This is just a friendly reminder that...

Holyyyyyyy-Z-O-M-friggin-G the Dan Bergstein Facebook chat is Thursday, Nov. 12 from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. EST, which is so so so very close to right now.

Have you:

Found out what time zone you're in?
RSVP'd on Facebook?
Thought of amazing questions for Dan?
Learned to take screenshots of your name right next to Dan's unedited, off-the-cuff responses, so you can make a desktop background/t-shirt/plaque/bowling ball/birthday cake for your momma out of every sentence he types?
Found a nice man with a dirty van to kidnap your younger siblings so they don't bug you while you're chatting with Dan?
Told someone you love them today? (For good karma.)

Yes?! Fantastic! All you need to do is click on our Facebook discussion tomorrow anytime between 3 and 9 to participate.

Got questions? We got answers. Leave your Qs about the Dan B. Facebook chat in the comments, and we (your devoted eds) will respond!

Sparklers, we're super thrilled to announce that Dan Bergstein is going to do a six-hour interview with...

YOU.

Which should you turn to when you’re bored out of your skull: TV or the internet?

Points for the Internet
-There is always something to do online. Each Wikipedia page has links to check out, there’s always another funny video on Youtube, and there are News Feed updates to read on Facebook. You can waste hours online.

This week's letter-writer was the victim of an unexpected faceslam:

Hi Auntie Sparknotes,
I know my problem will seem stupid compared to some of the others but still its bugging me and...well I wanted to see what you had to say. Okay I was on Facebook and I suddenly decided to send a friend request to this guy in one of my classes. He seemed nice and I didn't see any harm in it but as you probably guessed he either ignored or denied me. I know this is dumb but I'm kinda embarrassed. School starts in a few days and I'm scared of running into him in the hallways. Plus I really don't know why he rejected me...we talked a few times and he seemed nice enough. I know I should probably just ignore him but what if we're in the same class...or have to be partners! What should I do if either of those things happen...I mean it'd be weird to ignore someone you're suppose to be working with.
-SeniorSay

What? An ignored friend request? That’s not a problem, you big crybaby! Now go away, and don’t write to me again until your boyfriend’s broken up with you via text message and your house is on fire AND one of your legs has been eaten by piranhas!

Attention all Facebook users: We owe Canada a big ole' thank you for pushing our favorite social networking site to amend and improve their privacy policies. The changes include requiring "third-party applications" (Mafia Wars anyone?) to specify the type of personal information they want to access each and every single time they want to dig around in our data. Although many of us realize that Facebook owns our identities has some holes in their privacy policy, only Canada was bold enough to step forward and say "Um, excuse us, but could you please comply with our national laws?"

It's safe to say that most of us spend a good deal of our real lives living in the digital world—right SparkLife blog readers/commenters/obsessives? But what if, for a single day, we all lived our digital lives in reality? Comedian Rob Huebel tried to do just that by breathing 3-D life into the Twitter trend FollowFriday. You see, FollowFriday gives Twitterers the chance to suggest other Twitterers for people to follow, making for a more exciting Twitter Feed. Huebel decided to literally follow people one Friday, making for some seriously awkward (but hilarious) interactions.

In the name of comedy and the time-space continuum, we'd like to honor the physical world by offering some ideas that will help you merge the digital and the tangible:

Last week Kathryn had some excellent advice about not posting personal love notes to your bf/gf/crush on Facebook where everyone and their mother can see them. But sometimes it’s not the unbridled passion of new love that makes everybody on Facebook the most uncomfortable—it’s what happens when the people who spent six months posting “ILYSM BABE!!!” on each other’s walls suddenly split up. Now your Newsfeed is clogged up with two people having a meltdown in the form of Facebook status updates.

We here at Sparklife wholeheartedly sympathize with anyone going through a rough breakup—it sucks. But there are a lot of good reasons why typing “I HATE YOU DEREK” on a public forum might not be the best way to handle a bad situation.

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Sparklers, trust us when we say we are super duper excited that some of you are all googly-eyed and weak-kneed in lurv with your BFs and GFs. First loves are palm-sweatingly, heart pitter-patteringly, Celine Dion-inspiringly exciting.

We understand the desire to shout your undying commitment to the world. But there is a place and a time, and Facebook status updates are neither of those.

Sparkler thisistoomuch10 tells the story of a new kind of addiction, and how she broke her habit. Enjoy! —SparkNotes Editors

We all are fully aware that all Facebook is good for is quizzes and posting endless pictures of yourself for all of your friends to see. But what happens when this site turns against you? What happens when all 400 bazillion of your friends couldn’t give a hoot about you? This is my story:

Social media addicts everywhere were frenzied last week when hackers hit Twitter and Facebook, causing delays on both sites. The attack not only delayed our scheduled superpoking, it illustrated just how dependent we’ve become on online interaction. In case you’re too busy tweeting to notice, here are some signs you might be addicted to social media:

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