ok facebook rocks... for once

i've always thought that friendster, facebook, et al. are synonyms of aimless social circle-jerking: largely targeted at formulating a mass illusion to make people feel good about their status/popularity in their "social network" based on how many friends they've got.

but how many of them actually matter?


then again that's besides the point, i'm not going to tread down that path. i want to thank facebook, at least for today, for helping me find a very good childhood friend who'd seriously gone MIA, whom i haven't heard from in 6 years.

i have tried various methods of tracking him down, but to no avail and then this morning all the stars seemed to align together - all it took was a few key strokes and simply hitting the search button and bam! the name popped up with photo id confirmation to boot.

literally within hours we started a conversation on the wall (you're probably more than familiar with that) before we realised it was quite retarded since there's msn, and the rest was history. lots of memories, lots of catching up to do.

so maybe these aimless social circle-jerks do serve useful purposes? i wouldn't know, i'm just a social conformist who sometimes does what everyone else does, albeit a rather thoughtless and occasionally unwilling one at that.

oh and before i forget, it's april 22 again: salút! to earth day.
peace.


+listening to: for the love of money by the o' jays