I tend to walk where ever I go in our little town and usually during those walks I trying and map out in my head what I can write about and sort of point form it mentally. Some days I’m successful and a post will just flow and other days I just come up blank. This was the case today as I headed out to the drugstore and thought about this whole Facebook thing that has apparently taken over the internet and being proclaimed as the next new best thing since sliced bread.

After all according to Hugh Macleod it’s either sign up for Facebook or find yourself in a dustbin in some corner but then I was faced with the fear of contributing to the echo chamber on at least 3 counts. However I trudged onward regardless of finding out that Facebook was in ongoing legal disputes over who owns what and that it wouldn’t do that some-one who writes about the internet wasn’t feeling the Facebook love like Robert Scoble is. Not to mention I would be missing out on even more widgets to fill up my life with and I just couldn’t have that - gawd forbid.

So what else could a cranky old fart do but head over to Facebook and get himself a piece of the action and here I sit looking at the sign-in page and wondering what the “I am” setting should be. Guess I am going to be a “none of the above” and now that I’ve confirmed who I am I have my brand new Facebook page before me where I can set about all my page admin stuff I guess.

Why am I not surprised that in the first screen of the edit profile it asks sex related questions first - so I’ll set that to married and let folks guess the rest. As for my political and religious views .. ain’t happening. As far as I am concerned a social network that isn’t religious or politically oriented has no need to ask that question.

Now half an hour later after figuring out which information I feel like passing along at this initial point I head back to my profile page - now what. Oh ya .. it’s a social network which means for this to be of any really use I guess I need to have friends which luckily I had one waiting for me as I joined. So I click on the add as friend link only to be presented with the page to select how I know this person … I can see this area needs some work because for sure I haven’t hooked up with GrumpyPapa and nor have I done any of the other options with him. You can still see Facebook’s college roots at this point.

So .. like I said .. what now .. I have a bland page that I have to open my browser to use and I have a bunch of widgets I can add. Big woop-di-do but .. hey .. I must be cool now because I have a Facebook page - right?

Conversation Tags: Facebook, being cool