Calvin convinced me the other day that I should sign up for a Facebook, which as it turns out is a much less tacky alternative to MySpace, which I have sworn to loathe for all eternity.

I immediately saw that it could be a useful tool to find and stay in touch with old friends and acquaintances from college and before. Already I have one friend I knew from elementary school and one from middle school on my “friend list,” and I’m waiting on several more whom I knew from ages ago to accept my “friend invite,” or shall I say, to see if they remember who I am. The only downside to finding old friends this way is that until they are your friend, the only information you can view is their name, network, picture, and their friend list - meaning if their are 20 Sarah Jones’s (for example) it could be any of all or some of them, or none of them because they don’t even have a Facebook - or they got married and changed their last name. It takes a bit of sleuthing at times, by identifying one person whom you know to be the correct one, then looking at their friend list to see if they have anyone you know, or if you suspect someone is the right person, looking at their friend list to see if they have a sister or brother that you remember they had on it, or perhaps another mutual friend….etc. It’s kinda fun actually. It’d be nice to be able to view the basic info at least though, or at least something to go on.

I’m sure it will also be nice when I find all the youth in the youth ministry who have Facebooks - although I bet many have MySpace accounts, I just refuse. I’ve never seen a MySpace I liked the layout and look of - I can feel my eyes burning just thinking about it.

Anyways, it’s been fun fiddling around with it today, uploading some photos, playing with my profile, etc, etc.