I met an old Iranian friend this evening, and in passing by, he mentioned that it's hard to get in touch with me since I'm "anti-Facebook." I'm not really against Facebook (find my public account here). In fact, I see a lot of people using it to keep in touch with old friends, which is awesome, but we all know the pitfalls of social networking. You end up spending five hours a day blurting out stuff like: "I am now taking a dump," "These are my 999 favorite groups" or "I just broke up with my girlfriend, can someone send me funny YouTube videos?."

See me, talk to me, confirm me. WASTE - OF - TIME people, and you know it.

I'm quite baffled by the whole social networking deal, because I've always preferred dealing with people personally in real life than to send them lots of online messages. I believe young people spend too much time commenting each others personalities instead of getting involved with civil organizations. Start up a football club for kids, learn to play folk music with elder people, join a cooking school, support your local church, or help homeless cats find a home. Do something with your lives. In 50 years you'll be half-way dead and ready to be conserved by the welfare program for elderly.

If you need Facebook, keep it, it's not evil, but don't use it as an excuse to disconnect from society. Life is here and now. No one is going to save the world in a lifetime, so we need to look at our communities and help each other out as best as we can. That can't be done with a majority of people too busy farting around online. We need to meet new people, learn new things, challenge ourselves, harvest skills, find jobs and form families. Facebook is like HTML and genitals. They're tools, made to be used sensibly. I know you can spam the hell out of my account whenever I piss you off. But can you produce something of worth to someone other than yourself? Prove it; change your life.