Facebook

I have been avoiding it for so long. I already have three email addresses, all of which I nervously check at least three times a day. However, in an unguarded moment I recieved an invitation from my long time friend to join--so I did. I was immediately asked which of my email contacts I wanted to link to (I may or may not have accidently linked with Jimmy--even though I really didn't want to). Then it asks you your high school and college information. You are then asked which of your high school and college friends you want to link to. It was pretty amazing really--of my 950 fellow college graduates, 500 of them have facebook accounts! My friend at church said the whole friend request sounded elementary schoolish--"will you be my friend?" requests sent out to all the people I wanted to reconnect with. I suppose my college situation was different then some. I went to the Naval Academy, so in 4 years of our voluntary prison sentance, we really got to know each other. I am now in touch with 89 friends from my past lives. Some I don't really care about talking to again, but others I am thrilled to be speaking to! One of my dear friends may come and visit in a month!

I picked out only the cutist pictures of myself and have said only positive things--its sort of like a virtual reunion so I put my best foot forward. Two friends in med school, a few that graduated with doctorates from Ivy League schools, Cambridge alumni, CEOs, Lawyers. I can't exactly compete with that.