Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:32:28 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: FaceBook amusement
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> Tamar Lindsay <dicconf at yahoo.com> 6/22/2011 1:42 AM
>
>-- On Tue, 6/21/11, Michael Walsh <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
>wrote:
>
>> http://tinyurl.com/4xbhpcp
>
>As I vaguely understand it, it has for many years been
>quite standard behavior for Amish teens to experiment
>with living like the majority culture.

Indeed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumspringa

> The ones who
>come back to Amish living have made a free choice,
>knowing what they are choosing to give up.  Using
>cell phones and Facebook is just another facet of
>that normal, culturally accepted behavior.

The Amish make interesting "deals" with technology.  I will note that JHU =
Press published:

"Holding the Line: The Telephone in Old Order Mennonite and Amish Life"

Book details: http://tinyurl.com/5sy8v7w  (hiding not quite the longest =
url ever ...)

mjw