The Highlights of Facebook Stalking

Well, I took two months off to reflect on my life, instead of writing about it. My conclusion was that there is nothing much to reflect on at this point because I've lived too short a life. But I do think it's that much sweeter if you can share it with other people.

Today was my last day of my official 1st [3rd(5th)] semester of medical school. I enjoyed it realizing that i've come to meet about 135 [270(350)] people in the time that I've been studying medicine, as you can tell by my vast amount of friends of facebook. LoL. I should delete about 100 of those people, but just to lazy to reflect on who i actually know and who I've simply lived beside, barely acknowledging their presence, and rarely crossing paths with them. On a normal day, there's only about 20 people I actually stalk on there (because really, what is facebook for, but to enjoy the monotony of someone else's life and contact them when they've said/done/been caught doing something of interest = facebook stalking). One thing on there I do find amusing, is people who add all kinds of people for the fun of adding people, not having ever really met that person. (That's usually my rule on adding people, to at least have met them in real life.) You see their friend list and its like 700 people, most who live in other states, cities, and countries. And everytime they express a new facebook status, they have about 6-7 strangers they've never met commenting on it. I suppose its a way to feel important to other people. And ironically sometimes its easier to pour your heart out to a stranger, but this is overdoing it just a tad. If you travel, go to university, study abroad and such, then you end up meeting all kinds of people, and yeah, Facebook is exciting for keeping in contact with your old friends, acquaintances and colleagues. Its always fun to reminisce your past, and see how people have changed. And now that they even have facebook chat, I myself have become a facebook whore...somewhat similar to what you refer to myspace addicts, although even those are becoming scarce.

Facebook just keeps getting better (or worse, depending on how you look at it). There are many out there facebook whores who sit in front of their computer and keep refreshing their facebook home page, just waiting for something to happen. Technology just keeps bringing us new ways to avoid living among other people.

This video rocks, and this is what facebook USED to look like.