I've enjoyed Facebook for the most part. I find it a slightly classier alternative to MySpace, about which I could bitch endlessly. On Facebook, the interface is cleaner, and if you're not me, it's a lot easier to use.
The downside is that people feel safer to add others. The real downside to this is that I've got a lot of friends added from college. College was a long time ago. A really long time ago. As in, I got my bachelors' degrees (Yes, I have two, so that's the correct punctuation) in 1995.
Wait - it's not bad that I have friends from college. What's bad is that friends of my friends scan through those friends' friend lists and find me. When they add me as a friend, I look at the friends we have in common to see if I know them. Apparently I do.
OK, OK, you're right. The downside is that I have such a bad memory that when these new friends of friends whom I ostensibally know contact me, I can't think of a nice way to say, "Do I know you?"
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I know exactly what you mean. Some guy sent me an email via facebook and knew where I used to go to church, where I went to high school, when I graduated and where I went to college and yet when I saw his name and his pictures I had absolutely NO idea who he was. I told him that and even after he tried to explain how he knew me, I still didn't have a clue... ha!
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