1. My in-laws are on Facebook – it’s an easy way to catch up on what’s going on in their lives.
2. I connected with over a dozen people I’d gone to pre-school and elementary school with. We’d all grown up together and in many cases followed each other through until high school I missed my 10 year high school reunion, so this was my first opporuntity to catch up.
3. My college roomies are all on Facebook now. We had to share memories and drinking stories.
4. I needed to view the updated pictures of my godchild.
5. Some of my childhood friends were on an exchange trip with the school my husband attended. I needed to get pictures from his high school years and pick up stories from the time before we’d me.
6. I’ve re-connected with my childhood best friend, who I hadn’t communicated with since grade 8.
7. Kids I babysat as infants are now in university and I had to catch up on what’s new in their lives through their Facebook pages.
8. Everyone needed to see pictures of the hubby once he’d returned from his month away in the field. Otherwise, no one would believe he’d grown a mustache and hadn’t shaved his head in over a month.
9. I reconnected with the guy who’d introduced me to my hubby. I had to spend time thanking him.
10. I had to post messages of adoration on Clayton’s Facebook page.
11. I wanted to know who else worked at the same college I am now employed by.
12. I needed to commisserate with former co-workers on the groups message boards.
13. Facebook is a social software phenomenon that we’ve been discussing at work and that has been the feature of some presentations at the eLearning conference I’m attending this week. I was doing research!

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