Behold the Power of Facebook

Being in PR, reading almost every day about the power and speed of communication via social networking web sites, I thought I understood how quickly information can spread across the internet...until Sunday.

My girlfriend and I got engaged two Saturdays ago (YAHOO!!). Crazy excited, we rushed from house to house to tell family and jumped on cell phones to tell friends. Then came this question: When do we change our Facebook status? (Of course, there were millions of other way more important questions...but read: sarcasm) We waited a week to make sure we at least spoke with most everyone by phone and then, on Sunday, we officially changed our status on Facebook (dun dun duuuun).

Within just a few hours, we both had so many comments on our walls, it was ridiculous. Now, I'm not a huge Facebook user, so maybe this sort of thing happens all the time, but all these people came out of the woodwork in such a short amount of time. People I haven't spoken to in years posted their congrats. And then, bam, Jeremy Pepper, my talented and funny colleague in San Francisco puts his congrats up there on the board and compelled me to write this entry.

I've known that word travels fast on those sites, but the engagement news was wildfire, and really cool to see. I'm glad we waited a week instead of jumping the gun without telling everyone we needed to first.

I know this isn't much of a post, but I'm still on the engagement high. I promise more frequent, more interesting posts.