Facebook is Just Email

I would show you who he is, but on top of being an ass, he's also been in jail for online identity theft.

I’ve been playing with Facebook more and more.  I’m trying to see the lure of it.  I have a few actual friends (vs. internet “friends” or Facebook “friends”) who are addicted to it.  Every time I log on, their name is at the bottom of the page under “online friends.”  I click on their name and they have hundreds of Facebook “friends” (which is odd because the fella I have in mind is a complete ass). 

I gotta tell ya, I don’t get it.

Facebook, to me, looks like a very complex integration of a personal webpage and email.  All the stuff you do on Facebook – send messages, take quizzes, use simple applications – can all be done very easily on a personal webpage and/or email. 

I know I’m new to it, so there are probably some things I’m missing, but I subscribe to different groups through Yahoo and Google (and used to post the happenings on my personal website through an RSS feed), I post and watch different videos using Yahoo and Google, I post and see different pictures using various online sources, I talk to different people through email and I.M…  The only thing that seems to be worth it (to me, at least) is that all of these things are now in one spot.  I don’t have to log into Flickr to see pictures of my old roommate’s baby; I don’t have to go to my address book in Yahoo when I’m using my Hotmail account; I don’t have to update code whenever I announce something on my personal site.  It’s all in one place.

It offends me that most people on Facebook don't know what any of this means.

It saves me some time, but I gotta tell ya, it makes me a bit upset too.

See, I never took a computer class.  I figured out all that coding stuff on my own.  Suddenly there’s this place on the internet where people can go to make their own site and they don’t have to know anything about computer except how to type. 

Seems like I wasted a lot of time.

Of course, I make comics for a living; I’m used to that feeling.