It started a couple of years ago — my interest in social networking websites, that is. My wife, Jamie, had just gotten off a call with one of her oldest friends. Apparently, her friend had just joined some computer-based group that enabled her to get back in touch with some of her childhood friends with whom she had lost contact. Jamie asked me, “Have you ever heard of something called Facebook?”

I responded, “Facebook, what’s Facebook?” To the computer we went. I speak without hyperbole when I say that our lives would never be the same.