For no good reason

[ksmith]

...other than shameless lemminghood, I have taken the Facebook plunge. Kristine Smith--please friend me.

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[michaeldthomas.livejournal.com]

Umm.. I'm getting 393 Kristine Smiths.

We're Michael Damian Thomas and Lynne Marie Thomas. :)

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Is Lynne a Smith alum '96?

Some of the photos are not representative...

[michaeldthomas.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's Lynne. :)

[mcurry.livejournal.com]

I am, shockingly enough, Michael Curry over there.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=556274653

And, as the previous Michael pointed out, there are 393 Kristine Smiths, so it's a bit hard to find you....

[jimhines.livejournal.com]

Aha - found you by your e-mail address!

I am the Sherlock Holmes of Facebook geekery!

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I just posted a badge--that should take you right to what there is of my profile.

[jimhines.livejournal.com]

Oh sure, *now* you make it easy ;-)

[michaeldthomas.livejournal.com]

Rats! I thought I was clever by sending you a friend suggestion. You are too quick for me, Mr. Hines. :)

[jimhines.livejournal.com]

Do not underestimate the power of my geek fu!

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Just keeping you on your toes!

[cmpriest.livejournal.com]

Welcome aboard :)

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Yea! Timesink!

What else can you do besides friend people on this thing?

[cmpriest.livejournal.com]

Not much, frankly.

I only log into it once every week or two, or when new people add me. Sometimes cool folks from ages past will bop by or drop a message, but yanno. It's not something that I actually spend a lot of time on.

[(Anonymous)]

I keep in touch with close friends and a few former professors. I have added myself to various 'fans' lists, to keep up with shows and artists. I have been 'friended' by many high school classmates, but honestly I couldn't care less about most of them. Sorry, but it's true.

I maintain a farm with the MyFarm application, and that is entertaining, and I have a weRead list of books, too. Most of the applications are just silly and time consuming, like throwing virtual snowballs back and forth or sending someone virtual drinks. I don't participate in most of that stuff. Kidnap can be fun, though.

Jody in PA

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I checked the list of folks who were in my undergrad graduating class. I actually spotted one guy I knew from my engineering major days.

[daveamongus.livejournal.com]

You make it so easy, in fact, you friend me first...

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

You know, you aren't the only Dave Klecha.

[daveamongus.livejournal.com]

I know! I think most of the rest are actually Polish, though.

But, scarily, there is another David A. Klecha who lives in Michigan. Apparently he holds a some kind of electrical engineering type patent. I don't think he's on Facebook, though.

[lootsfoz.livejournal.com]

Careful! It can be addictive (and also awesome)

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I already like it better than My Space, but right now I am spending a leetle too much time on it.

[jemck.livejournal.com]

I shall go and seek you out. I have found it a useful way of keeping lightly in touch with folk I know via the professional circuit, so to speak, who don't LJ.

Unexpected benefits have been re-establishing contact with pals from schooldays, rather bizarrely, and also establishing regular rather han haphazard contact with far-flung (for UK values) relatives.

I do however adopt a strict no-applications/silly games policy since those do seem to be appalling time-thiefs. Various folk were keen to tell me their cautionary tales once they found me thereabouts.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Someone has already sucked me into Scrabble, but it's turning into a two turns a day sort of game, which is fine. I know there are other games out there, but I am reluctant to check them out.