SpaceBook MyFace, if you please...

Okay so you're at a social gathering, you're acting all 'grown up,' a little, I'm-in-my-twenties-with-a-real-job... and then you ask your fellow sophisticate, "Are you on Facebook too?"

Whether we like it or not, Facebook is the new fad we all love to log-on to. We might claim to be level-headed, busy-busy working bees but for most of us - well, the one's whose workplace hasn't cottoned-on to the fact that their employees are wasting time on the online equivalent to a school playground - a good few hours of each working day are spent signed-in, chatting away and even stalking old friend's (and boyfriend's) homepages.

And if your fellow sophisticate replies, "No." Or worse still, "No way. I'm not in to that stuff..." Well, then we consider it our to duty to earnestly enlighten them as to the "seriously fantastic phenomenon of Facebook." If you find yourself in such a conversation you can be sure that within a few moments, you will have new recruits all eager to inform this now-deemed simple soul about how Facebook has changed their life, and that they're all, like, totally addicted to Facebook (but don't worry, because there's a group for that!)

But there is a downside. You see for most people (with jobs), Facebook is a breath of fresh air during an otherwise foggy day of work and errands. However, for those of us in the temporarily out-of-work stage of our lives, Facebook just serves to mock us. We wake, we open our homepage, we sulk if we've not been 'poked' since last signed-on, and we desperately search for friends who are 'online now.' Our days become ruled by Facebook - and then we begin the arduous task of going through all our friends photo albums, and reading their wall posts to see if we're mentioned (okay, so maybe I've done this once or twice, but I know I'm not alone... you've done it too, don't lie!)

So we sign-out, maybe even turn the computer off - but it's no use. We are addicted. That computer goes back on quicker than the screen took to go black and we're right back where we started from, searching our page for signs of friendship.

I don't remember it being like this with MySpace. Maybe that's because with MySpace you had to do all that page-design stuff, and play around with URLs and web codes. Facebook is simple, yet effective - it's the reality TV show of the Internet, and we all love it, because we're its Stars!