AlfTheGreat wrote:
But there is a difference between loving it and talking about it ALL THE TIME.
True. Here's the deal: for "the youth" image it's no biggie. But you have to understand the difference in lifestyle between a younger and an older person. When you're say, high school or college aged, or even just post-college, you're surrounded by your friends and peers all the time. You're constantly texting, IM'ing, socializing, SEEING them and whatever elsing. When you get well into adulthood, it becomes about the daily grind, your job, your family, taking care of your kids, heavy responsibilities and squeezing in a social life and hanging with friends whenever you can (which ain't often).

Then FB comes along. I started flipping out when I began to find people I worked with 10 years ago and had lost touch with. Then I started finding college friends and I was just floored. Then, people from high school began to turn up, and I'm still reeling about that. It's surreal. I hadn't seen, heard from or knew where in this world my best friend from high school was for *counts* 21 years. I didn't even know how to find her because I didn't know her married name. Some of y'all here were newborns the last time she and I hung out image. You really can't describe what it's like to reconnect with people who were instrumental in your life and were then just gone. So for the fogies, FB is like a daily reunion. And honestly, it's a real kick for me to hear that Annie from when I was 14 is taking her sons to baseball practice, because I remember her as a skinny nerd with glasses and a virgin image. And now she's a lovely woman and big corporate raider with adolescent kids and is building a house and blah blah blah. It's unbelievable. I'm like really really happy to hear what's going on in these peoples' lives. Because I honestly don't have time to see them, we're scattered all over the country (the world in fact, my old dorm homegirl is in Germany with her two sons) and who knows when we'll have a chance to connect, if ever again. With FB, I've gathered over 25 years worth of people from various stages of my life all in one place, and it's pretty sweet.

In short, you'll see when you get older image.

/strange old person explanation image