[Xantar]

Your college probably isn't supported by Facebook, Jason1. Sorry.

But at least you didn't get into the scene around five years ago. Back then, it was only Ivy League universities and a few elites.

Anyway, it's not that I disliked Facebook in itself. I just find the whole culture of "add me so I can say you're my friend" distasteful. Even though I was using an assumed name, people were requesting to be my friend even though I actually only really spoke to them once a month or so. Right then, all of a sudden, I'm supposed to decide whether this person is my "friend?" Because I don't actually hate anybody, I can't really reject anyone, but I don't like having to define all my relationships with people so starkly. Facebook would probably be a much better website if it had an option for "people I don't really know that well but don't dislike and sure I would have a drink with them or see a movie if I had nothing better to do."

Besides, far too many people I know, both personally and online, got way too much into it and started tracking other people and seeing who they were having relationships and when they were breaking up and getting worked up about the drama of someone else's personal profile. It sounds silly, but it's true, and I just decided I wouldn't have any of it. If someone is my friend, we see each other or talk on the phone or talk by instant messenger. We all know who we are. To us, Facebook is just a glorified address book, and that's all I use it for.