By CT Staff
January 20, 2005

Like so many of my peers, I have gotten caught up in TheFacebook craze. TheFacebook isn’t just about measuring popularity by the amount of friends one has. It’s about measuring popularity through classmates, chance encounters, people whose mailbox is located near yours or anyone else who won’t reject you when you try to befriend them.

In addition to the people like me, who joined TheFacebook on Aug. 1 when it opened up to the UR community, many normal, less Internet dependent people have joined. Currently, over 2,000 UR students are members. It’s time that we set up several ground rules.

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