The Occasional Solipsist

Along with the rest of the internet, I have recently been spending waaay too much time on facebook. If you use it, you know that its a lot more addictive than some of the recent web trends.

In case you don't know, facebook is a social site, similar to MySpace, but with a cleaner interface and better features. And the people I talk to on facebook I'm at least kind of friends with.

I was explaining my use of the site to a friend earlier tonight, and as I was telling him how great it was that I was re-connecting with people I had forgotten I even knew, it occurred to me that the appeal will likely get old when I realize why I fell out of touch with most of them in the 1st place. But that hasn't happened yet, and so I spend a lot of my free time on the site, going through people's pictures, reading their inane notes, writing my own, you know the deal.

But I really can justify anything: if I'm going to be a sheep, at least I'm choosing to be a part of a cleaner, hipper flock.

Here's a couple of links for some facebook add-ons that I'm finding alternatively useful and interesting right now:

• flickurbook - bring flickr photosets into facebook
• friend mapper - get a google map of the locations of your facebook pals
• google personal homepage gadget - adds facebook status info, you guessed it, your Google Personalized Home Page
  

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