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The present population of the United States is just over 300 million. The “population” of Facebook is over 500 million. According to their own press room, that’s just the number of active users. If it were a country, Facebook would be the third largest on earth (China and India being the first).   About a year ago, Facebook passed up Google as the most viewed website in the U.S.   How long has Facebook existed? Seven years. It was launched in 2004 by 19 year old Mark Zuckerberg as a networking site for college students at Harvard, and by the time it was fully opened to the public in 2006, it was the seventh most popular site on the Internet.   Earth’s population is growing at a rate of about 357,000 babies born per day, and Facebook is growing at about double that number of new users per day.   One of the big questions that people have is, why? Why is Facebook growing so fast? What’s the big deal?   Perhaps the answer lies less in Facebook... Read the rest of this entry »

After doing the online dating scene for over a year now, I only started having some fun dates in the past three months. When I first started I was so worried the guys I was chatting with we’re psycho stalkers who wanted to slit my throat. Once I started meeting the guys I chatted with, I realized that I could trust my intuition. If I get a bad vibe about someone I’m chatting with, if they say something that makes me uncomfortable, or even if the conversation is just overly boring, I move on and stop talking to him. The trick in online dating is to know when to stop talking with one and move on. Ask serious questions as soon as possible. If you don’t get the answers you want, MOVE ON! There are tons of guys out there who ARE what you’re looking for. The process is very fast paced, and rightly so. There is no reason to keep talking to anyone if you’re not enjoying it. If you’re talking just to be nice, you’re wasting your energy. The odds are a new... Read the rest of this entry »

About 8 months ago I had a dinner date with a guy I’d met online. We texted for a while and even had a quick phone call. I could tell he was shy, but that’s not really a bad thing. We set up a time to meet after about two weeks. I met him at the entrance of the restaurant. I introduced myself and made sure he was the guy I was scheduled to meet. He confirmed he was the one waiting for me, turned around and quickly disappeared through the entrance. I was left standing for a second since he had done it so fast. I reached out and opened the door again since it had closed in my face. He then looked back to make sure I was following him as he went through the second set of doors. The second door almost closed in my face as well. I picked up the pace to keep up with him, getting only a view of his back as he spoke with a waitress. By this point I was trying to remember what his face had looked like. The waitress picked up two menus and asked him to follow her. He glanced at me again,... Read the rest of this entry »

I went on a short date with a cute guy about two months ago and we seemed to get along well. The conversation over dinner flowed good and I was interested in him. He seemed like a sweet guy who worked hard, yet knew when to play. It was a fun time, but as dinner went on the click died a bit. I still liked him, but I was feeling that this would be our only date. Just one of those dates that doesn’t go anywhere, if you know what I mean. I could tell he didn’t detest me, he just wasn’t going to put any work into asking me out again. As he walked me to the door I thought, I don’t think I’ll see him again, but I had a good time. So as we both reached the front step I opened my arms up wide and leaned in to give him a hug. And… he kept walking! He took about five more steps and I, like a fool, figured he didn’t see me step up to hug him, so I kept my arms up for a few more seconds. Finally, I dropped them and thought, wow! Rejected! Then he suddenly turned... Read the rest of this entry »

The old, ‘wait a week to call back’ is just that… OLD. I went on a quick date with a very nice guy two weeks ago. We had a fun time and he mentioned he’d like to take me ice skating. He said he couldn’t this week, but would like to the week after. I said, “I’d love to, just give me a call and we’ll figure out a day to go.” A whole week and a half goes by. In that time I had a few more dates with a couple different guys and met the guy I mentioned in the last blog. So I’d almost entirely forgotten about this guy. I kind of figured he’d moved on too and wouldn’t be calling back. I finally got a call from him last Wednesday. He asked me to go ice skating on Friday. The problem was, at that point I’d already agreed to go see the temple lights with a new guy Friday, and the rest of the weekend was filled up with other obligations. So I felt bad but told him I couldn’t go this weekend anymore. If he had called... Read the rest of this entry »

Last Saturday I met a really nice guy. He has an excellent sense of humor, he’s real easy to talk to and he had no problem expressing to me up front that he’s always been chaste and temple worthy. I met him for lunch at Chilis and we had fun. I was a little thrown at how normal he was after my recent dramas with other guys. So after lunch we agreed to meet again. A day later, he texted me asking when he could see me again, and he had an idea in mind of what we should do already. Ooooh that’s so nice! We went to a star show at The Gateway Mall downtown, got dinner, then wondered around, shopping for a while. He has a lot of energy and I can tell he’s very intelligent. He was very good company and as the night went on, I became completely comfortable around him. Even before we’d met again for the second date he’d invited me to some see the temple lights with a few of his friends the following Friday. I was excited to see what he was like around people he... Read the rest of this entry »

I offended a guy yesterday pretty bad and am still confused as to how. We’d been txting and calling on and off for about a month and a half. Only once or twice a week and he was extremely busy with school so we were having a hard time finding a time to actually meet in person for the first time. I met him online and he seemed like a nice guy, but within the first couple dates I like to know if the guys I’m dating are temple worthy. It’s important for me to know since if I were to get serious with a guy, he’d have to be. I plan on getting married in the temple someday. Online dating makes it easier most the time since a profile will say right up front if the guy I’m looking at is or not. However, his profile did not. So yesterday, since we’d been having so much trouble meeting and even getting a hold of each other, I decided to just ask him straight out what I was wondering. I asked him if he was temple worthy, and this is basically the txt I got back: “You... Read the rest of this entry »

I offended a guy yesterday pretty bad and am still confused as to how. We’d been txting and calling on and off for about a month and a half. Only once or twice a week and he was extremely busy with school so we were having a hard time finding a time to actually meet in person for the first time. I met him online and he seemed like a nice guy, but within the first couple dates I like to know if the guys I’m dating are temple worthy. It’s important for me to know since if I were to get serious with a guy, he’d have to be. I plan on getting married in the temple someday. Online dating makes it easier most the time since a profile will say right up front if the guy I’m looking at is or not. However, his profile did not. So yesterday, since we’d been having so much trouble meeting and even getting a hold of each other, I decided to just ask him straight out what I was wondering. I asked him if he was temple worthy, and this is basically the txt I got back: “You... Read the rest of this entry »

On Thursday, June 26 (2008), I drove from my home in Arizona the several hours it took to arrive at 5:00 p.m. at Sandy, Utah’s Southe Towne Center. I was just in time for dinner at the Olive Garden. You know hanne_line? She is from Norway. She was visiting the United States. Since she was coming so far, she wanted to meet as many LDS.net members that could make it to the gathering. I sat across from HiJolly (and I found out that he and I are shirttail relatives!). Honor was on my right hand, and skalenfehl’s lovely wife was on my left. pam was diagonally across from me. The rest of the friends at the table were VisionofLehi, Fernni, hanne_linne, skalenfehl, Elphaba, Strawberry Fields, Nyal (and Nyal’s brother – not an LDS.net member – yet!), AND prisonchaplain (who was vacationing in Utah with his family and seeing Temple Square for the first time; prisonchaplain is from Washington). Honor even had checkerboy on the cell phone for a minute or two for a shout out. Jonathan, Karen... Read the rest of this entry »