To Blog or not to Blog?

Today I was invited to Facebook by a friend and decided to sign up and enter the world of on-line exposure. So after patiently sifting through the entry forms and clicking multiple "I agree to Terms & Conditions" boxes without actually reading the Terms & Conditions, I now have a FB and also a Blog.

You can automatically search your e-mail address book to see whom of them have FaceBooks. It is a strange thing to go through your e-mail contacts (including friends, workmates, classmates and acquaintances) and see who of them a) you want to have on your FaceBook and b) would not think you a weirdo stalker by adding them ("Love me! Love me!!). Also, were some invitations obligatory?

After that, I was to create my FaceBook profile. It dawned on me that this little page was to act as a summary of me to date and perhaps this could be of certain importance. Not that I am religious, but if Judgement Day were tomorrow, whatever deity is actually raining Hell upon us might decide that reading millions of Blog and FaceBook profiles might be a good way to shortcut the red-tape at the Pearly Gates. But then I'm not religious, so that idea faded quickly.

So I added a photo, for which I chose a sexy pic of me at a triathlon, which in no way shows my impending baldness or pot-belly, and then set about trying to describe my interests and activities in a way that makes me appear appealing but trying not to embellish too much. (I have at some point read a book by Pulitzer Prize winner, but is it too much to say I am into French existential literature?)

I did notice I have a distinct attraction to 80's pop-culture. Power ballads, Sylvester Stallone, Transformers the Movie (cartoon) and Big Trouble in Little China all featured in my favourites.

Some of the contacts I selected to add as Friends agreed to my proposal and so my Facebook is now decorated with their pictures. I immediately noticed how many strikingly attractive girls I know! Why did I only notice this when seeing their pictures on the Internet?

But now what to do with my Facebook? I have some friends, some nice pictures and a few comments, but what do you do now? Am I cooler now that I have a Facebook?

Time will tell..