Counting friends

Don't let the title scare you. I'm not in the process of listing up buddies I could hit for money. Despite working for banks, the financial crisis hasn't taken me down that road, yet.

The counting I refer to concerns Laura.
After years of resistance, she fell neck deep into web 2.0 But let me place that in its context.

Back in '01, before we started dating, she declined my request, emailed from Nepal, to help me out with my website. Being asked to edit my clumsy posts, she eluded with a comment to the effect that there was "a fly in her soup". Writer's humor!
Then in '06, she got more cooperative with my newly created blog -that would be the present one. All it took to convince her was.. getting married, and traveling together, this time.

But then, too many of those "you're on facebook right?" made her take the fatal step. She signed up!
First was the excitement, with it's daily quiz welcoming me home "guess how many friends I have"
Today, Laura is getting overwhelmed with posts on her wall, pokes and kisses. She's frowning her eyebrows reading names of wannabee friends "who is that person?" Also, it's hard to keep up when you have among your best friends hyper active social networkers, like Alison, and a baby that wants noting more than pulling keys off your keyboard -note to self: are replacement keys a good Christmas gift?

By the way, Laura has now 40 friends listed!