Facebook Fan!
I love Facebook! For those who don't use it, it's an online social networking site. I didn't expect to like it but I'll try anything once and I've grown to love it. I'm always busy and although I'll always make time for my family and my close friends, there are loads of people I like to keep in touch with but just don't have time for - and vice versa. So it's great to log on and get a list of friends and a line about what they've been up to. You should try it!
And, they do surveys to find out what your friends think of you - very interesting. (Saves you having to fake your own death and turn up at your wake in disguise.) So they do the survey and then they rank you amongst your friends who are on Facebook.
Apparently I come 2nd in the "toughest/ most likely to win a fight" category! Do I LOOK tough? Look at the photo at the top of this page? Does the sweet smiling Indygal look like she'd do anything other than run a mile from a fight?
I was also 2nd "most useful", 2nd "hardest working" (insightful friends indeed) but 2nd "most likely to skip class" - I make no comment on that one except to plead my innocence.
Finally, amongst my friends on Facebook, I was 2nd in the "best mother (potential)" category. I was quite pleased with that seeing as various people have suggested I'm best opting out of motherhood in case I forget I've got them and leave them somewhere. As if! I have to say my basking in the glow of coming 2nd faded a little when I saw that amongst ALL facebook folk, my ranking drops to 365,612th!
But that in itself is an indication of the size of Facebook. As long as it doesn't replace normal face to face interaction, I think the criticism of it and other sites of this type, is unfair and it provides a very useful service in a very busy world.
When I go to Sri Lanka I know I'll be very homesick for the first week or two so it'll be nice to log onto Facebook and see what everyone's been up to. Of course it'll also be nice to update my own page with "sitting in a bar on the edge of the Indian ocean" and I'm sure it'll cheer my friends up to read that too :-)
And, they do surveys to find out what your friends think of you - very interesting. (Saves you having to fake your own death and turn up at your wake in disguise.) So they do the survey and then they rank you amongst your friends who are on Facebook.
Apparently I come 2nd in the "toughest/ most likely to win a fight" category! Do I LOOK tough? Look at the photo at the top of this page? Does the sweet smiling Indygal look like she'd do anything other than run a mile from a fight?
I was also 2nd "most useful", 2nd "hardest working" (insightful friends indeed) but 2nd "most likely to skip class" - I make no comment on that one except to plead my innocence.
Finally, amongst my friends on Facebook, I was 2nd in the "best mother (potential)" category. I was quite pleased with that seeing as various people have suggested I'm best opting out of motherhood in case I forget I've got them and leave them somewhere. As if! I have to say my basking in the glow of coming 2nd faded a little when I saw that amongst ALL facebook folk, my ranking drops to 365,612th!
But that in itself is an indication of the size of Facebook. As long as it doesn't replace normal face to face interaction, I think the criticism of it and other sites of this type, is unfair and it provides a very useful service in a very busy world.
When I go to Sri Lanka I know I'll be very homesick for the first week or two so it'll be nice to log onto Facebook and see what everyone's been up to. Of course it'll also be nice to update my own page with "sitting in a bar on the edge of the Indian ocean" and I'm sure it'll cheer my friends up to read that too :-)
