Facebook is an interesting animal

That about sums it the site since I've created my account on there a little over a month ago. It's nice to reconnect with old high school & college classmates and current and past co-workers. I just still have this thing about reuniting with the entire class of 2000. I used to get into discussions about it during senior year, and decided not to go the the 5 year get together, even after some coaxing from a classmate I still keep in contact with. Didn't work though.

Deep down I was not ready to resurrect some of the roughest years of my life. It seemed like so, maybe it was more teenage angst more than anything, mixed in with insecurities, passings of loved ones, and bad news. So it felt good when 6/1/00 (aka Graduation Night) arrived and I was able to say goodbye to that phase of my life. College was my liberation from that superficial and vapid vibe that is present in high school. Oooh, can't you feel the cynacism?

Anyway, Facbook is an interesting animal, because you can check out pages if the user chooses to keep it public, and look at pictures, notes, comments, post events, all sorts of things. Its a bit vouyeristic too, because you can find out info about people that aren't even on Facebook, and see who still hangs with whom, etc. etc. It can make your head spin! After I set up my account, and began searching for folks, I eventually came queasy, most likely from staring at my laptop way too long.

Don't get me wrong, it's fun to catch up and reconnect with people from back in the day but there's that risk of old (read: negative) feelings resurfacing too. And yet through all of this I'm trying to find my pic with Jerry Springer to add to the site, lol.