$1.5 billion

that's how much mark zuckerberg is worth.
he's 24.
i'm going to be 24 in less than 3 months.
so sad.

i do love facebook, though. and i remember the first day that skidmore was added. i had written a message to the facebook gods requesting that they extend their membership from just those in the ivies to the rest of us in just as elite institutions. i got a message back [do they still even do that?] which said they were working on it. a few mornings later, i woke up to




alex kasprak was my first friend. i think it's because we were the only two to have joined at that point. i think i've spoken all of 7 words to him after that friend request.
oh well. i think we're still friends to this day.

there was a point to this post that i can no longer remember.
i'm sorry.
remember when our facebook homepages looked like this?



your picture, the number of friends you were connected to through classes [what? i don't even remember that.] and the number you were connected to through other friends.
basically, how popular you were. right there, smack dab in the middle of the first page you saw when you signed in.
"hey joe, you are connected to 17 people through friends. that means you probably have 2 friends of your own and you're lame as shit."
or
"welcome, alice! you are connected to 142,533,634,221,368 people through friends. wow! you must have soooo many friends and be, like, super awesome! we want to be friends with you, too! tell us how it's done!"

and the birthday alerts, right there for you to feast your eyes on with such ease. come onnn, why'd they have to throw the birthdays down to the right, requiring me to put forth the effort to actively search for the section by scrolling? scrolling?? ugh.
why do you make me work so hard, facebook?

now i have the hiccups.

[EDIT: 12:49PM.
i remember what the point of this post was going to be. it was that last night, when facebooking craigslist-ers who were interested in the punching bag that matt was selling, i think i accidentally invited one of them to join facebook. i didn't mean to. and i don't even know if that's what i did. but, because i have my language set to pirate mode, i did something. and i'm not quite sure what.
but, it was something that i immediately guessed to be wrong as soon as "Congrats, matey! A demand to join ye ol' facebook has been sent to the livery bilge rat [insert email address here]" popped up on the screen.
whoops.]