Facebook is addictive. I’ve been on it for less than two days and I can’t get off it. There are just so many cool photographs on there, of me and my friends, including one of almost my entire group of friends taken at the last brandies. Although in it I’m wearing my large blue frock, and I look kind of drunk, it truly is beautiful. For it is a symbol of the friendship between a great group of people. surely, this photograph is possessed of what Barthes called ‘The Punctum’ – the ability of the photograph to prick or wound. Wound it does, as, looking at it, and remembering so many great things about the people within it’s frame, one realises with great regret that you may never see some of these people again.

Mind you, with networks like facebook, I rather doubt that!