When I was in college, a girl I liked sent me a link, and before you know it, I was on "thefacebook.com". I graduated in spring of '05, so this was pretty early on in facebook history; which was started in 2004. Anyway as time went by I found facebook more annoying than it was worth, and eventually got rid of it. Here's my post explaining why.
Eventually facebook became more ubiquitous, and I started to consider re-opening an account. Instead of my earlier impressions of voyeurism and narcissism, a tool for communication has emerged, and feels much more useful to the "discussion."
One night recently I was itching to see a movie, and by chance decided to see the "the social network." It was that or the stupid owl movie. Anyway I'm a sucker for a few key things in movies, and this movie has a big one. Real computer stuff. Several times in the movie you get to see Mark Z's screen, and it's not the kind of crap you might find ripped up and crapped out of a movie director's butt. It's just like my screen at work every day. Apache2 webservers, wget, Perl, Linux, MySql. To most people it's probably mundane, or a jumble. But for me: seeing your day-job onscreen is really cool.
So that pushed me over the edge, and now I'm back. I wonder for how long.
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