Fascinated with Facebook

I think Facebook is probably the greatest invention on the Internet since Yahoo. I've never seen anything bring people together closer than this. It's truly flattening campuses. I have a few thoughts on how I've used Facebook, and how none of you who use Facebook should ever be single (you guys have it so easy as undergrads now, it's unbelievable).

1. I've used Facebook to find long-lost classmates from high school and college that I've lost touch with.

2. I've used Facebook to connect with the diaspora of Azerbaijani students at colleges around the U.S. We all can look at each other's pictures from there and experiences and chat about it. I'm now a part of their network, which is totally cool. Nothing else in the world would have helped me do this.

Facebook provides almost perfect information:

You can look at pretty much every detail of EVERYONE on your campus. All of their pictures, all of their friends. Phone #'s, addresses, who their friends are. That's amazing.

What keeps guys from asking a girl out on a date? Usually, a lack of information. You sit next to her in class, she's pretty, but you have no idea what chances you have. The risk is too great. You want to calculate that risk: does she have a boyfriend, do we have anything in common? You don't know. Thus, you're home alone on Valentine's Day.
Facebook changes all of that. The game is now EASY! Now, you can look at how she spends all of her free time, who she spends it with, what her # and email address is and in some cases estimate her family income and background.

Back when Dave Blake was in school, you actually had to go UP TO a girl and ask her for her phone #! How did people ever hook up? When I was in school, if you were clever enough to get a girl's screename you could chat with her (Joni and I never would have become friends without AIM). You could also look up her phone # in the online directory.

Now you can go through the entire UK directory on Facebook and check out every single guy & girl. Figure out which ones you have common interests with, and then start a conversation with them. No girl or guy is out of your league. Even untouchable UK athletes have Facebook profiles. You just add them and then you can send Ravi Moss a "good game!" or Matt Walsh a "You're gay!"

Fellas, think about this. You can literally look at pictures of every single college girl in the entire USA, figure out which ones you'd like to learn more about, and add them as your "friend." Granted, they may write you and say "Um... do I know you?" but, they're highly likely to add you as a friend first, so you can at least start a conversation. When was this ever possible before?

Wiley, Troy where are you at in this game?

Here's a step-by-step process to use Facebook to exploit your advantage:

1. Put up several pictures of you doing cool things with groups of people. Pictures of you playing with your little nephews and nieces, and pictures of hiking in the gorge are good. This lets the girl know you have a social life, that you might have friends to hang out with.

The rest of it just flows from that, really. Put up some funny quotes, add some random friends to make yourself look popular. That is the name of the game. (This is just my 2 cents after seeing other peoples' profiles).

Facebook is an incredible flattener that delivers incredible amounts of information about individuals.

One warning: Professors are now creating Facebook accounts to monitor their students! If a student misses class and says "I had a doctor's appointment," I've seen professors that get on Facebook, read the kid's wall and see that he was invited to a party the night before, and the kid was absent because he was actually hung over.

Information is power.