How strange that you, of all of us, would prove to be the most hopeful.

Notes from a new user of Facebook:

* Even though I know how it works, I find it creepy when they know who I know. I registered, and it reported a handful of my friends to me immediately. I was warned, shrilly and at length, about the Patriot Act, but no one mentioned the capabilities of Facebook.

* I find it disproportionately hilarious when my Facebook friends join groups and it is reported thusly:

I have known the WGP for more than fifteen years. He did not recently become a fan of Scotch. He and Scotch have had their ups and downs, of course, but he “became a fan of Scotch” I think before he became a fan of Shaving. (Ditto j.pal and Beer, Notorious and Democrats, Luna and Shoes, Dwink and Bourbon, etc…

* I have noticed, via some of my friends’ friends, that one can be FB friends with people whose profiles are probably not entirely honest about their likes and dislikes and status and so forth. Let us take the example of Barack Obama. I’ve seen his profile. It’s very polished. What makes me smile is contemplating the double-secret “Arak Borama” page where everyone wrote LOL on his wall when “Arak Borama became a fan of Hillary Clinton” and the statuses are things like “Arak Borama is hoping no one noticed he took a huge dump at Buckingham Palace”.

* Speaking of statuses, Al Surname thinks that his Facebook status updates might be cutting into his blogging, and that he needs to pay more attention to the mothership.

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