Facebook

It seemed to be the 'in' thing to join Facebook lately. I've received quite a lot of email requests and even sms-es. No choice, I really got to join to see what is so good about this portal.

I find it rather confusing initially. All the gifts, the eggs, the poke and superpoke applications. Messages flooding my email with notifications and more invitations to join the many applications. Most of the applications reminded me of Tamaguchi and MLM. Send an egg and see what it hatches. More people you invite, more varieties of superpoke you have.

I wonder what is the fun factor about being bitten by zombies, vampires and werewolves. And then after accepting the bite, I got to spread the "bites" to my friends.

Of course, I get to find and connect my friends, ex-colleagues, classmates in the portal. But for most of them, we're already keeping in touch via emails, yahoo! Groups etc.

But the most interesting thing happened when this morning I received a friend's request. I couldn't recognize her picture in the profile. And the someone I know who's called "Claudine" doesn't look like the one in the picture. I did a little search and looked into her photo albums.

Finally.... it sinked in. I was her secondary 1 & 2 classmates!!! Of course, I only know her Chinses name. She probably added her Christian name after we parted. She must've found me in Facebook while doing some random search I supposed. I was so surprised. We completely lost touch for more than ten years and now we "found" each other in the non-physical world.

Now, I'm doing some random search to find my old classmates and ex-colleagues too.

So this portal is not too bad afterall... minus those applications.