My face, facebook

I finally joined facebook.

I've been observing from the sidelines and now seems like a reasonable time to get involved. More from a research perspective (for interesting work opportunities) than from an actual participation point of view.

A lot of it feels like a big time waste, to be honest, but there are some very clever features. I like the way it kind of "self-discovers" interesting things about you and your network simply based on yours and other's email address books. It's quite amazing how that network is structured - and it allows you to see what your existing network looks like (rather than letting you create an artificial one - like LinkedIn etc).

So it has some very interesting potential from all sorts of perspectives. I'll keep you posted.