Eighty-five percent of college students are doing it.
Last semester, I attended the KU Etiquette Dinner to learn the proper way to eat during a business lunch or dinner. I can tell you it was painstaking to learn every little intricate area where I had to put my fork. We, the diners, were instructed that the proper way to thank a client or boss for lunch was to write a thank you note. An email was unacceptable.
But in today's 30 second sound byte world, I don't have time to write an email. I decided to write an email to myself and time it. After I typed in the address, subject, the pleasantries (hello, how are you, see ya later, sincerely Mark J. Zillman) I spent a good two minutes doing it.
That is unacceptable. Two minutes is a lifetime. That is a full TV timeout during a KU basketball game. I normally go to the bathroom, fix some nachos, chug a "soda" and have time to catch one of those ridiculously bad IBM server commercials before the game comes back on.
If only there were a way I could write one or two witty sentences about absolutely nothing but do it rapidly. Alas, there is www.facebook.com.
Facebook is the ever growing college (and now high school) online social networking spectacle. It includes more than 2,200 colleges and is the seventh most popular web site, just behind Google.
Facebook allows me to write a message on my friend's "wall," or message board, with ease. Of course, I have to search for my friends, ask them to be my friend, wait for a confirmation period, and then fill out additional information on how we are friends. After my friends confirm we are indeed friends by checking their email, then they can reply back that we are friends. My friends then can check their email to see if I have posted something on their "walls," log on to www.facebook.com and send a reply to my wall. Then I check my email and see if somebody has written on my wall.
Wow, that sure was a lot easier than writing an email!
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