Two apologies and a request

First, I won’t be speaking at BYU Education Week this year.  I genuinely regret that, but I had little choice:  I’ll be out of the country and the commute would simply be too long.  I’ve mentioned this before, but some likely missed my announcement.  I’m sorry to disappoint, or to provide reason for rejoicing.

If you want to hear me in Oslo, Norway, though, I’ll be speaking there on Sunday evening.

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Second, I’m trying to remind myself to check private messages on Facebook.  But I rarely do.  For those who have sent me such messages in the past, the odds are very high that I haven’t responded to you.  Please know that it’s not personal.  I just really don’t use Facebook much, except to “advertise” blog posts here and to respond to comments on the threads so generated.  For one thing, I’m a geezer and I’m not really into social media.  (I already spend more time on this blog and attendant discussions than I should.  By far.)  For another, I just don’t know much about Facebook.  I’ll try to do better.

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Finally, the request:

I learned only relatively recently that Facebook pages typically have a limit of 5000 friends.  My “personal” Facebook page is right up against that limit, and has been for months.  In fact, it’s bumped into it several times.  But I’ve been rejecting a lot of “friend” requests over the past two or three months, and have actually been “unfriending” people.  (For a long time, I simply accepted every “friend” request.  “What could it hurt?” I thought.  But I’m now rejecting such requests from people — most of them, appropriately enough in view of my manifest charms, attractive single women! — who plainly don’t know me and who show no actual sign of caring about any of the issues and subjects that I care about, and, to some extent, I’ve been pruning my “friend” list of such folks when I come across them.

I apologize if, while trying to minimize and eliminate “spam,” I’ve rejected a request from somebody who really did want to “friend” me for my insights, my gorgeousness, and my inspiring humility.

Still, though, I’ll soon run into that 5000-friend ceiling.

So what I’m asking is this:

If you’re not actually a friend “friend” but, for some bizarre reason, want to follow what I’m up to, what I’m publishing, what I’m posting on my blog, please consider going over to my other, much newer, Facebook page.  I’m told, though I don’t know whether this is true because, as I say, I really don’t know much about Facebook, that “liking” that page will do the trick.  And, as it’s a “Public Figure” page — my my, does that sound self-important! — there is no upper limit, of 5000 or any other arbitrary figure, to the number of people who can “like” it.

And it might even be helpful, I guess, if you’re not actually a relative or a neighbor or a real-world friend of mine, if you were to “unfriend” me on the first page when you’ve “liked” the other page.  That way, the first Facebook page will have more room for me to add “friends.”

Does that make sense?  Do I know what I’m talking about?  If anybody out there who actually knows much about Facebook can see that I’m doing something stupid, I would appreciate a swift and clear warning.

Thanks.