There are a myriad of reasons why Facebook is the best social networking site around. I shall attempt to enumerate the many reasons I visit my Facebook page on a daily basis, sometimes more than once, and why my other profiles have gathered cobwebs in their little corner of cyberspace. And in this, my love letter to Facebook, I will not even mention that other site, whatever it's called, because Facebook is so awesome that it eclipses all others.

All your friends are on it. I'm not kidding! When I joined, all I had heard of Facebook was that it was mostly a bunch of freshman college kids and teeny boppers bullshitting around, wasting time, and true, it is a bit of a time suck, but I was so surprised when I joined and seriously, everyone I ever knew and everyone they ever knew and so on had a profile! My boyfriend is the only person I know who isn't on Facebook and that's only because he's being stubborn. As an aside, I wonder if everyone's joined Facebook because it's so much easier than fighting with all your friends about why you won't join? I digress. Whatever the reason, whether it be true enthusiasm or mere laziness, that gets you to put up your profile, you will find that Facebook is incredibly entertaining and will get you in touch with people you'd forgotten existed.

There are no annoying automatic music pops up when you go to someone's site. I know, I know, some people really like that feature that allows you to customize your profile site but, let's be honest, I can't even read some of these sites that have gone totally overboard with the bling and the bells and, oh don't forget, the whistles. It's useless, disorganized, and, did I mention, annoying? At Facebook, there is no sifting through animated graphics that scream at you from the page, no fumbling for the volume button because Britney Spears is suddenly going all "It's Britney, bitch" at you and no wondering why the hell you can't find their wall to post whatever it was you went on there to post in the first place. No, on Facebook, it's all in the same place for everyone. And the personalization begins and ends with the personality one puts into the vital information, photos and applications which were all that you were interested in looking at in the first place. It's basically the difference between a car salesman screaming at you about CRAZY LARRY'S PRICES and a Mac commercial that's simple, useful and entertaining. And we all know how well Mac is doing these days! Crazy Larry? Who cares?!

Three, my high school reunion is being organized through Facebook. This is truly amazing. I, like others in my class, live nowhere near where I went to high school. Yet, my Class of 1998 President was not only able to get in touch with every single person from my graduating class, regardless of how far away they've moved, but with only one posting. Not only that, but he also set up polling questions asking things like where we wanted to have the party, should we get a band, should we have a sit-down dinner, etc. We all were able to have a say in real time! All our president had to do was create a "Class of 1998" group on Facebook, then send a message to the people he had kept in contact with from our class on Facebook and it just grew via word of mouth from there. Within a few days, literally, everyone who had graduated in that class was gathered in one group. Best part, I don't even have to go to the reunion in order to see who got fat, who's got kids, or who turned out to be a surprising, successful, super hottie as an adult! It's all right there on Facebook! This has saved us all time, mucho dinero, and the inevitable pain of reverting back to the roles we played as teenagers in that hell they call high school.

Four, you can play with your friends all day! That's right, with fun games like Scrabulous, Word Challenge, Attack, Bowling Buddies, Biggest Brain or Mob Wars, just to name a few of the thousands of games available, you can enjoy friendly competition with your comrades around the world. Scores are even updated in real time. It's really fun when you've got a group of people talking smack over Facebook about beating out the others' scores.

In the same vein, but minus the competition for those of you who are a bit more timid, you can send all kinds of fun reminders of your existence to your friends; you can fling a thong or throw Sarah Palin at them using Superpoke, send a flying spaghetti monster that hatches over the next three days from an egg via the Hatching Eggs application or a send a funny/beautiful/silly flower through the Growing Gifts application. You can choose and display all kinds of witty buttons a la T.G.I.Friday's with the Pieces of Flair application or publish the books you've read, what you're reading and what's next on your list of must-reads using the Visual Bookshelf application. Those apps are just a tiny, microscopic really, sampling of the many wonderful applications available to Facebook users that allow you to share...well...you.

The applications aren't where the fun stops, either. You can also easily post whatever article from the web has tickled your fancy that day, comment on it and people can comment back with their ideas. Especially with the heated election campaign, many fascinating threads have sprung up from posts on Facebook lately, especially between myself and my, sadly, Republican friends. Or you can write a simple note on whatever you're thinking, kind of like a blog, and people are welcome then to start a discussion thread on your treatise for the day.