Social networking

I just joined Facebook in order to be in touch with a friend who works in Boston in the same kind of engineering that Tom does. I usually shy away from the social networking. I remember a very social friend years ago would invite ALL of his friends to join Friendster and LinkedIn. At the time, I didn't need any job contacts and even if I did, none of my friends were educators. So social networking to me was useless to me back then. Since only my friends who knew a zillion people did social networking, I viewed it as only a shallow way to keep in touch. It wasn't as cool or as popular as it is now.

So what have I done? I've squandered the past hour looking around Facebook to see what the hubbub is all about. I shouldn't really say "squander" except that given my list of priorities, tinkering with Facebook probably shouldn't be what I'm doing right now. It's the updated version of checking my email all day with the hope of a new message. Bob's page seems fun and I can see the addiction -- poking, throwing pastries, high fiving. In fact, I'm probably starting down the road of getting hooked. But I have so much to do this spring, packing, moving, if not blog some of my deeper thoughts about the move. And ironically it's the moving that got me in touch with old friends and what got me to finally join Facebook and "lose" the last hour of my life.