After plenty of cajoling from various friends to get one of the damn things, I've finally been persuaded, by probably one of the very few people who could have done it, to get my own Facebook account.

The first exhilarating moments were just that, exhilarating; seeking out all the friends I had, and seeing what they're up to now and what they look like. But after having an account for a few days, I now see it in a slightly different light: further to the exhilaration, I now identify it as being a covert attempt to supersede XMoto for the 'Distraction of the Year Award 2008'. It's a little-known fact that, while I ought to be writing on my blog like a good and well-behaved young lad, XMoto is wont to garner my attention, and draw me away from my work. Now in its place, or sitting right beside it, we find Facebook. And this is the reason you now find me blogging way into the middle of the night (currently 3:23), when, were it not for such distractions, it would have been done hours ago.

And it isn't just the Facebook site itself which proves distracting, but the sites I find myself discovering while I browse. The latest discovery has been the Finnish music group Loituma, whom I discovered after joining the Linguistics group on Facebook, and learning of a person being drawn to Finnish after discovering a certain video containing a song they sing, 'Ievan Polkka' (which is the song as sung by them in the video below, although it isn't the video to which the guy referred). I've since spent a fair amount of time seeking them out on YouTube, and on Wikipedia, and then downloading their début album with Nicotine+. A fine enough way to spend ones time, but sleeping at this hour would be far more beneficial.