The facebook

We are living in a new era.  It's unbelievable how a lot of people spend most of their lives staring at a computer screen.  I myself am one of those people - working five days week and spending up to seven hours a day staring at the screen.  In this progressive world everything is happening so much more quickly, so much for accurately.  Everyone is connected through technology whereas less than twenty years ago we weren't connected at all, at least not internationally.  

I mean it's crazy to think that facebook has become such a huge part of a lot of people's existence.  It's become a step in every relationship.  Everyone knows that the first step to showing interest in an individual is to add them as a "friend" on facebook.  Next step is writing on their "wall", etc.  And then, and only then, does a date come along.  Honestly, I tried to ween myself off of facebook, but I just cannot do it.  It is integral to my social life.  It excites the voyeur in me.  You can't even believe what people put out there about themselves.  People are more willing to publish their deepest thoughts on facebook as opposed to picking up the phone and talking to someone about them.  For some reason it feels safer and not as real.  I have never posted anything really crazy about myself on the site, but I have posted my nontraditional sexual orientation to facebook, and honestly that's like coming out to the whole world - all at once.  I think about some of my high school acquaintances hopping on facebook and taking a quick glance at my profile and seeing this tidbit of information about my personal life.  I just wonder what they think.  There are pros and cons of posting something like this on a site like facebook.  A pro is that it feels liberating to literally tell the world who you really are.  But, on the other hand, it's not very sensitive to come out this way, especially to some of my peripheral family members and friends who would have liked me to sit down with them to tell them.

I have been a member of facebook since it's earliest days when it was called "The facebook".  Am I slightly proud of this?  Yeah.  A little cocky actually.  Honestly, I was one of the first people in my sorority that joined the book in 2004.  I helped others get on it... yeah, I'm cocky about it.  You know who should really be cocky is Mark Zuckerburg, the founder of facebook.  Now that guy is set - completely set.  I want to make an impact like this.  It doesn't have to be quite as big, but I definitely want to make a difference, and leave my footprint on this world.  Be remembered for something.  Facebook has changed the world.