The Miracle of Facebook

For all those disbelievers I present the following to prove your naivete.
Given my current situation, Facebook is basically the best thing ever. First of all, it has enabled me to keep in-touch effortlessly with my friends from home. Between long, never-ending message threads, wall posts and pictures, I feel like I'm living on countless college campuses. I can find email addresses, statuses, thoughts, feelings, and social outings by cleverly stalking my friends on facebook. But that's the obvious stuff.
Being in Paris, I meet tons of people constantly, and frankly most of the people I meet should be much like Tyler Durdan in Fight Club: "single-serve friends." I should probably meet them once, have a good time, and move on, knowing that in all likelihood I will never see or to talk to these people again.
However, facebook changes all of this. I know have contacts all over Europe and the world that I never would have had without facebook. The two "random" girls who I met the other morning are no longer random. Instead they're facebook friends of mine and we post on each other's walls and even maybe IM a little. In fact, they've expressed a slight annoyance at the fact that I left some of the details out about our excursion, but they should be happy because not everyone gets to be mentioned twice in "Charlemagne's Return."
On any note, if you don't have facebook, you should get it. You'll find yourself sometimes wasting time by looking at pictures and what not, but you'll also find yourself appreciating how connected it makes you.