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About a year ago, I got talked into creating a MySpace account.

I created it, put up a few pictures, added about four people as friends and left it at that.

I tried to personalize it the way the cool users of MySpace do, but I just didn't have the HTML skills to do so. Besides, I had a life. After a socially fruitless while, I decided to take the pictures down and change my favorite quote to just "yeah".

I was done with MySpace; it had done nothing for me. I didn't have any more friends than without it, and my social life hadn't been enriched in any way since creating the account. The people I cared enough to socialize with were just a phone call away.

Through MySpace I'd found one friend from high school I'd lost touch with. The few times I tried to find other people I actually wanted to know again on MySpace, they weren't registered users.

So after a few months, I packed my bags and left MySpace... well... empty.

I'd heard of Facebook. I got a few invitations from people I barely talk to, asking me to join Facebook for quite some time, but resisted the temptation if you want to call it that. I did pretty good in keeping my opinion solid about cyber socializing despite the multiple requests to change my mind- that it's a waste of time, and an activity that should be reserved for keg party group announcements and teenagers to communicate with each other in their texting lingo.

My thought was that I'd tried MySpace and knew all I needed to know about socializing in cyberspace. I wasn't interested in doing it through any other web site. If the people inviting me to sign up for Facebook really valued my presence in their lives, they'll just have to call me was my philosophy.

I had no idea that such web sites are like countries... each with its own culture and quirks, with some cooler than others.

Less than a week ago, I got an invitation from an old friend to join Facebook. I grew up with this friend, and though we hadn't really been in touch regularly since we hit puberty and I moved overseas, I decided to humor her and join Facebook for her sake. Also for the sake of the old days when we played Barbies and the time we shared a birthday party, dressed as twin princesses drenched in pink.

I had no idea what I was getting myself into.

In real life, I on average socialize with maybe eight people total in person. That includes BFF's, mere acquaintances, and even work friends. I'm obviously no social butterfly.

Since joining Facebook less than a week ago, I've gone from someone

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