.... random rants and rambles. no agenda. yet.

... just try being stalked by someone else with the same name as you.

At least, that's what happened to poor C today. As you may know, we're both Avoiders Of Facebook, so cannot be tracked down that way. However, C's old Chemistry classmate was minding his own business today when he came across someone on the internet with the same name as C, so he emailed the other C (!) and asked if she was his old classmate at the school they went to. She told him she wasn't, and Googled "their" name (!!) then found the real C on our business website and emailed the classmate with her CV (!!!) And THEN, the bewildered classmate emailed the real C and told her all of that.

(C is now peering at me in concern as I burst out laughing after I typed the above paragraph, but please be assured that it is true. And, she has just tracked down HIM, and he turned out to be a lawyer, totally unaware of any stalkage going on. Oh, and why bother doing Chemistry A Level in the first place if you're going to be a lawyer or an interpreter?)

So, there's definitely no need for Facebook if you want to find your old friends. People always email me the cool stuff they put on Facebook anyway, because if they don't, I shout at them. And, I've lost count of the number of times people look jealous when I tell them I'm not on it, as if I'm the only person they know who hasn't got themselves addicted to crack.

But that is one of the reasons I won't touch it. Because I KNOW it's addictive and I KNOW I will spend hours stumbling down and down and down and down through a massive neverending black hole of profiles and useless information and too many details and whatever else. That's what happened when I tried Bebo anyway. There is no room in my life for another vacuum.

Besides, as someone who I met this week told me, she calls Facebook "Life F***". I think that says everything.