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I have resisted the urge to get a Facebook for months now. Frankly, getting another online journal to waste my already limited free time didn’t seem too wise. Additionally, I still had a Myspace I regularly updated, and felt that that was more than adequate to post my rants and raves on.

For those of you still not in the know, Facebook is an online networking site in which students organize themselves by schools, interests, and mutual friends. Users post multiple pictures of themselves and their friends on their own profiles, and can comment on their friends’ "walls," a sort of message board/chatterbox center. Myspace is more of an individual-oriented site, more like the Xanga and other web logs of years past.

One fine day, all of that changed. I had some time with a computer, not too much stuff left to accomplish, and an adequate supply of caffeine.

It started so quickly. All I needed was a school, an email, a password, and I was on. Within a matter of hours, I had thirty-five friends, and had joined twenty groups. I was hooked.

Facebook is more than a blog: it’s a way to connect with people. Friends that had graduated last year suddenly reintroduced themselves into my life.