Yikes, it’s been a while since my last update, and this is partly due to that internet vortex known as Facebook, which makes it so easy to waste a lot of time browsing friends’ photos and mucking about with music quizzes and stuff (and responding to pointless notifications which I finally realized I could switch off). I added a profile a little while back but lately have actually been using it a bit.

What I like about Facebook is that profiles are not publicly visible by default, so people seem to feel comfortable providing real information about themselves, and when people are less anonymous they are also less likely to behave like wankers (a corollary of the Zeroeth Law of the Internet ). The fact that Facebook is infinitely extensible with a neverending supply of mostly pointless "apps" means it might feasibly become another MySpace, but at this point it seems vastly different, with none of that anonymous friends bollocks ("Hi stranger, thanks for the add! DUHHHHHHH!") and no way to customize a profile with yellow text on a hot pink background (did I mention that I really hate MySpace?).