Facebook

Okay, so I'm not really a big fan of Facebook, in fact I really just don't 'get' it at all. What real purpose does it serve? It doesn't really do anything at all, so I just DON'T get it! However, in spite of that, I figured I'd go ahead and sign up for it anyway, maybe I could figure out all the hullabaloo concerning this odd and seemingly purposeless website. I put down my name, e-mail, a password, and my age. That was all it asked for to register. Then the next page came up to an 'add friends' section and listed several people. I became truly freaked out at this point because it was listing people I actually know from online or real life! I went to one of my forums and mentioned my concern over it. Everyone said things like, "you put in your location, it will suggest people that are close to you from that." which I then shot down because 1. I hadn't put in my location and 2. some of the people I recognized live in other states, one is clear across the country! Someone mentioned that it probably got it from my e-mail, which I'm more apt to believe, but I certainly do not want some computer program thumbing through the e-mail contacts on my computer! The more I think on the list of 'suggested friends' the more I am suspecting that is exactly what that program did.

Do you really want just any old program looking through your e-mail contacts? Isn't there another name for programs that do this? Yep, it's called a VIRUS.

Yeah, I'm a little bit frazzled by it, that much is certain.