Wednesday, July 30, 2008


My father is on Facebook and it's making me really uncomfortable.  
I live in fear of the notification:

YOUR FATHER HAS SENT YOU A FRIEND REQUEST.

You have 0 friends in common.

Exactly.

It's not that there's anything on my page that's especially racy.  It's not that in real life we don't have a workable relationship.

This is a very specific sort of Baby Boomer/Gen X kind of dilemma/collision.  Can't we just share Bob Dylan?  

1 comment:

Susanna said...

My mother joined Facebook and then was scared off by how many 22 year old former students found her and attacked her. After I had to answer 40 questions about how one tags photos, she learned her lesson on her own, quick enough, and I didn't have to say a thing. ;)

Sharing Bob Dylan I cherish; sending each other holly plants for our green patches, I do not.