I don't get Facebook. Every time I think I understand bits of it I find I don't. You have to sign up with your real name, although you could make something up, thinking about it. But then there's more than one person with each name. So when you try to find someone you have no idea whether they're the right one unless they have a photo which you recognise them in. It won't let you see people's profiles unless you're their friend.

Or you're in the same network. But you can only change networks once a month, which isn't terribly helpful for stalker potential. Neither is if they're not in a network. People have told me it's like Friends Reunited only better, in terms of getting in touch with people you went to school with. I use Friends Reunited to find out what the people I hated at school are up to. And generally they're living sad little lives. I can't keep up with them all on Facebook - I don't want them to know I'm stalking them and can't change my network enough.

So I'm kind of thinking of it like a list of people I know and interests. There's no point writing anything on it because that's what this is for. There's no point uploading photos to it because that's what flickr is for. And my website is for anything else. And the wall is like email only requiring more effort.

I've joined groups, mostly when Emma invites me and I just agree to anything on that front. And then I discovered that all sorts of conversations go on on these. You have a news page that gives you all sorts of useless information but not when one of the discussions you're interested in has updated. So it's more useless than RSS Feeds, Message Boards and email.

So I don't just get it. Apart from just agreeing to when anyone friends/requests confirmation/invites me to a group what am I supposed to do with it?