Joseph Natividad

Unsuccessful Roommate Search through Facebook

My dorm room assignments were sent to me via email this morning. In a world where you could search for almost anyone connected to a social network (or utility, as Facebook likes itself to be called), how come my two roommates happened to be virtually nonexistent aside from the information that the school had given me?

I was definitely counting on looking both of them up on Facebook too. One of them comes all the way from Maryland while the other is from a town near Sacramento called Citrus Heights. I have no clue what their interests are but I hope that we?ll all end up getting along in our triple bunk-bed arrangement. It?s going to be pretty cramped in there?I could already see it.

I was never part of the MySpace crowd or even a member of any social networking site until Facebook had taken over part of my social life this summer.

Most of my dorm mates that had a Facebook profile seem like pretty interesting people so far. No one can really tell until we interact with each other in person.

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