My face has beed booked...finally.

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About six months ago, my wife decided to create a Facebook page.  I figured she was planning on using it to find my replacement but she gave me marginal assurance that this was not the case.  Over the next several months I noticed that whenever she had a spare moment, she logged in to her account and began frantically clicking away.  In addition, all of her conversations with me had started to revolve around past grade school, high school, and college chums whom she had been chatting with on (what else) Facebook.

Motivated by curiosity (and a growing concern with my wife's online activities), I created my own Facebook page. 

Oh. My. God.  This thing is insane!

First of all, am I the last person on the planet to join Facebook?  I had no idea.  I have to admit, I had noticed that many of my friends seemed to have abandoned their MySpace accounts.  I had too, so I guess it never occurred to me that perhaps they had all moved somewhere else.

For me, it's difficult to pinpoint the major differences between the two front-running social networking sites.  The biggest difference, to me, is how easy it is to join in or eavesdrop on any number of Twitter-esce conversations. It's kind of like stalking, without the binoculars and restraining orders.

I've only been a member of Facebook for about two weeks now and I have to say, I'm already hooked.  New "Friends" keep piling in everyday and I'm not even that friendly of a person (ask anybody).

Lately, I too have been devoting spare minutes of the day to check up on my Facebook page.  Speaking of which, I wonder if anybody has responded to my witty retort regarding that adorable new baby pic?  Dang it!  I must know.  Thanks Facebook!     

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