Am fac(e)ing another addiction

It was 2004 june when I was under training in my company I heard of http://Orkut.com/. People use to ask me if I was there on Orkut but I as innocent as ever and unaware of all the techi-stuff going around me, used to say no. It was then I decided to make an acount on the same. I was pretty inactive member for the first year of it but now, after 3 years, I have 375+ friends and 4K scraps (scraps are less as compared to my friends list but then everywhere I went had messengers so never felt a need of Orkut to chat atleast). Laterly Orkut have been an addiction to me. Now usually thats the first site I open whenever I switch on my laptop. Arbitrarily,I go to 15-20 friends profile and drop a hi so that they can reply me back and hence increasing my scrap count ... lol... I have been doing this since last many many months and I attribute it to all my travelling, a hell lot in India as well as in US now and hence definitely add people on Orkut as friend whom I meet. My next short term target is 400 friends. :-)

Now, these days, a new addiction has caught me -- "http://Facebook.com/". A short history of facebook.com. Like Orkut is keep-in-touch application for India and few other Asian countries, facebook is the Orkut of US/UK. 'Facebook' is/was a booklet that is/was given to the new joinees at Harvard University which helped the know the place and people in the novel world. This application was developed by and was open for student at Harvard long back but was later opened for other universities too and probably since 2006 it was open for general public. Now here on facebook there are hell lot of stuff to do which I guess which was obvious been built up by/for Harvard. There are a lot of applications/ games etc that a person can pass his/her time on. Many of those applications have been made by Indians (obvious again :-) )

Latest, I am a pirate cruising over the endless sea, encountering islands to search Booty, attack enemies (may be my friend sitting right beside me playing the same game), stealing gold, attcking villages,pillaging , going to harbour for a drink etc etc.

You can play scrabble too with your friends. Its like, you play your turn and wait for your friend to take his turn so no obligations to sit continuously. :o)
Then there are quizzes and competition. Quizes to judge your movie knowledge, your geography etc etc. I guess if I ask where is the vancouver island or where is Timbaktu then I know it'll be a lil difficult for you to answer it but then I am pretty good at it now. :BProbably there is so much in it that its difficult to chalk down here for sure.

So, do remember if you are ready to get into this quicksand, be prepared with your escape.