Real is as real does... in Public

It's strange, I'm now friends with a lot of you on FB, and despite the fact that FB has your real name, usually some pictures of you and the family you've sometimes talked about here...it doesn't feel as real.

Because it isn't as real.

FB is pretty much about self-censorship and presenting a sanitized and/or glorified version of your life...unless you're one of those FB drama people...and we all have a few of those around. People only post pictures of new cars, adorable kids, dream vacations, gorgeously decorated homes. You don't see a whole lot of piles of dirty laundry, figurative or real.

We apparently all send our laundry out...or some of us bring it here.

But I just couldn't help but notice the irony of "real" connections between mostly anonymous people feels vs. the "not real" connections between "real people".