Facebook and Family Reunions

For those of you who don't know the history of facebook. Four computer science students at Harvard developed the facebook idea for the purpose of social networking. Actually and truth be told they were looking for a new way to pick up women by having people post pictures of themselves and give updates about what they are doing. I might add, no word on whether these guys ever got laid from a meetup with a girl on facebook when they were in college, but maybe they have had sex now since they can pay for it, but back then, ahhh not so much. Fast forward a few years and we find that several countries have intermittently banned the use of facebook including North Korea, Vietnam, China and Pakistan some really forward thinking countries there. I am guessing these countries don't lead the world in having any Star Buck's or Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises either. My first thought would be, any country that bans facebook must be a good thing because you never hear anybody say about any of the aforementioned countries, "Someday when the wife and I retire, we thought about moving to (Insert country here) and live out our twilight years." On the other hand I think Facebook was actually invented by The Kodak Company for the sole purpose of giving people the opportunity to post pictures of themselves online that would normally never be seen by anyone other than close family or someone who got trapped in the family room at Thanksgiving with grandma. Think about this, grandma would have loved to take out all those old photo albums and posted pictures of Aunt Mabel winning a blue ribbon at the country fair in 1947 with her prize winning dill pickles. Basically with technology Facebook can take ordinary boring family pictures that mean absoulutely nothing to anybody else and in about fourteen and half seconds force feed them into millions of households around the world so that everyone else can say, "What the hell were they thinking posting that picture?"