Woman to Women

Why Facebook Is the Devil

Talk about a site for virtual strangers, busybodies and stalkers!

-Jane Wonder

We all have Facebook pages these days, right? Of course we do. Because we're hip and savvy and whatever other cool word means "in touch with the online universe" these days. It's kind of fun sometimes. You know, I get to poke my friends, write annoying stuff on their walls, send them weird gifts and answer stupid quizzes. So what's wrong with that, right?

Well, as I use it, more and more friends from high school and college are finding me and adding me as friends. So here are these people who didn't bother to keep in touch but who are now fake-interested in my life and where it's been. OK, so that doesn't really annoy me all that much, either. I mean, sure they didn't keep in touch all along, but then neither did I. And reconnecting is kind of cool in a dorky let's-say-we'll-keep-in-touch-now-but-really-not sort of way. So, again, what's my problem, right?

Here's my problem. Every interaction invariably goes roughly like this: read more about the downside of Facebook...