So I’m on Facebook. And just like that, every friend I’ve ever had magically appeared. Amazingly, eerily, coincidentally, the majority of the people I grew up with all joined within the span of two months. It’s very much like the first time we all came home from college. We met at the old school football game. “Hey you got e-mail?” we said. The underclassmen said, “What’s that?” With a knowing smile, we exchanged our “.edu”s. And my friends from high school went back to college with me and lived in my dorm room…in my computer.
We moved around the country. Our addresses expired. The Internet exploded. The Internet told us again and again that it could reconnect us with our old friends. We were not very eager to believe the Internet. It had burned us before. We wouldn’t let it burn us again.
Then for various reasons---mine was different than my wife’s--- we joined Facebook. Then the seemingly omniscient Facebook showed us exactly where we might find our friends. And did Facebook ask for anything in return. Absolutely not.
And so my generation continues on into the future. We are the first of a kind. We move globally and are connected locally. The precedent is for us to set.
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