Robert Bentley .NET

I went to Reading over the weekend for a friends birthday, had much drinkies and a good time. While I was there I got convinced by numerous other friends to join facebook. I’ve never been a fan of ‘network sites’, I mean.. it took me a good few years to start a blog.. nevertheless I decided I would give Facebook a try.

The experience so far has been a real eye opener. There is a whole world out there that I never knew existed. These people are updating their profiles on an hour by hour basis. Part of me wonders how they had any time to become friends to an ‘out of touch’ non-facebooker such as myself. Pretty much every meeting, party or event is pre-organised using the groups and events features. The photos from said events are then distributed to all attendees, tagged with everybody’s name and commented on. With this and the vast amount of mini-games, video sharing and other such ‘Applications’ it seems there is more of a life to be had online than offline during a typical week.

The ‘social network’ concept in itself was enough for me. I’ve been given the ability to get back in touch with school friends I expected never to hear from again – some of these I distinctly recall finding the entire “computer thing” highly sad during our school years – I was the techie geek - yet I can now track their lives online by the minute.

As a web-host my brain is doing double time trying to comprehend the amount of disk-space and bandwidth such a community consumes. Naturally my instinct reaction was to query the Facebook IP prefix using the SynergyWorks looking glass – the response to which revealed Facebook run their own Antonymous System (AS32934). Any single website requiring their own global network, is pretty impressive in my eyes.

As to if my enthusiasm for this will last, is yet to be seen…

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