After taking a brief hiatus from blogging, necessitated by a virtual wasteland of thought resulting from too much homework, I am back. Concerning my last post, it’s gratifying to see that one simple quote can create so much discussion. Natalie, keep up the good work.
This last week I discovered facebook.com, which is a fairly addicting website and the partial cause for my lack of blog-age. For those of you not familiar with this site, facebook.com is “an online directory that connects people through social networks at schools,” according to their website. I was up until 3 am the other night, connecting myself to people through social networks at schools. It’s that enthralling. I am not alone in my facebook frenzy. Apparently it has become all the rage on college campuses across America. So what is it about facebook.com that people find so incredible?

Ponder this. Remember when the high school yearbooks would come out and you would do everything you could to get the most signatures in your yearbook so you looked really cool, like you knew a lot of people? Forget the fact that 90% of the girls who wrote “call me this summer” didn’t really mean it and were horrified when you called, or pretended(?) like they didn’t know who you were. It was the quantity of names in the book that mattered. I think that facebook.com is the college iteration of the high school yearbook. Case in point: I look at my profile and I see a heartening 19 friends at BYU. 19 is a lot right? I feel pretty good about myself until I look at a fellow student’s profile. She’s sporting a cool 63 friends at BYU, along with a host of other friends from a gaggle of other schools. Ouch. This realization leads to a panicked facebook.com session as I try to rack my brain for more friends that I could possibly add to my facebook.com friend list. The drive to have as many people on the rolls as possible isn’t unique to me. Indeed, far from it. In fact, I know a kid (who goes by “Rico Suave” on facebook.com) who wrote a program that has allowed him to add an unprecedented 1403 people to his “friends” list. Now that’s extreme. How can a newb like me ever hope to compete with that kind of friend firepower? The fact of the matter is this: I can’t. But that’s not going to stop me from trying. So support my campaign by listing me as a friend if you haven’t done so already. Rico Suave, here I come.

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UPDATE: The Deseret News did a scare article on Facebook.com. Check it out here! Thanks to Kat.