Facebook and Other Time Wasters

I found Facebook or should I say Facebook found me. I started getting emails from my family why didn't I join? I did, it is a learning experience.
Social Networking is defined:

"as a social network service focused on building online communities of people who share interests and/or activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others of like mind. Most social network services are web based and provide a variety of ways for users to interact, such as e-mail and instant messaging services. The main types of social networking services are those which contain category divisions (such as former school-year or classmates), means to connect with friends (usually with self-description pages) and a recommendation system linked to trust."(WIKI)

It can be compared to spending the afternoon with your family with large groups of strangers straining to hear and potentially interact with your small family group. It can go to the other extreme of spending the weekend with your family with nothing to read, see or distraction. It becomes apparent quickly that you didn't really know most family members for a lot of very subtle reasons, untempered by ceaseless, ever evolving, gradually deteriorating level of graciousness and good manners.

Remember you can't pick your family and maybe that's a good thing.