"In your face-book!"

I received a "special offer" from CLASSMATES.COM to renew my membership that I had let run out a few years ago. They offered one year at $9.95. I thought it was worth it because I have a High School reunion coming up. I missed out on all the other reunions and wanted to make sure this time I at least heard about it. As I started the process of signing up once again my wife informed me that spending $9.95 to keep in touch was old fashioned. Since it was my wife's idea to start my blog almost a year ago I deferred to her computer savvy. She told me FACE BOOK is free and where everyone goes to keep in touch.

For free? How could I go wrong......"Let me count the ways." I signed up and completed my profile. If you complete all the details it is time consuming, however, by the time I finished my profile page, I was contacted by three people who wanted to "Friend" me. I had little to no idea who these persons were and even read their profiles hoping for a clue. Two more "Friendings." One was a person I've been avoiding all my career, so why would I want to "Friend" him? Not understanding this concept but I'm sure it will clear up as I work out the kinks. I did a search for my High School to no avail. Apparently, in Levittown, New York, Memorial High School, no longer exists. I found Division, Island Trees and MacArthur but no Memorial. We were the oldest of the four Levittown High Schools and it would make sense that the building was either torn down or made into something else but someone else from my high school has to be listed somewhere on this FACE BOOK? No? I've now been friended by five more strangers and two more people that if I wanted to stay in touch with, I would....via telephone. My account is less than two hours old. I now tried to cross reference people that went to my High School and a community college in the neighborhood which was listed. Couldn't find a soul. My wife couldn't make heads or tails of it either. She repeatedly asked "you sure you have the school name right? I only went to the school for four years, I'm pretty sure that Levittown Memorial High School was the place I was president of the drama club, DJ on the radio station, and lettered in three sports at! I started to put names into the "Friend me" list. After all, why not, I was now asked to be friends with seventeen people I couldn't remember, perhaps I can find one classmate who could tell me if we're planning a reunion anytime soon.

I then tried to link my FACE BOOK account to my BLOG. I clicked on the button that said, "click here to link." I did and nothing. I did it again and nothing. I did it a third time and gave up. I then went to my blog site to post my Face Book account and found three places for a logo to be transferred. Completely screwed the cover page of my blog account. It appears "Baby Boomers" of the 50s aren't as likely to be on FACE BOOK as they are to be on CLASSMATES. I remember having no problems finding almost my entire LMHS graduating class a couple of years ago when the site first came out. However, since high school, I've lost touch with all but one of my classmates and he was my best friend when I lived in New York. I didn't need FACE BOOK or CLASSMATES to keep in touch with him. I still talk to Johnny four times a year and I don't even have to "Friend" him. You see, we were already friends.

I cancelled my FACE BOOK account a little more than three hours after I signed up. People of this generation have way too much time on their hands to maintain such a detailed account. And who has time for that many friends? Now that I think of it, if someone from Levittown Memorial High School in New York wants me to attend a class of '70 Reunion, GOOGLE me!!!

......and cut!!!