Friends Without Benefits

Every week, I am pleasantly surprised and filled with inexplicable nostalgia when FACEBOOK sends me a message reminding me of upcoming birthdays of friends, many of whom I haven’t seen or heard from in years. Usually, because it costs nothing to do it, I send these aging friends an e-greeting of one sort or another;…

14 June 2009: Hubris on Facebook

Trick or Twit?  Although I do Twit on occasion, I find that I have more than 140 characters in my life at any given moment in time.  Facebook is another matter altogether.  It assumes that there are people who are interested in everything I’m doing every single moment of what’s left of my life, and…