I finally got my face on Facebook. But after a couple of weeks of being on Facebook I have to admit I just don't get it. I do value my friends who have hooked up with me in cyber-space...deeply! But people spend hours doing this? And I thought blogging (and the endless reading of blogs) could get ridiculous.
Maybe I'm just old or really out of touch with reality. Oh, I know it is about community and social networking and that it's growing by 100,000 members a week with 2,000,000 members world-wide (500,000 of them in Toronto alone, making it the center of the Facebook Universe...).
But thanks to Yoni Goldstein, I finally understand what Facebook is all about:
"The following is a list of the things you can do on Facebook: You can (a) post pictures of yourself, (b) find long lost friends whom you never really cared about anyways (that's why they became long lost in the first place), (c) post messages to your Facebook friends on their Facebook sites (important communiques like "Happy Birthday" or "that party last night rocked!"). You can also (d) cyber-bully the trusty nerds at school or (e) slander all the people you dislike."
That's just about what I had gathered through my brief Facebook career. Now just in case Yoni is misinformed, please let me in on the big secret, because on my own I don't think I'm going to figure it out. Maybe I'm just not post-modern enough. Or maybe I have a life. :)
PS: Yoni also says that Ontario has banned government employees from accessing the Facebook website from government computers (along with YouTube, gambling, and porn). Something about productivity issues...hmmm...I better get back to work...
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