1st report from Facebook.

Well, I've been fooling around in facebook for a little over a month now and I've been feeling like I should say something about it and my goals for it.

First of all Facebook is a lot more fun than I thought it would be. The games are addicting at first, although the real trick is to start them; leave them for a couple of days, then come back. My big problem with all the games is that I can't seem to get a large number of friends to play them with me. I kinda wish that I would get more invites to play games with others, but I wonder if people consider it rude to continually send game invites to othersd. I try not to send game invites willy/nilly, because I know that some people just don't play the games. Nevertheless I sure don't want a large number of friends that I don't know just so I can get a large number of people playing with me.

Which leads me into my next little concern with Facebook, friends. There certainly are a lot of people I know on Facebook. Some of them I've invited to be part of my friend list right off the bat, while others I just stand back and let them invite me; it's kind of like a high school reunion were you keep hoping the popular people will walk up to you and start a conversation, but you won't do it yourself because you don't want to appear needy. Its been kinda awkward like that. Anyway, I've also been getting invites of people that I don't really remember and that I accept them in the hopes that I will remember them eventually or they might say something that will help me remember them. So far I seem to be the guy the remembers everything about almost everyone and I feel a bit the loser, because I like to talk about the memories (maybe I should change my major to some sort of history since I seem to have a knack for remembering useless information).

Nice segway into my next bit. One thing that Facebook has been great for has been the ability to get to know more about people that I know/knew, and for me to try out my quick wit (with very weak results, don't worry I don't plan on quiting my day job and moving to stand-up). The thing is that there are going to be a lot of people that don't seem to get on Facebook as much as others. For one, as you can imagine, get on the Internet quite a bit. I use the Internet for almost everything I do in life from watching TV, paying bills, shopping, bargain hunting and keeping up with friends and family; It doesn't take much of a stretch for me to open a second window and pull up Facebook. I also update my status at least once a day, I do it from my phone, using Twitter, as you can read on the sidebar. There are others that don't seem to jump onto it for months at a time. I added a friend as soon as I got on, he accepted the request a week later, I asked him a question, he responded me two weeks later, I asked him another question and, well, I'm still waiting for him to get back to me. He isn't the only one like that. Having people that consistently update makes the whole Facebook experience fun, because it makes you feel more part of a community, while the slow-pokes do make you feel part of the community just at a snail's pace.

One use of Facebook that I've really wanted to explore has been the airing of old questions. Sometimes when I'm with friends will we start recollecting and as we go through our old memories we find that we remember the same situation completely different. When that happens I want to get in contact with a third party and see what they think. It's a lot of fun for me to find out all the angles of memories and it thrills me how people see things. I haven't explored this option to any great extent, but I really want to. I still don't know how others feel with regards to dredging up old memories, not painful memories, just old memories.

Well, I think that covers it for now, perhaps in a couple more weeks I will be able to ramble on about Facebook some more.