Friends?

Add me as your friend? The big deal with social networking sites like myspace and facebook is having friends. But what happens when you refuse to become someone's friend? Apparently, to be polite people add friends who they don't really want to add. Once this reaches a critical mass, people tend to move on to a different service. From friendster to myspace to facebook, all in search of the perfect set of friends. I'd like to see the behavior of kids BB's age on their own networking sites. Unfriending your friends and adding them back again would be the main source of activity.

Over the holiday, we gave BB some Pokemon trading cards to entertain him on the drive. He promptly took them to school yesterday and began trading with some other kids. He even gave away his favorite, Empolean. No one has been able to figure out what you do with the cards other than trade them, but each creature/character has qualities and abilities that fits into a larger game--which began on video. The cards work, I guess, like dungeons and dragons, which you play in a similarly imaginary way.