A relative is complaining that I unfriended her on Facebook because of her political opinions. I wonder if people realize how old I am and how unlikely it is that I would even know how to unfriend anybody on Facebook. Is that even the correct word?
Unfriending
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Why do you keep referring to yourself as “old” when you aren’t even 40 yet? Please.
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Right before writing this post I was preparing for my book club and reading how important humility is for academics if they want to be funded. So I tried doing some humility. As you can see, I’m clumsy at that. 🙂
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“Unfriend” is, indeed, the correct verb. But not knowing much about facebook is not a sign of age; facebook is now for old fogeys (or at least parent-of-teenager-and-above-age people). Basically, all the parents got online to keep tabs on their teenage offspring (or “spy,” from the teenagers’ perspective), then they started finding old college and high school friends, and reminiscing, and so on. Meanwhile, the teenagers turned twenty-somethings (the original target audience) wandered away to new forms of social media, and mostly return to facebook to post photos of their travels, weddings, engagements, etc. for their parents (and, now, grandparents) to see. It’s the same basic evolution that email has experienced: from cutting-edge to one of those oh-so-boring things that old people do.
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Ah, so my discomfort with Facebook is a sign that I’m not old. Great news!! 🙂
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