion I commend you and I will always be a big fan of you for bringing us into your lives. If you haven't, who are you kidding? You know we all hurt, we all bleed. That moment you bleed out in the open, the treatment may come from the most unusual places.So I look forward to your moment of vulnerability.

I'm going to continue being REAL. I hope you continue hanging in there while I am. And if you haven't become a fan of Anita Writes on Facebook, what are you waiting for?

---Peace, Love and Light in the best possible way. #AnitaWrites #AllLove