Connecting Dots at Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook, is young and enterprising who made it to the Richest Persons List. He turns big time just by getting people together via his social network website where friends, families, classmates, strangers, friends of friends converge. He started it with his friends at school. From there, the rest is history whipped with controversy. And,



When I decided to explore further beyond my original number 15 set of friends, I was not prepared to be overwhelmed by the multitude of people I met and knew in the past: family, classmates, teachers, employers, friends, friends of friends, relatives whom I never got the chance to meet and know in life including those whom I have abandoned under circumstantial reason, family of my parents, contemporaries, townmates, landlords, workmates, churchmates and the list goes on.

Adventure, time and distance or life itself have separated us through the years (from one year to fifty years,) where we all lost track from one another as the mode of communications then were not much to our convenience and liking. Letter writing was the only option, and, that itself is now replaced by email.

Still nothing can beat the joy and pleasure when there is something to pull out from the humble mailbox which is now more overloaded with junk such as commercial catalogues than warm letters. Better still there's nothing pleasurable than receiving a personal letter full of news, good or bad, residing inside the envelope with stamps on it straight from the hands of a friendly Postman who dutifully comes knocking on your door, if not yelling out your name on the street attracting nosy neigbhours who come running without invitation and fuss about your mail harvest.

In those days, sometimes letters can be a nest of unexpected blessings. And nobody was corrupt. Nowadays, nothing is safe in the mail anymore especially in some parts of the world. Mail pilferage are becoming rampant. Even personal secrets are possible wiki-juice if landed in the wrong hands.

I must admit, I have had been skeptical about social networking since Myspace but eventually relented after some persuasion from my family. I let go of my negativity and went ahead to conduct my own heuristic exploration and the outcome is just incredible!

Instead of looking forward into the future, I am looking backward to the past to relive happy memories occurring since childhood; especially because the people I get reconnected with are the people of whom I have had association in my life that contributed to the person I become today. The air is electrifying when you learned that they too still hold memories of me and speak with candid remembrance.

It's exciting to be taken back to the hub of early life's thrills and excitements of growing up when things started to register on your mind about your existence. And sad to be taken back to the wheel of life and reminisce those recollections you would rather leave untouched let alone mention. You don't want the storm when you can have the rain, sunshine and rainbow.

Then there are those new people you hardly knew at all, yet, you share common ideals and principles, sharing hopes, aspirations and interests and those also with like-mind whom you met in other cyber places like the blog world, photography and poetry as examples. People that you get acquainted with during your travels as well as new neighbours and family friends. Facebook created this phenomenon of connecting the dots of friendship throughout the world. As nothing is permanent but change, you lost them for awhile and found them again because of Facebook.

So facebook here, I come! What offers thee for me to pray?

"Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation." ~Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel