Well and truly poked

Well, I've finally done it. A little later than everyone else, but never mind! Yes, in addition to (re-)starting a blog, I joined everyone else on Facebook almost to the day that it turned 5 years old.

I had my reasons for not joining before - like many, I felt that I was already in touch with the people I wanted to be in touch with. I didn't, however, subscribe to some of the weird and wonderful conspiracy theories that others have come up with for not joining.

I've now caught the bug, and have just lost almost an entire weekend catching up with old school and workmates, most of whom are just as I remember albeit, like me, having wrinkled slightly over the past fifteen years! Strangely, very few of the mates I met at university appear to be on, I've no idea why. It sounds rather quaint now, but when I graduated from my undergraduate degree back in 1998, none of us had mobile phones or e-mail addresses - I remember writing and posting loads of letters to fellow ex-students about my first job!