To Facebook or not to facebook

About a month ago, I mentioned Facebook and MySpace in a message, not really snotty but maybe I was a little schnarky. I was saying how often we try to find approval, self esteem, even our place in this world through these shrines to self. Kind of like writing a blog, as if someone would really care what we have to say...hey wait a minute :). I took the plunge just for the heck of it and have actually found Facebook to be pretty cool, mostly in becoming reacquainted with folks from college, high school and even middle school. What is really weird is how old my contemporaries look. You see I remember them from who they were twenty or thirty years ago, it's hard to imagine them balding, heavier, grey and wrinkly. After all I look exactly the same as when I was 20 except for the balding, extra weight, greying and wrinklingthat seems to be taking place.

So, for me, Facebook is not a shrine to me, but rather a connection, a connection to people who were important to me at one time. I now realize that they are still important to me. But because of human limitations, I have moved on without keeping in contact with these people. The wonders of creative technology have opened a door bringing the past to the present and for this I am grateful.

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