Eating food at the movie theater is almost as fun as watching the movie itself.

It’s expensive, but there’s nothing quite like it.

Yes, I’ve tried making microwave and stove-top popcorn at an attempt to recreate that movie theater taste, but the result is always the same.

It can’t be done — impossible, like trying to make a Big Mac at home.

As a result, I make sure I buy popcorn at the movie theater every time I go — lots of butter, a medium pop and a box of cookie dough bites.

I then open the cookie dough bites and pour the contents into the popcorn bag because for some reason, it just tastes better that way.

Now I don’t need popcorn and candy to watch a movie, but it sure makes the experience more enjoyable.

The same type of argument can be made about Facebook.

Can we live without Facebook? Contrary to the claims of some of the younger generation, we can.

But for them and for others, Facebook can make life a little more enjoyable sometimes.

I started my Facebook account at the end of last year.

I have 109 “friends.”

Are they really friends?

Yes and no.

Most of them are people who either are my friends, are relatives or were my friends at one time and thanks to the brilliance of the Internet I’ve been able to find them again, or they have found me.

My sisters want nothing to do with Facebook.

“There are some people you just don’t want to find,” my sister Jen says.

Even though I gave her the argument that you don’t have to accept them as a friend, I can still see her point.

So who exactly are these friends of mine on Facebook?

Well, two are childhood friends who used to live on the same street as my grandmother in Oregon.

I hadn’t heard from them in roughly 20 years until now.

Some are former coworkers, college classmates or friends of the family.

I have some who all of a sudden are married now and have kids.

That’s amazing to me because when I last saw them we were simply passing by each other in the halls of high school.

I’m sure everyone approaches Facebook in different ways.

For high school students, their “friends” really probably are “their friends,” people who they talk to on a regular basis.

For others, it’s a way to reconnect with people they haven’t seen in years.

This can be a good thing or a bad thing.

My sisters think it’s more bad.

I think it’s more like the popcorn and the cookie dough bites.

It makes the whole Internet thing a little bit more enjoyable.