Facebook

I joined MySpace a couple years ago, but never really did much with it. For the most part, I only used it to keep up with a couple of the young people I work with and some of my younger relatives. However, over the past year, I have hardly ever logged in to my Myspace account. And I certainly didn't have a Facebook account (mostly because it started as a college thing and I wasn't anywhere close to being a college student), but that has changed. So, Christmas day I opened a Facebook account for myself. And who are my friends? Well, my sister is one (but she is a Facebook member because she has a large family on her husband's side who she has to keep track of), and my friend Ted is another. And then there are my daughter and a number of nieces and nephews. I have looked for other people I know, and they aren't there. People of my generation, or at least those who I know, are not computer people. They don't see the computer as their friend; as their window onto the world.

So, I have a Facebook page and, as soon as I can find a picture that does not make me look like a pedophile, I'll post it...maybe I should scan one of those old pictures the kids were looking at over Christmas...my son (who does have a Facebook page although I don't think he uses it very much) said I look like Tom Sellick (sp?) so one of them might be usable. But that is not what I wanted to really talk about. I would love to use Facebook or one of the other social networking sites to keep up with both new and old friends...except that, as I said earlier, most of my generation doesn't do this. I get to play with the "kids" or I don't get to play at all. The latter is unacceptable (I love to play), so I will have to be satisfied with the former. And my children, nieces and nephews (and the odd cousin) will have to deal...