a few months ago my friend set up a facebook account for me, a.k.a. i didn't ask for it or want it really, so i was initially quite annoyed at having succumbed and conformed like everyone else. I know that feeling of shame/irony that you speak of (i mean come on, this is me we're talking about, i am by no means a social butterfly) but after a while, i have found it quite useful/rewarding and it really isn't that addicting. I don't go on very often, but i HAVE managed to (amazingly) reunite with basically my entire elementary school class whom i have not spoken to for 5 years. which has been really really nice, considering i basically lost ALL contact with everyone after gr 6 (not even email!) and figured i would never get a chance to talk to them ever again. (in fact, through facebook, i am now helping to plan a reunion for my elementary school class, which i never would have even known about otherwise.) I don't see any point in adding friends from York on facebook since you see them everyday anyway, so i only use it to talk to friends/relatives in university, friends whose emails i don't know, and ones who live all over the world. (it's actually quite amazing how i've managed to reconnect with so many childhood friends who i have long since stopped keeping in touch with.) so i justify my non-addicted facebook use by saying that i use it (somewhat) "meaningfully" haha, and am not one of those annoying people who have facebook just to add 1,764 friends and look popular or be nosy and waste hours clicking around to find the latest gossip. -adrienne
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