What life's like now with Facebook

I never thought of myself as an online person. More a bookish person. In spite of "being in IT" as they call it 11 years. In spite of getting Hotmail, Yahoo and GMail accounts as soon as they were available. And in spite of creating blogs that I never used that I eventually forgot the user names and passwords. Now that really doesn't describe an online person, you might say. And you'd be quite right. For many, this must be a dichotomy to deal with daily.

Am I with it if I have a second life and a LinkedIn profile and 500 friends on Facebook? And of course, previously tracked 50 out of 395 friends on Orkut?

I used to be with it when I was spotted spending hours at the British Council, but that was then. Now, I've waited years before getting myself a copy of The Kite Runner, and reach for the laptop at 10.30 to check FB updates instead of reaching for that copy. Reading, from a hard copy book, if only ten pages at the end of the day gave it a kind of meaningful end. Got to change back to that starting today.