Blogs, Facebook for making friends

If you're the parent of a college-bound person, you do know about TheFacebook, don't you? S/he probably does, because it's about more than social networking. It also eases the transition for growing numbers of incoming university students nationwide. "Before college classes start later this month, thousands of freshmen in South Florida will have moved into their dorms, made friends, joined clubs and planned parties - all without setting foot on campus," the Miami Herald reports. The Herald says more than 10,000 University of Miami students "are registered on Facebook … nearly 8,000 at Florida International University; 1,000 at Nova Southeastern; and hundreds at Lynn and Barry Universities - not to mention the legions of local high school students heading out of state." TheFacebook has around 3 million registered users on their way to nearly nearly 900 campuses nationwide. Read the Herald piece to understand how useful a tool this is for students. Read an article at AZCentral.com (our of Phoenix) to see how high school and college students use blogs and TheFacebook to meet people, and specifically how "Adam Norris, 18," uses his blog to "meet girls." "Norris, a self-described geek with a slight frame … says he has more than 300 'friends' on his MySpace[.com] account, and he has communicated with each of them."