Facebook Blasts Me to the Past

I opened a Facebook account the other day. I know, I know. It seems like something that I would have done, oh, say, last year. Was never into MySpace...I like good design and I've never seen a MySpace page that didn't look like web puke from 1995.

So, I get my 'Facepage' set up for the world to see and start playing around with it. The search functions are pretty cool, so I start looking to see if there is anyone on from my company, then grad school, then college, and finally high school (no results...not really a surprise...my HS was small...lots of facepages for kids still going to the school, though.) Anyway, Facebook did help me reconnect with some people from college, which was cool (good talking to you again, Steve!) and just brought back some good memories, which I guess is the whole point of social networking. I did make a little mistake, however. I accidentally added my ex to my Facepage.

How the hell did that happen, Lex? Well, Facebook has this automatic add friend feature that basically goes out and scans your Yahoo or Gmail or other web-based e-mail account (with your permission, of course) and matches on people you have in your address book. And, me...well, being me, I didn't read all the fine details and must have sent her an invite. And she accepted.

So, now we're "friends"...well, according to Facebook, anyway. ;)

-la