Today I would like to talk about Friendster. Friendster was introduced to me by a coworker about a year ago, and I resisted the temptation to join for almost the entire year. It seemed to me like more of a status tracker than a networking website - the person with the most friends is clearly the most popular...

But, an old friend from college reached out to me and asked me to join, so I did, and found a number of people I've been curious about.

Why am I mentioning all this? Because sometime, I question people's judgement on Friendster.

Two days ago, I received a friend request from a person whose name I can't mention, but I will say that his initials are DM. For the uninitiated, a friend request is when someone wants to add you to their network of friends, but you have to accept it first.

Well, this request came from someone who, shall I say, was not a very good friend in real life. Without getting into a lot of detail, he was a very very good friend who took the word of someone against mine, and decided I wasn't worth being friends with. It was a betrayal, in most senses of the word.

Of all the people in the world, this person's backstabbing and badmouthing hurt more than most romantic heartbreaks I've had.

And I get the impression that he has no idea - no idea that that our friendship didn't just 'dissolve' from the distance, but that he chose to end it. No idea that I had to deal with the repercussions of what happened for more than five years afterwards. And that I know, I KNOW, that the person whose side he took over mine is not even in his life now.

Why am I dwelling on this? I know most people would say - Jaime, let the past go...just move on.

But things are different today. Today, I am directionless and floundering. Does it make sense to to just write off the past what I can't even fathom the future?

ps. I'm looking for a job. Does anyone know of a job for someone with the following qualifications:

Good at rolling calls
scheduling
travel planning
multi-tasking
Problem-solving

Not good at:

Taking s**t from someone just because they make movies for a living and think they are somehow better than everyone else.