Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:42:41 -0500
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
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Subject: [WSFA] At What Age Will You Stop Using Facebook?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Excerpt:

In Joan Didion's essay on coming of age in New York City, she wrote:

     I remember once, one cold bright December evening in New York,
suggesting a friend who complained of having been around too long that
he come with me to a party where there would be, I assured him with
the bright resourcefulness of twenty-three, "new faces." He laughed
literally until he choked, and I had to roll down the taxi window and
hit him on the back. "New faces," he said finally, "don't tell me
about new faces." It seemed that the last time he had gone to a party
where he had been promised "new faces," there had been fifteen people
in the room, and he had already slept with five of the women and owed
money to all but two of the men. I laughed with him, but the first
snow had just begun to fall and the big Christmas trees glittered
yellow and white as far as I could see up Park Avenue and I had a new
dress and it would be a long while before I would come to understand
the particular moral of the story.

Years later, she was still attending the same parties, "all parties, bad
parties," and only looking back was she able to appreciate her mistake:
"You will have perceived by now that I was not one to profit by the
experience of others, that it was a very long time indeed before I
stopped believing in new faces and began to understand... that it is
distinctly possible to stay too long at the Fair."

Imagine 7 years spent living in a college dorm, or 15 years spent
attending the parties you went to in your twenties. Now imagine yourself
perusing a Facebook stream daily for a full 25 years.

Doesn't that just feel like too long?
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<http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/at-what-age-will-you-stop-using-facebook/267426/>

          mark, rotfl