I struggle with this.
A lot.
I’m a man of convenience. This is pretty much a bad thing for pretty much every reason. I also can “assume” that people have heard things or know things even though there’s no reason for them to be aware of those things.
Does that make sense? Perhaps this cartoon will explain:
How are you being more social in the “right” ways? Are you using the right “tools?”
Lori says
Umm yeah except change the woman and man in my case. Hubby wants nothing to do with social media, ha.
Scott Magdalein says
You must have a good man on your hands. 🙂
Adam Shields says
This is exactly why @tamishields got on Twitter. She joined as my Christmas present a year ago. Once I tell someone something I often don’t remember who I told it to, and assume I told everyone. Whether it is on twitter or not. Gets bad when I tell my sister-in-law my schedule (I am the nanny for her daughters, so she does need to know) but forget to tell my wife.
I am working on it.
dewde says
More like it was a gift to HER. And us (maybe).
peace | dewde
dannyjbixby says
Obviously her fault.
Josh Miles says
hahahahaha!
brett barner says
Wow, I laughed too hard at this. haha~!
Josh Miles says
It’s that way with my wife and I, except it’s the other way around. I found out once we had house guests for 4 days from her Facebook status. What?
Jared Erickson says
I get in trouble all the time because I forget to tell my wife something and of course I say ” I tweeted about it earlier” … tell your wife whats up people..
PhillipGibb says
yip, I went and told everyone when our child was due, blogged it, before checking with my wife who had not even told all the family of even her boss and colleagues. I got into trouble. But then again I am the kind of person who thinks about telling someone something, never gets around to it, and then it sits in my memory as if I had actually said it.
SamMahlstadt says
yep, guilty of a similar sin. Tweeted that we were pregnant before my wife had told everyone she wanted to. she got a bunch of congratualtory facebook messages but hadn’t told her friends yet. #fail
PhillipGibb says
ha ha ha, I gotta get my wife to comment on this ….
dannyjbixby says
I think that’s the universal first reaction we’ve all had to this 😉
Kyle Reed says
I feel like this happens to me a lot. I tend to have a hard time transferring things that i have been talking on my blog about and twitter stream to those who do not read my blog or my twitter stream. Often times I just assume they are familiar or sometimes it is the opposite and they have been stalking me and I had no clue. Weird how that all works.
David Knapp says
Okay this is not how it should work in a marriage. I talk my wife’s ear off and in person. I expect other people to read my facebook updates if they want to get to know me. 🙂
Nick Shoemaker says
I am so BUSTED!
I’ve told my wife- more than once- that yes we had talked about it, I tweeted it.
Crap.
I’m going to get AmieShoe to comment here. She’ll love it.
Amie Shoemaker says
OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS MY HUSBAND!!!!! I didn’t know he was so well known that they made a comic strip about him…ha ha… But luckily he has a very teachable spirit when God chooses to show him things, so thanks Jon 🙂 Love you Nick 😉
dannyjbixby says
Bahahahahaha.
I mean, sorry about Nick. I blame the internet.
dewde says
Whatever Danny. I say blame Nick! Visiting spouses are /always/ right.
🙂
peace | dewde
Josh Miles says
I agree. Visiting spouses are ALWAYS right. 🙂
Nick Shoemaker says
pwnd indeed!
Scott Magdalein says
Whew! Choosing the “right” outlets is daunting.