Rough draft-recorded talk

It was my first day at Taylor county after Mannsville elementary school had been closed down. I only knew a few people in my class, which was a big adjustment to having the same twenty-five people in my class for the past three years. Everyday I would walk to class, lunch, and any other place I had to go looking at my feet while walking just to avoid eye contact with everyone. I never talked to anyone and getting called on in class was the worst thing possible. That never really change until high school when I got a Facebook and started to use it. I used Facebook as a kind of buffer to help me to learn how to talk to people, even when I couldn't actually talk to them in person. As the time went on, I learned how to talk to people face to face, which has been an amazing improvement to what I was like when I was in fourth grade.

Throughout my whole Facebook career it has helped me to learn how to talk to people and allowed me to do more things that I wouldn't have thought possible even a few years ago. It all started when I first made my Facebook account in March of 2009. It was near the end of my freshman year and I was still as shy as  I was in the years before. I first started talking to people on there after I started dating my ex-boyfriend Zak. Even with him I had problems talking, it was just so hard for me to get out what I wanted to say because of how nervous I always felt. Facebook was the only way I was able to talk to him, so I allowed it to act as a buffer so I might eventually be able to talk to him face to face. We started talking there, and eventually I could even talk to him in person, even eventually to where I was able to talk to him when it was just the two of us, which I found to be much harder than talking to him with a group of our friends.

After he broke up with me, I was completely devastated and wouldn't talk to almost anyone again for a little under a month. I once again started using Facebook as a buffer to talk to people. At first it was just my family and friends. Then I started talking to people I didn't know very well again. That was when I met my current boyfriend, who I have been dating for the past three years.

Throughout these past three years since I met Ryan, I have talked to even more people on Facebook, and it has been able to do extraordinary things for me. Thanks to Facebook acting as a buffer for between me and people, I was able to be in drama my junior and senior year, which ended up being a lot of fun for me. I was also able to participate in Distinguished Young Women, August of my senior year, which was one of the most amazing things I did in school. Facebook was the main thing that helped me to come out of my shell over the past few years. If not for it, none of what I have done would  have ever been possible.