{"id":9038,"date":"2014-02-04T08:04:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T13:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=9038"},"modified":"2014-02-04T13:26:26","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T18:26:26","slug":"facebook-turns-10-and-blog-turns-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/facebook-turns-10-and-blog-turns-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook turns 10 — and Blog turns 9!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span>t’s the heart of the birthday season at our house. Simon last Saturday, Lucas this Saturday, Tristan in a couple of weeks, my mom just before that.<\/p>\n

For some curious reason, late winter is also social media-versary season for me. As you might have heard in the media, Facebook turns 10 today <\/a> with 1.23 billion users – and how much do I love that it’s the same age as Simon? Truth be told, it’s hard to imagine life before either of them! It was a little over three years later that I “discovered” Facebook and signed up<\/a> for my own account just a few days after Tristan’s fifth birthday: March 16, 2007. I must have had some time on my hands that day to collect shiny online baubles and logins, because I also signed on to Twitter for the first time that very same day! Until today, I had completely forgotten that I’d signed up for both on the same day.<\/p>\n

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And a few years before that, on February 2, 2005 (nine years ago this past Sunday!) freshly back to work after my maternity leave with Simon, I caprciously launched into the cyber-ether my very first blog post<\/a>. Nine YEARS of blogging, peeps!<\/p>\n

That’s 2,405 blog posts, 27K blog comments approved, 21K tweets, and let’s not even talk about the hours lost to Facebook, shall we? (Oh, and since we’re taking inventory: more than 4,600 photos on Flickr<\/a>, too!)<\/p>\n

A short list of things I did not have nine years ago when I created this blog:<\/p>\n