A thing or two about facebook

When I was in college, I vaguely remember hearing something about Facebook. It was something about sharing information with other people and didn't think much on it, because I was more focused on things like graduating as opposed to something on the internet.

That was seven years ago (yeah, that long ago) and now Facebook is all over the place. I enjoy hoping on there once or twice a day to see what is going on with people I am 'friends' with. It's a great way to keep in touch with extended family members I do not get to see very often. The biggest thing I have against Facebook is how people just add and add and add 'friends' until they have hundreds if not thousands of people that they are connected with. Now, I understand people that run a business or are in social groups that use Facebook for ways to get information out, but just people like me, I don't think having tons of 'friends' is all that important. It's fun to see people that type up a status along the lines of 'if you are reading this, you survived the friends purge.'. I've given up on that. I just delete people from my list because there is little interaction. Right now, I sit at right around one hundred and sixty friends on Facebook. And every time I look at my list, I try to find someone here or there that I don't interact with or that aren't very active and unfriend them. Do I care? Not really. I still think I have too many friends, but what can you do?

What is the main idea of Facebook? Many people play games on it, some people just try to get as many friends as possible. Personally, I use it to keep tabs on family. It's great to see what family members that I only see maybe two or three times a year are up to. It is really difficult to live as far away as we do at times, but Facebook does allow us to at least keep up on the biggest news, so that is good, despite the coldness and distance the internet provides.









So, congratulations Facebook. At least you allow me to snoop in on what my extended family is doing. Even if you are something that I could live without.