I’ve been on facebook since very near the beginning, May 2004.  I was on facebook when it was only open to a few colleges.  It’s growth has been staggering.  With it’s growth has come ridiculous applications and people spending too much time on things that don’t matter, such as the ridiculous One million against the New Facebook initiative.  I’m constantly flabbergasted by the things people spend their time on, but in my opinion, there are lots of good things about facebook.  I’m certainly guilty of wasting time on some inane functions of facebook, but I try to keep it down to general keeping in touch with people that matter to me on some level.  That’s what is great about Facebook, so many people are on it that it’s easy to get an update or message someone you’ve been out of touch with whenever the urge strikes.  I took the opportunity for this blog to familiarize myself with the “new facebook” since I hadn’t gotten the chance to do that yet.  I think it’s fine.  Everyone rebels when they change something in a major way and this is no exception.

I’ve consistently, purposefully avoided other social networking sites.  MySpace seems to have an ugly format and since I already have facebook and a blog, I don’t feel the need to do MySpace as well.  I think the music functions are cool and I do visit up and coming artists there to get samples of their music, but I’m generally not interested in having another online presence.