Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Facebook Frenzy

I have been enjoying Facebook too much for too long. There are fewer things I find more entertaining than commenting on various people's status and seeing them comment on mind and then commenting on their comments. I love being sharp and clever at dinner parties, and this is just like that, but it's on the internet, so it lasts forever.

As I get older, I think about the fact that the internet, with it's mirror sites and duplications and massive servers, may be the place on which I live longest. We used to think about sound waves going off into space and somehow curving back to be heard years later. (No one explained exactly how this was supposed to work.) But with the internet, those bits and bytes will live on and on and on.

I have a very good example of that. I had this experience with a guy named Darren Stephens. The other Darren Stephens. I'll tell you about that soon.