so, this facebook.com thing. i'm doing it. sort of. i became aware of facebook's existence a couple of years ago when my brother, then still an undergraduate at UVa, talked about it. i basically got out of it that it was a friendster for college kids, which sounded fun, but SO BELOW wise old me.

well, now that i am a graduate student, and many of the people in my class happen to be fresh-outta-college kids who are facebook connoisseurs, i have been forced to create a facebook profile in order to appear hip and not-ancient and to maintain my new media internets cred. it is hard, but i am doing it. but generally, i don't understand why facebook is so popular, except that you can stalk people...which you can do with any social networking site. why do college kids prefer it over friendster? maybe because friendster sucks balls and is clunky and cluttered and difficult to use? hmm. maybe. facebook's design and features are pretty slick, i'll give it that - i especially like the photo album/upload features (though flickr is still superior to any photo features any site has going on). i guess its main appeal lies in the school affiliation. undergrad loyalty is a super-strong theme, and facebook takes advantage of that. beyond that, i don't really see a huge difference between it and friendster or myspace. but please, god, don't make me have to create a myspace profile, too.

for those who have a college email, you can access my facebook profile here.