told you it was addictive

it's surprising how some things on the internet can be a phenomenon overnight. take FB for instance. gone were the days we were all on friendsters where uploading photos took forever. where cool glittery messages does not appear most of the time. where if your friends are checking out your profile and it appears in 'who has viewed you' there would be this awkward moment where you think why so and so is checking you out. where if you chose to spy silently then be ready to get spied on. where there's too many 'chain letters' circulating around. it was just a year ago that i joined FB. i joined it because this is what the aussies use for networking. like how we malaysians and singaporeans were using friendsters. it was how i kept contact with my honours buddies. leaving them messages for them to reply when they're free. since for some msn at work is a no no. we organized events. we shared photos. we drew graffiti for each other. now it's like an addiction. i have to check it everyday without fail now. no wonder the polls are saying that workplace is becoming less productive since FB was introduced. of course i do refrain from making comments, or playing games, or spying on people while i'm at work.

one guy at our student room actually 'announced' that he's on FB for more than one hour during working hours. like as if that's something to be proud of? anyways just some weird AMS (medical student) whom we don't really fancy because he seems to be doing things not to our liking for someone new to our environment. moving things around without asking permission, complaining about the workload when most of the time we see him doing nothing.

ok where was i? have i told you guys that my supervisor has FB too? now even his wife has FB!? it's kinda cool but freaky at the same time. have to be especially careful when updating status. there was once min was putting some comment on her status and when she went to meet my supervisor regarding work, the first thing he did was asked her about her FB status! O.o and now that he has his new gadget i.e. the one and only iPhone, you can see him uploading status from his mobile all the time! thankfully there's this function where we can go offline while on FB else he'll be on alert to catch us slacking at work. he actually asked me to form a group for the lab where we can organize events and upload photos and stuff. but i told him that it would only work if more of our lab people have FB. else the group would be redundant. hey talking about group! the st. vincent's postgraduate student society created a group just for us! not so happening yet though but it would be a good place for us to give in suggestions as to what other events we can organize. we just came back from our annual retreat last weekend and boy was it cold at philip island. and i LOVE go karting!! more about that next!