On March 9th, we introduced viewers to Karen Gatesman, a Horry County Woman who gave up something a little different for lent.
She began cutting back weeks prior to Ash Wednesday, she says. Then, 40 days ago, Gatesmen took the plunge to go Facebook She began cutting back weeks prior to Ash Wednesday, she says.
She says she didn't log on once in the past month and a half.
There were some things she said she missed about the social networking site.
"I would have loved to have posted things that were going on. My daughter won second place in a track meet and I would have loved to post that one free for the entire length of the lent season.
Karen logged back onto Facebook first thing Easter this morning. She joins more than 500 million active users, with half of them logging in each day.
Facebook says people spend more than 700 billion minutes per month on the site.
