I mean, aren’t you supposed to use it network and/or meet new people? Maybe I’ll do that someday.

Got it?

At least maybe she’ll play scrabble with me.

When I first got on facebook, I swore to myself that I would not add friends just to “look popular.” I told myself that whoever I added as a friend would REALLY BE my friend in real life.

But then, as time went on, those people grew boring. I started trolling through their friends for people I knew but who weren’t really my real life friend, but who I at least talked to regularly. Then, I started adding people whose faces I recognized from school, who would at least know my name. My friends list grew very long. But at least among that number, every day *someone* is doing something interesting, or has posted a compromising picture, or has written a clever or suicidal status note. I check facebook daily for that kind of entertainment.

Then I started adding people I only know through email addresses … my yahoo groups, etc.

THEN I actually have friended a couple of absolute strangers, two of whom I was sure I would meet eventually (I did), and one of which is a woman who went to school with my brother, whose brother was a classmate of mine (who I never knew). She’s in my field and I told her I was sure we would eventually meet if we run in the same circles. We haven’t yet met, but when we do I’ll go up to her and say, “hey, I’m the gal you don’t know on facebook. I told you we’d meet eventually.” And we’ll start up a conversation, and I’ll end up going to see one of her shows, and we’ll become friends in real life. All because of facebook.

Strangely, aside from that kid I never even knew, there are no other kids from my high school that I know of on facebook.