I only started a FB account this year. Put it off forever, but was finally convinced when I moved to a new city and a) wanted to keep in touch with friends bac

I only started a FB account this year. Put it off forever, but was finally convinced when I moved to a new city and a) wanted to keep in touch with friends back home and b) wanted to make it easier to keep track of new people I met. I have to say it's a lot better than I had imagined. I first I was really excited to express myself amongst friends without forcing them to email me.. the next step was when my family found me, and now I express myself on there... less. Finally, I've gotten used to it and it's just another communication tool. I basically use it to track events and chat with people. So.. pretty boring, but a useful tool. My initial hesitation wasn't really a "badge of honour" or a principled stance of any kind, although when I told people I didn't have an account they usually took it that way. When I joined, lots of comments along the lines of, "I thought you were too cool for FB! lol". It was never about that for me. It was just a general... unease.. about the idea of writing down in a database who was, and was not, my friend. I don't find that, in real life, friendship is a binary yes/no relation, and therefore I find it weird to explicitly encode this more or less ephemeral thing that is friendship and social dynamics into a formal data structure. However, on joining, I quickly realized that FB "friendship" has little to do with the real thing, and is simply a way to stay connected with people. So no biggie after all.