I was rather slow to get into Facebook. Only recently I was forced to finally setup a profile after half dozen people I know online asked me for my profile. After getting a basic profile going and getting used to the navigation that is as vanilla as they come, I started to connect to friends and family. I was surprised to find people I knew from high school suddenly messaging me and asking me about how I was doing. Through my other friend’s profiles, they had already made connections with mutual friends, and so I was able to find them also.
This is social networking at its best really. Facebook has done a very good job at allowing people to interact and make connections with people from similar backgrounds based on basic elements that are common to pretty much everyone. Facebook appears to be mostly geo-targeted towards the North American populace from what I can tell. Given the structure of the site, and the methods by which to find others, it certainly becomes difficult to apply the same methods to many other countries.
I am still new to Facebook, and am curious to see if my starter adds will mushroom out at all to other connections with other people. I like the variety of security options that it gives for viewing/accessing various elements of your information. That is very effective in keeping Facebook clean and spam free. Not to mention addressing issues that MySpace has been critisized for in terms of bringing security to their pages against stalkers and pedophiles.
I am however looking forward to seeing Facebook get a face-lift. Their interface is so ridiculously plain, every feature appears the same. Often by fluke I am finding options that make Facebook come a little more alive.
Facebook did do one good thing for me. I reconnected with a friend I have not seen in years, and now we are going out to see Spiderman 3 tomorrow. YAY! 
Looks like the past is connecting with the present.
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