A while back I set up a Facebook account to see another page. (You have to have an account in order to see any real pages in Facebook). I thought nothing of it for another 6 months. Then, about a month ago, I got a friend request from a guy I knew in college. I went back on figured out who he was and added him to my friend list. Still I didn't do much with it. Then I got another two or three requests and when I went to check out my page it had recommended that I may know a bunch of other people. Lo and behold I did. Enter the magic of Facebook. Within 2 weeks I have 50 friends and probably 10 or 20 outstanding friend requests. Perhaps I need to take a step back.
Facebook is a (maybe the) social networking site. It is basically a really simple webpage you can use to keep track of a broad spread of people you know. You start by creating a page. Then you search for people. Once you have put in a few people Facebook begins to suggest that you may know. These suggestions are based on the relationships between your friends. The remarkable element of this whole thing is that it works.
So for the last week or two I have been diligently adding new friends. I have connected with old college and highschool friends and even got to chat with a friend that is currently on the other side of the planet. Sarah had been using my Facebook to poke around and look for her old friends and finally she broke down and created her own page last night. The really good news about Facebook is that you don't really have to spend much time with it. While it is kind of like a blog it is really only designed to be updated occasionally and only in very small entries, like a sentence or two.
I highly recommend checking it out. Facebook has made this massive appearance and has a really amazing breadth of users. I would be amazed if anyone could NOT find someone they knew. Give it a shot, if you are reading my blog you probably have a friend in me.
