ODE TO FACEBOOK

Whoever created Facebook was a genius. There, I said it. I’m a Facebook fan. Even though everyone pretends it’s a ridiculously stupid thing, everyone loves it! You know who you are! Where else can you comfortably stalk people you knew from 3rd grade?! Now I know that there are a number of “friend finders” out there like MySpace and LiveJournal etc., but I like Facebook the best.

I have to admit I was hesitant about joining all the way back in my Junior year of college, but my good friend Laura told me great things about it so I had to see what it was all about. Within hours of creating an account, I was an addict. I pulled up every decent looking picture of me on my computer and began cropping it to replace the question mark in my profile picture. I was frantically searching every college and high school in the nation that I thought I might know someone at to “poke” or add them as my friend. First you find all your friends you hang out with on a usual basis. Then you add your good friends from high school that go to other schools. Then you get out your yearbook and think of anybody else you “might” know who will at least recognize you and add them.

Facebook is great! It’s the only place that shows you have more friends than you really do. They’re called Facebook friends – you know, those people that you only acknowledged passing in the hallway or you were forced to work in a group with. They’re the people you really didn’t know at all, much less care about, but you want more schools and people under your friends panel, so you add them anyway! I have many Facebook friends.

I will fess up to the fact that I check my profile everyday and I do search my high school or college from time to time to see if anyone else I hadn’t added yet joined. But it kills me, these people from my past…I mean 20 years ago my past, who add me as their friend. It’s not like my profile comes up on the login page randomly with a message that says, “REMEMBER HER?! ADD AMY AS YOUR FRIEND!” No, you have to seriously type in the name of the person you want to search for. These long-time-ago friends have to be thinking of me to add. Kinda makes me feel special, but mostly just creeps me out.

Didn’t know I made that lasting of an impression for you to remember me from kindergarten! I’m serious! My best friend from Joseph Martin Elementary in Ms. Cavanaugh’s class, Sarah, added me to Facebook as her friend. So have many people from my 3-5th grade years in Georgia like both Bastone kids. The most recent was Josh, my Ft. Bragg buddy that lived across the parade field from us that evidently got hot and graduated from West Point. Hooah for you! See...you can find out so much through Facebook! And it’s not just been my previous friends that added me either…I think my sister Betsy’s whole posse from Wiesbaden definitely thought highly of both us Dail girls.

Anyway, for all you people that haven’t joined Facebook yet, jump on the bandwagon! Everyone’s doing it! But don’t be surprised when you get a message from that ugly guy that was really annoying from 6th grade asking where you live, what your social security number is, and if you wanna hang out…cause that happens….

Facebook 4 life!!!