High School Yearbooks Or High School Facebooks?

The traditional high school yearbook may one day be replaced by a high school Facebook.

If you don't know what Facebook is, you must have been in cryogenic storage for the last decade. Anyone can create a website—if they know how to program html, or have software that does, or hires someone that does. The brilliance of Facebook is that it made it free and easy for anyone to create a Facebook, even someone who is almost completely computer illiterate. These people with pages can easily connect to each other.

Facebook is a clever term which is intended as a replacement for phonebook. The implication is that the visual will replace the phone, that the computer will replace the phone.

Very few people younger than 30 don't have Facebook pages. Some laud this, some detest it, regardless, Facebook is here to stay. It's as likely to go away as the income tax.

It would be easy to host a yearbook on Facebook. Facebook pages of each member of a class would simply be linked together on a new Facebook page. A Facebook yearbook would allow people to be tracked over time.

Then every classmate can know all the undignified drivel from high school classmates as well as other friends. The entire class can bombard the yearbook place with discussion of useless minutiae, making it seem like watershed news.

Awesome!

Don't want to suggest anything decadent, but maybe a yearbook should be antiquated, should not be kept current. Maybe its chief appeal, virtue, and redeeming quality is the fact that it is behind the times.

And what I actually cherish privacy? Don't want a whole high school class to know why whereabouts or new favorite color? Tough titties, bro, or so they tell me. Privacy is the past, man. I've gotta get with the times and embrace the new flood of completely unreflective communication.

Facebook gives the NSA and CIA a big raging boner. Could it be any easier to track everyone? One mole at Facebook or back door in their code, and any lemming can be instantly tracked ad nauseum. So much for starting a movement to cut taxes via Facebook. IRS'll be auditing you quicker than you can click like this tax cut proposal.

Oh, wait, I just farted, better Facebook it. I just saw something green, better Facebook it. I just saw something, red, better Facebook it. I just saw something, better Facebook it. I didn't see anything, better Facebook it. I can't see, better Facebook it.

Maybe I'm just getting old and crusty, but when I heard people talking about making yearbooks into a unified Facebook, I wanted to take my own life. But I can't kill myself. Once I'm dead, how would I Facebook everyone about my suicide?