funny facebook

i was playing around with facebook this evening and got the idea to start "classifying" all my friends into the following categories:

• leander (high school)
• georgetown naz 
• minnesota
• SNU (undergrad or when i was teaching, or if you went there)
• Grad School / Life Counseling Center
• family
• brenham
• other friends (that i know via gabriele or some other connection altogether)

it was really an interesting and difficult project.  as i scrolled thru my friend list (259 of them), my memories of everyone started to blur together, and it became difficult to remember who i knew when.  it was especially difficult for people that i knew during the years i've moved (1992, 1996, 2008, and pretty much every year during college).  did i go to church and college with them?  wait...did i go to high school with them...or middle school?  or, did i know them when i was in high school but they lived somewhere else, then later we were friends again?  

a really cool tool that i've found to visually illustrate the interconnectedness of friends is the "friend wheel" on facebook.  you can see mine if you go to the 'boxes' tab on my profile.  very nifty.