This page should have black text against a blue gradient background that starts lighter at the top and bottom and gets darker in the middle. I got the CSS with a gradient picker that has presets like your car radio and outputs the CSS you must use to get it onto a page. It worked as it should have.
The gradient editor is a standalone web page that can be used to create back grounds like the one that shows here.
After seeing the "Social Network" movie about the founding of Facebook, I decided to give it a try. I created an account and answered a set of questions based on which Facebook pointed out people that may know me. Once you do this it becomes obvious the the advantage of social networking is that the system can use your criteria to guess at whom you might know, and help you make contact, after they accept your "punch", and you have similar rights.
So, in my case, it found people I had gone to high school and suggested names of people that I might contact. The augmentation is that they can include you in their circle and so the number of people who find out about you can grow quite fast. I didn't set it up so that anyone could se my profile, they would have to ask if first or I would have to "friend" them. This became a nane-recognition game at first and then accepting active querries.
My memory of school, many of the people I had gone to high school, had gone to grammer school or jr. high, that wasn't called "middle school" until my kid's generation, was that I was a loner with few friends and certaintly not in any "in" group although I had achieved academic honors and had advanced placement. What really surprized me was that several of the 30 or so out of 500 people that knew about me had gotten a big impression in some way or other. I had no idea that I had affected others enough that they could tell stories more than 50 years on.