Facebook again

Because of a new project, I shall endeavor to spend more time haunting Facebook. Feel free to friend me there (if I know who you are).

I visited FB for the first time in a long while the other day, and was surprised at how many people I know have taken to hitting it regularly, generating new status updates crawling up my wall. I think the disconnect I feel comes from relatively few people in my local social circles relying on Facebook as a social focal point, at least compared to Livejournal.

A lot of the folks on my LJ flist now are people who got accounts expressly so they could keep up with friends' conversations as they become increasingly filled with verbal pointers to LJ posts. Through conversation with a remote friend (who recently deleted their LJ), I see that FB holds that same role in other small social communities. I imagine it's quite possible that more people use Facebook for things like event-organizing and other social announcements than LJ, now.

Aww, is the baby gonna cry?

Predicted GOP response:

lol "ooh help help their bein mean to me"
r u gonna say that to the terists too? Is that ur forin policy plan? ya ur rite we'll get rite on that. lol <_<;

Didn't we already go over this?

Awesome, another hit-piece on Palin that's based entirely on unnamed sources is going around. This would be the one whose pull-quote source is a waitress that remains anonymous for fear of political reprisals. Uh-huh.

If you're tempted to spread this, drop that shit right now and back off. There are so many better routes to the same end, and you're helping to make our side look foolish.