facebook - the eternal love hate

I have two major confessions to make.
1) I absolutely hate and detest facebook.
2) I am a facebook addict.

Why the love hate? I must admit, I love peering into other people's lives, and I like displaying the things that are good about mine to those I am close to and even sometimes, gloating to the assholes I went to school with about how much fun I have today. It's kinda fun to see who is on there the most, what they post, what is important to them to show others. The real question for me though is "are people really who their fb profiles say they are? I dare say they probably are not. It makes me sad to think of the people who base their own concepts of how great their lives are on what other people post. Just a thought. Mostly, I like it because it's the fastest way to communicate information. I love that I know how some of my dear friends who live far away are doing almost every week just based on what's been posted.

Why the hate? Oh, the usual government conspiracy domination through facebook blah blah blah. I wonder if they own that photo of the time my roommate and husband and friend all got really drunk playing risk..... that'd make a great magazine ad for "why you shouldn't drink children!" I can just see it now:
This is your brain normally.... this is what you'd look like drunk.... any questions?

That is all. Continue as if you were normal.
-the awe-struck-ninja