I've given in...I'm on Facebook

After being invited by a few friends and acquaintances and having a handful of conversations with people where the phrase "it was on Facebook" was used as the reason for knowing random pieces of info, I've finally decided to take the plunge and join Facebook. After a couple of days of being a member, I'm not sure how I feel about it. So I'll break down my likes/dislikes about Facebook itself and the concept of Facebook:

Likes

• Privacy Controls. In particular, controlling who can see you in the Facebook search.
• Email notifications when there's activity on my wall
• Integration with Yelp and other social media sites
• Seeing what's new with friends all in one place
• Making contact with people I haven't talked to in years! It's good to know that people are doing well.
  

Dislikes

• That middle school/high school feeling that I need to have more friends
• The concept of logging into a computer to get 'human' contact. Gotta love technology!
  
• Reading all the random updates from 'friends' that I didn't really need to know but read because I could.
  

It's only been a couple of days and so far the Facebook experience seems to be worthwhile. I'll check in again in a month.