You know these stupid questionnaires .. about how the average "Computer Geek" might know 15 people on the other side of the world but does not know what his or hers next door neighbour looks like ? You might call me one of those yeah. Well, both of us really. Our cellphone hardly rings with friends calling up to chat with us, we don't get a lot of text messages ... Any form of "local communication" like for example a phone call, a written letter or "somebody dropping by" is quite scarce at "Casa del Knightwise 2.0".

But  we don't fit the profile of being "social outcasts" or hermits.. We interact heavily with other people .. but not always in our own timezone. Other people have friends in the local Football club, or take their dog to "puppy school" where the can meet with people from the area. We don't really do those kinds of things. Yeah sure, Plenty of Emails coming in, plenty of communication going on .. but not with people on this part of the planet. Most of our contacts are people from abroad and people we know online.

But that has kind of changed the last few weeks. Tinkering around with my Facebook profile I decided to punch up some names from old friends and relatives that I have know. And what do you know: Facebook profiles started to pop up all over the place. Before I damn well knew what was going on I was getting befriended by people whom I've know for years but had lost touch with. Former girlfriends that now live far far away .. Former co-workers.. old friends ... and some of them even speak DUTCH ! !  It was a strange clash of worlds in all. My online profile and handle 'Knightwise' is well known in the virtual communities I'm a part of. Most of you won't even KNOW my real name. And for me .. thats just fine. But now I was hooking up with people that know me from "the real world' and they have NO IDEA who the hell "Knight Wise" is. Only thanks to my face on the picture did they make out who I was. 

So as most hip cyber-people agree that Facebook is so "last year"  I am (for once) sticking around , building a little community of people I know from real life. I even get to write back and forth in Dutch. Some people who are on my Facebook profile are even in the region where I could ring them up for a BBQ. What an awesome idea ..  So call me lame.. Call me noob .. but I like my Facebook buddies. The ones that reside in the real world and those that are my virtual co-citizens. They both make my Facebook profile a bridge between both worlds.. Good friends in both places !