facebook is the place where we can get all excited about finding friends that we have lost for many decades, names that we can barely remember and faces that have changed so much since we last laid eyes. it's really an invention that should win the praise of millions, just like steve jobs, only nobody is ever grateful for things that are still around. there is also the fact that millions of manpower hours are lost on cooking food we will never get to eat, farm produces that are only virtual and will never help the world poverty and poking people for no apparent reason than to remind others that we are still alive. those annoying parts perhaps we do not need.

through facebook, i've found many old friends, and many old friends have found me. people that have coursed through my mind on and off over the last few decades, i am finally able to look at their family photos, their vacation pix and know how they are faring now. it's like being able to scratch an itch somewhere deep inside, a peek at the pages that come after the 'happily ever after'. however, after the initial euphoria has died, you slowly realise, wonderful as it may be to finally see your best friends when you were in school, interesting as it may be to see how some of them have changed, that these people are actually strangers to you now. you may remember all too clearly some of the conversations that took place then, but it is no longer the same person that you befriended again on facebook. the little boy with the sweetest smile who had a crush on you for the longest time is now cold and distant after an unhappy divorce. the little girl whom you spent every school hour side by side with is a pleasant and sweet acquaintance at best. the friendships that you have lost to time, it is lost forever. if you turn back to look, nothing stands in place. only emptiness, a memory of what had been and a smile in reminiscent.