Re: The Facebook Thing

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.