Facebook

I went to lunch with a friend last week who convinced me to give Facebook a try.  I already have a myspace page, and I honestly can't stand myspace, so I didn't feel the need to get yet another social networking thing going.  However, I told him I'd try it so I could check out his page.

Yesterday, I finally signed up.  Before I could even figure out how to find him, another friend I haven't seen in years added me as a friend!  How do you people do this?  How could he have found me within minutes of signing up?  Ok, that was beside the point!

I found Russell, and added him as a friend.  He sent me some weird games I couldn't understand, and will have to come help me set up my page to get the most advantage from it.  

However, during the signup process, Facebook asked me where I graduated from school.  It didn't have the obscure high school I actually graduated from, but it gave me the idea to look for the OTHER obscure school I went to during high school.  This was a boarding academy in British Columbia where I spent a year and a half.  Without doubt the best year of my life.  I've often thought about the friends I made there, and where they are now, but a few feeble attempts at searching them down turned up nothing.

Several years ago one of the guys I went to school with found me and we exchanged e-mail for a little while before drifting away again, but that was the extent of my contact.

So I looked up the name of the school, and voila! so many faces and names!  People I thought to never see or hear from again, all in one virtual place.  Many of them have blogs, so I've been able to get a glimpse into their lives.  One even wrote an article about our disastrous camping trip that year! (http://www.summitpost.org/trip-report/408266/Beginners-Luck.html) This made me laugh like a schoolgirl!

I've been laughing out loud for no apparent reason all morning because of this!  It's been amazing!  I LOVE Facebook!