And then came facebook...

The day I got that first e-mail with an invitation to join the world-wide social interconnectedness known as Facebook, my life changed.

I find myself reverse-stalking lots of people... my mother Lulu in Miami, my brother Erik and his wife Christy, my sister Lydia and husband Eddie, my baby sister Lorena, my cousins Moy, Ana M, Paty, Leslie, Fab, and Chachi. Folks from Hidalgo High School. The troublemakers from the UT-PA Computer Science labs. The crazies from Rackspace and Northside ISD.

Then there's the friends of friends, the fan groups and alumni groups, the fan pages, etc...

Then there's Mafia Wars... First was just New York, then Cuba at level 35, now there's Moscow and Bangkok coming soon. Oh, and FarmVille... all the damn mouse-clicking required to plow, seed and harvest crops some fruit or to milk some animal.

Why, oh why, do I let myself get sucked into this?