Re: The Facebook Thing

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Ana: You missed one additional reason that older people have Facebook pages. Some of us–I’ll cop to it–are there trying to find out what’s on our kids’ pages. At least, that was my initial reason. But then I found out that I would have to actually impersonate a high schooler to infilitrate his group, and–well, that was just too creepy, even for me.

Plan B: I put in a request to become his “friend.” He turned me down. Sigh. I’m back to sneaking surreptitious looks over Swampkid’s shoulder when he’s on the computer.

UPDATE: Emily Yoffe at Slate added this perspective a while back.