Facebook

For just about every single person I know the answer to the above question is yes. Facebook was (and for many still is) a necessary tool in ones social life. Now don't get me wrong, there are certain aspects of facebook that are practical and great. It gives you the ability to maintain the resemblance of a relationship with even the most distant acquaintances. For example, on my birthday I got something like 74 wall posts wishing me a happy birthday. I legitimately speak to 3 of those people. The other 71 were elementary school class mates, people who I spent time with while I was abroad in Israel, or other distant associates, none of whom do i see, speak with, or have any sorts of contact with.

When I first heard of facebook I was a sophmore at UMass, living in the dorms, and truly a little fish in a huge freaking pond. Facebook was an invaluable tool in helping my put names to tits...I mean faces of all the hotties in my various classes. Also it allowed you to plan a party and invite all your friends without making a single phone call. At the time facebook was limited to college students, and while facebook stalking became a regular hobby of mine it was all rather harmless.
In the ensuing years facebook has slutted itself out to the corporate world. It seems like whenever I go on I am getting spammed with some type of add I have no interest in, or being invited to groups and parties that I wouldn't even dream about attending. Also when they opened up facebook to the masses it created a whole new can of worms.

One of the greatest things about facebook was it gave one the ability to post pictures. While at UMass those pics may have shown me doing any number of things I would today be ashamed of, when only my college peers could see those pictures the ramifications were typically harmless. However with bosses, and other grownups now on the 'book the ramifications of such pictures can potentially be deadly. Pictures of you smoking a little reefer may have once been funny but now they are the reason you aren't getting a job.

So folks, be careful. Be very careful about facebook. Sure it may seem like fun to post pictures of your buddy passed out on a bathroom floor, but at the end of the day putting things on the internet is sorta like (insert STD of choice here). Sure it may go away for a while, put it is never totally dead. Just when you least expect it something that happened many a years ago will come up to bite you in the ass