Big Brother is watching...and waiting to take over

Yesterday I bowed to the peer pressure of ¾ of the people I know and signed up for a Facebook account. In less than 24 hours I have come to the conclusion that if someone wanted to take over the world, this would be the way to start. Get everyone in the world so involved in what everyone else is doing then no will notice that you have quietly taken over. For those of you unfamiliar with Facebook this thing tracks everything that you, and people you include as your friends, and people they include as their friends, do on your accounts and chronicles it all in a running ticker tape that you can review and know everything that everyone in your purview has done on their account. It tells you when someone makes a comment or adds pictures to their site; it tells you when someone makes a comment to your site or to someone else’s site. It also can tell you, who else on Facebook you might know and might like to invite to be your friend (while of course telling them about you as well). On the surface this is sort of nice, I just started my page yesterday and I already have 10 friends, but simultaneously I am starting to feel like Big Brother is watching. A luddite at heart, maybe I am not quite ready for this ‘social networking’ experience.