So, last week Bob and I are on a plane winging our way to a "romantic" get away to Florida. You know we have been married a long time when a romantic get away consists of going to Spring Training baseball games. Really... every day. I'll admit it was fun. We went to the Phillie's, Pirate's and Tiger's parks and a good time was had by all. And of course we ate our way around the Bay area.
Anyway, he hands me a torn out page from Time magazine with an article about how old people have taken over facebook. The boomers are running a muck over there. (OLD people??? Boomers are OLD people now! Did you know that????)
Confession:
I have been on Facebook for a while. Originally, I think I did it to find out what the big deal was. Andy "friended" me, Jessie pity "friended" me and then un friended me (kids!). JC is now on there so I can be updated on my grandsons daily. Skylar just pretends I'm not there.
The amazing thing about Facebook though is this. In the past month I've connected with about 2/3rd of my high school graduating class and family I haven't seen in God knows how many years. It is so cool. We're planning a reunion and making a family tree.
It's one of those phenomenons... estrangement, detachment, the disappearing of family and friends. How does it happen? How do we let it happen? To the best of my knowledge, no one was angry with each other... we just all faded from each other's lives.
And now we have reconnected. My skinny bespectacled cousin that I use to hang out with every summer and trade secrets with. And his children. My roommates from senior year. And sophomore year. And junior year. People I haven't seen in 40 years.
We're older, and wrinkled, and grey (or not) and lie about how we look "just the same". We all look fabulous. We're alive and together again... how cool is that. So let the young kids move to Twitter (so don't understand that...) and leave Facebook for us "old people". We need it more any how, I've got family to find.
Later Gators!
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