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Update: As some of you know, Mary and I was in a fire 16 days ago. I have some great news! Mary and I have found a new place to live! However, we also found out that we could only recover about 50% of everything we had from the fire. That means we were not able to recover all of our clothes, our kitchen stuff, our furniture, our bed, and our desks. So, we are going to need your help as much as possible! Mary and I got a new bank account specifically for donations/funds. If any of you interested to help out, you can send money via PayPal by going to www.thomsenyoung.com and click on donation under Thomsen and Mary Fire Donation or send us store gift cards or clothes or anything. Please inbox me for information and mailing address. Thank you! It would be greatly appreciated! 

We would love to take the time to thank many of you who has helped us out by helping us with a temporary place to stay to the American Red Cross to our family and friends who are helping us get through this difficult experience! Thank you! Mary and I cannot wait to move into our new place and get settled on Monday.

If you want my mailing address to send me something or holiday cards, please email me. 

Again, we thank you for all your help! :-)

GET TO KNOW YOU TOO MUCH- GTKYTM. 

If there's one thing that I'm afraid of is GTKYTM.  There are some people out in the world that shares way too much personal information about themselves and sometimes their significant others. 

I'm not saying I'm against sharing information,  but too much of it.  Some people live off of knowing every little details about your life.  Some people live happier knowing very little about your life. 

Some need a little of both.

GTKYTM is becoming a problem in the United States especially now that we're in the mobile digital age.  Majority of most Americans report that they have a Facebook account.  And if they don't,  you can be sure that today's teenagers will sign up and have an Instagram account (which again is owned by Facebook). 

GTKYTM is when overload of your personal information is share publicly without the need of strict permission.  In other words,  Facebook allows you to bypass that by allowing you to share everything and just too much of anything.  Including allowing users and potential employer to research about what you like and dislikes. 

Yet,  we have reach the point where Americans just can't help themselves and they have a need to know what's going on or must need to know more about a specific individual.  It's not exactly a disease; yet,  it's not exact an epidemic either. 

GTKYTM need a fair and balanced approach.  How that should be implemented should be discovered with an open discussion between all walks of life,  yet,  it should be blunt as well. 

Simple. 

Keep it as a "on a need to know" mentality should do the trick.