Facebook and Networking...

I've been hot and cold on Facebook.

Thanks to Ari Goldberg, I am hot again.

I caught up Ari (he does tech support, if you need it) at a New Year's brunch today at the Guggenheim's (more on that later) and he tells me:

"You know, we have a friend in common, Joel Haber. I haven't seen him since High School, but I found him because I saw he was a friend of yours on Facebook. I looked at his profile and I see that he is

1. supporting the WGA strike
2. interested in being a writer

As it turns out, I know someone who is pretty high up in the WGA, so I brokered the introduction."

There, my friends, in a nutshell is the power of Internet-based social networking.