It starts with current friends, friendly professional contacts, and people you like but don't know very well or only know virtually. Then it extends to college friends and a family member or two (the younger ones). Soon old neighbors and high school friends appear; did you know there's a Facebook group for your high school graduating class? Yikes! This bunch of folks is particularly wonderful (fun to catch up) but also particularly dangerous (they have lots of embarrassing photos of you from the 1980s). Over time more family members appear, and then before you know it even your mom is on Facebook. Hi Mom! Finally, all it takes for the last shoe to fall is one link to the grade school friends. At that point we are talking about kids you took first communion with, girlfriends who were there for your first (failed) experiments with eye makeup, and fellow fans of A Flock of Seagulls.
Congratulations! Now your whole life is on Facebook.
Enjoy.
And this is a good thing because...?
I just don't get it. Then again, I've been over 35 for some time now.
Posted by: V | 06 February 2009 at 04:40 PM
So true...I don't know how it has happened. It seemed so innocent at first. Now even worse, my more hip social activist friends have become facebook friends...and they have lots of status updates and requests for me to sign virtual petitions.
Posted by: Michelle S. | 07 February 2009 at 12:04 AM