Is it weird when your mom is more "with it" than you are?

[brendala]

My mother (who up until a year ago couldn't even turn a computer on) has just set up a Facebook account to get in touch with some high school friends of hers (so far, she's reconnected with 4). Mom, my sister, and my friends keep telling me to get on it. But I just don't see the appeal. Though I may have to jump on the bandwagon soon because many of my real life friends have taken on the habit of announcing big news via facebook only.

Now I kinda feel like an old lady for thinking "why doesn't this generation just TALK to each other anymore?"

Oh well. :-P

Comments

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

I only got Facebook to keep track of old roommates, but aside from that I agree with you. I hate how no one seems to know how to talk anymore...and Facebook is a time-waster anyway because of all the applications and the like on there. And then you'll get the weird friend requests from people you don't even know.

I ought to just delete my Facebook account. I try to avoid the place as much as possible..

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

I use facebook to make sure I know who moves where. Never really use any of the other functions.

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

Facebook is good for propagating stories to all your friends until they all block you. Facebook is good for driving traffic to websites and it can be useful for planning events such as a rally, but it just downright sucks as a communication tool.

[tempestas-inu.livejournal.com]

If you haven't noticed, I've been perusing your LJ posts (sorry, am I being a weird bother?) and I've noticed that you and I are very similar in this stuff! I never had a Myspace, don't have a facebook, and honestly, I don't see myself having one in the near future. I don't even text my friends, unless something urgent I need updating on is going on and I or a friend is put in a situation where we really can't talk to each other (which has only happened like... once or twice). I just have no interest in that sort of stuff... I keep wondering if I'm just way behind my classmates or way ahead o_O.