Facebook Addict!

Facebook! How I love thee! Let me count the ways . . .

(Following my last blog, Karen asked me to elaborate on my Facebook experience, and I am pulling myself away from FB for 2 minutes to tell you why I admire it so.)

1. It's a great way of connecting with pals from work, sports, band, etc that you don't see on a regular basis. The primary reason I joined was to find "friends" from high school before my 10 year reunion last summer. Thanks to FB, I saved myself at least $90 and the embarrassment of proclaiming to friends from high school that I'm not the First Lady of the US. (yet!)

2. Along those same lines, the voyeur side of me can see how others have fared from high school and you don't have that awkwardness of trying to remember their name in the middle of the grocery store. (Trust me, some people should not put those pics on FB!)

3. There are actually some fun games and activities to play where you can interact with friends. I play Scrabble, challenge my friends to Geo Challenge (I beat them all--awesome being a social studies teacher), and occasionally "Kidnap!" someone to a far off land. (I am trying to take the Kidnap application and have it lend itself to the classroom. It's kind of hard without the technology component.)

4. It's awesome knowing what the students are doing for "fun" with technology at home. Knowing about FB, MySpace and others allow me to have a connection that others may not have. Not that I allow students to visit my site or be my friend, I can talk to them about applications and then they try them and find out that they are cool. (Exact thing happened with Kidnap and Geo Challenge!) Plus, I feel it's a huge advantage into staying hip and cool and trying new things that interest the students.

5. Finally, FB is what connects me to my best friend who lives in Las Vegas. I can send her a message, we can instant message, post pictures each other can see, or I can write on her wall. It's cheaper than a long distance call and has the potential to be instantaneous. What's not to love?

So there are a few reasons why I love FB. Now, I need to move my car on Parking Wars so it doesn't get ticketed by a fellow band nerd from high school.