I had a nice and strange surprise over the holiday break. I found out that Facebook, in its wisdom, had been screening my messages. Somehow they made the decision that certain people were my ‘close friends’ and others were not based on no input from me. when someone from the first group sent me a message, i was notified immediately. When someone from the second group sent me a message i never saw it. Instead it was relegated to some cyber-siberia nested several buttons deep on your profile. I might never have known this had i not bee alerted by a little balloon message that popped up the other day when i was responding to a message which asked me if I wanted to browse my ‘other’ messages. To my surprise there were hundreds and hundreds of messages id never seen.. Some going back to 2011. Most of them turned out to be from folks who had seen The Colony either in reruns, in other countries or on netflix. Many started with the phrase ‘you don’t know me …but ….’ Almost all of them were about the stuff we made on the show and the science behind it… Some were questions, others were appreciations, some were folks just saying hi. It took a few hours, but i responded to every one of them. id heard from so many kids, parents, teachers, and other nerds like myself. It made me feel really good that the maker/science message had come through despite all the other goofy stuff on the show.
I guess i should have been mad at Facebook fr hiding these notes… But it was so much fun reading them all in one sitting that i almost felt i owed them a thank you card.. Funny how that worked out…
Anyway…

Nite all, nite sam
-me

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