Nightshift blog

Like hundred of thousands of users, I was one of those who waited for the personalized username that Facebook offered. At stroke of 12 noon yesterday, I chose my own username.

Bad thing that facebook.com/herbert was already taken. So I have to content myself to facebook.com/hcarigma. It was done in less than a minute. I have to delay doing the grocery because I might be late in grabbing my preferred username.

Am not really into Facebook. It might be the tech-pressure that prompted me to sign up last December. Since 2003, I’ve been with Friendster and had connected with friends, classmates and co-workers. I even signed up with Multiply but has posted nothing. I declined Tag invitations. I feel that all these “social networking” websites are just networking but rarely a social one. I decline requests for approval for people I do not know.

But now that I have Facebook, I don’t think that I can totally abandon Friendster. I still treasure it because I have contacts with models, beauty queens, lawyers and potential lawyers, professors and journalists in it. Probably the only thing that would keep me on visiting Facebook is to navigate its applications.