I've said before that for people my age (I'm 44), Web 2.0 is a time machine. So it's nice to see that Newsweek has caught onto the idea (though why they had to title the article "Why Facebook Is for Old Fogies" is beyond me. Excuse me!).
- Facebook is about finding people you've lost track of. [This is so true. In fact, I found the article on a college classmate's Facebook page. We'd been out of touch for about 20 years before I friended her (though she insists she friended me first... yeah, right). Which just proves the article's point.]
- We're no longer bitter about high school. [How can I be bitter about it? I can hardly remember it.]
- We never get drunk at parties and get photographed holding beer bottles in suggestive positions. [Don't I wish....]
- Facebook isn't just a social network; it's a business network.
- We're lazy. [True that.]
- We're old enough that pictures from grade school or summer camp look nothing like us.
- We have children.
- We're too old to remember e-mail addresses. [But we're smart enough to know that we don't have to. Our address books sync with our iPhones, we import them into Gmail, etc.]
- We don't understand Twitter. [We do. We just think harder about using it.]
- We're not cool, and we don't care. [Well, that's a pose.]
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