Help! I'm on Facebook and I can't get off!

Facebook is a social networking website launched on February 4, 2004.[1] The free-access website is privately owned and operated by Facebook, Inc. Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profile to notify friends about themselves.

2004 - that explains why I am now connected.

The excitement of this blog has taken a backseat to Facebook. Facebook has been a fun way of reconnecting with friends from all chapters of life. Some names & faces are blasts from the past. It is amzaing how old pictures resurface! It is amazing where everyone is in their lives - my roommate, Amy from SIU - married, no kids, Senior Marketing Director of Universal Studios in California. Susie Barbacovi - married, no kids, Director, Global Trade Compliance & Policy of Abbott Labs. One month ago, Susie stayed at the Trident and ate at the Oberoi and Taj, which are currently under terrorist seige in Mumba! There are 9 degrees of separation between me, Julie & Geoff's friend, Greta and one of Drew's fraternity brothers, Brian. It is interesting to see who is married to who, who is divorced, who has kids, etc. It is really fun to see children's resemblances to their parents. I decided this morning that it is comforting especially this time of year to connect with people who knew my dad when... elementary & junior high friends who were involved in slumber parties, Halloween parties...
What's really cool, this is a place where most of us are relatively the same age - approaching 40.
If you're not on Facebook, you should give it a try - your friends are there.

Happy 1st Birthday Cora!

Facebook Phenomenon

Facebook is a "social networking website" launched on February 4, 2004.


Thanks to a great friends, I have discovered a great way to connect with friends from high school and college. We are finding pictures like the one below that have been on the internet for years & we didn't know it. I took this picture for the house & as a class assignment. Carbondale is now pretty much a dry town. Drew's fraternity has been gone from SIU for many years as well as some of the places we frequented - torn down!

With the teacher I work with getting married in June, I have recently gone through our wedding album. Looking people up who were in and at our wedding that we haven't seen in 15 years is fun. It is great catching up with everyone, seeing where everyone is geographically, who is doing what, who is with who, who has kids, etc. It is amazing what we remember about each other. I can't decide yet if Facebook makes me feel older or younger. The great thing is that we're all getting older. It is also a great reminder of who we were then and who we are now.

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