I just joined Facebook. It seems cool.

I had joined MySpace previously so I could get a sense of what all the social networking fuss was about (I don’t really need more social connections; I can barely keep up with the ones I have). But I found the constant bogus requests from potential “Friends” from that site obnoxious and time-consuming. I would go check on people who had sent me requests and most of them turned out to be sex solicitations from busty-looking females who had some nefarious purpose (and probably didn’t really look like that, right)? (On the Internet, no one knows if you’re a dog, as the famous New Yorker cartoon asserted).

But Facebook seems different. It is easier to set up, more intuitive and obvious. It let me search for potential friends right away by scanning my email address book and turning up real people I actually wanted to connect with, including my sister and several nieces.

And I have already started a social networking group I have wanted to start for some time: Life Solutions.

This group is for anyone who has ever solved a problem in life and is willing to tell others how he, she or they did it. Have you ever gotten over a phobia, depression, an allergy? Ever made a bad or troubled relationship better? Ever gotten out of a bad situation intact? Have you ever gone through a terrible experience and somehow been able to get to a better place because of the experience?

Tell us your story, including the methods, realizations, changes, strategies, help you got or any other details so we might be able to reproduce your solution.

Consider joining Facebook. They just made the cover of Newsweek (August 20/27, 2007) and they were already growing at a phenomenal rate, so that should help them skyrocket.

See my page by clicking on this graphic:

I plan to post updates as I get more experience and spend more time on Facebook. Stay tuned.