A Travel Highlight

There were many travel highlights over the past several weeks as we traveled in England and cruised the Baltic Sea.  One of these highlights was meeting a Facebook Friend “face-to-face.”  

We visited our granddaughter Katie in Wales three years ago.  While there we also traveled to Yorkshire to visit some of Liam’s family and friends.  Liam’s mother became a Facebook friend at that time.  This made it possible for some of her Facebook friends to read my posts which appeared on her Timeline.  The result of this was that one of her friends became my Facebook friend.  

Over these past three years I’ve come to know this Facebook friend through her various posts as she has come to know me.  It was one of the highlights of this trip to Yorkshire to finally meet Amanda “face-to-face.”

We often criticize social media and talk of the potential dangers, but we ought also to lift the positive side.  What a joy it is to be able to “literally” visit with Katie and Liam “across the pond” via FaceTime.  What a miracle it is to be able to come to know someone you have never met.  Social media does have a positive side.