I’m not on Facebook. There. I said it. Somehow, life keeps churning forward. Every time I think I should (note that I don’t say “want to”) sign up, some weird privacy announcement comes up, and I lose my impetus. I just feel weird about another company owning so much of my stuff.

That being said, here are some rather amazing statistics about Facebook:

The World Is Obsessed With Facebook from Alex Trimpe on Vimeo.

(found via an announcement on our department’s listserv)

Good morning and Stop the presses! Mashable is reporting that those classic games of my childhood, Oregon Trail and Where In the World is Carmen Sandiego, are coming to Facebook.

Now … who out there remembers playing Oregon Trail 1.0 on a green-screen, where the animation was so slow your bullets never, ever hit the deer? Oh, yeah, baby. That was some slammin’ gamin’.

Those of you who know me know that I’ve made it some kind of game to see how long I can last staying off of Facebook without feeling like I am deprived of contact with all humanity. But this may just be what puts me over the edge … well, maybe if they get Rockapella back to do the music … or if there weren’t people out there saying that Facebook makes us sad …

But I digress. On with the show! Get your 5-1/4″ floppy disks out and let’s get moving!