Facebook

I kept meaning to get around to joining Facebook. I originally wanted to join back when you had to have a college/university email address, but I wasn't in college or working for one at the time, so I couldn't. Then they changed that rule, but I wasn't so into the idea any more. After all, I have other ways of keeping up with many of my college friends. I'd been toying with the idea again lately (okay, I'll be honest: I'd think about it periodically for the past year or so), so this was the perfect opportunity to go ahead and actually do it. Side note: Isn't it funny how you're most likely to think of something when you can't do anything about it? Seems I'd only remember that I wanted to join Facebook when I was either away from my computer or involved in something else and couldn't do it at the time.

Thoughts on Facebook:
-I'm slightly annoyed that you can't pick more than one option for the "I am" and "School Status" parts of registration - what happens if you fall into more than one category?
-I'd really like some assurance that, since I have to provide my full name, they won't be posting it anywhere. I like to keep the various aspects of my life as separate as possible.
-The registration process could have been a little quicker.

But enough ranting. Here's what I liked as I registered and beyond:
-the ability to import and find friends from my address book and AIM. Timesavers! Even though most of the ones found were folks with whom I work instead of the college and grad school friends I'd pictured it finding. ;)
-Registration is broken into steps, which is quite nice.
-Lots of ability to personalize and edit the information shown.
-Finally getting around to registering and playing around on the site!! :)