Monday, May 05, 2008

In Which I Give In

I have thrown in the towel and joined Facebook. I had to, for work reasons (and that really is true). I am taking the fact that the words I had to type to join were "Maurice daily" as some kind of positive sign that E.M. Forster and Samuel Pepys would have approved, or at least accepted. The apocalypse has arrived. (Speaking of the apocalypse, for more information, or non-information, alas, about the decimation of the bats, read this article. And we're not even paying attention to Indiana and North Carolina over here.)

Edited to add: Oh my goodness, everyone really is on Facebook. Though I restrained myself and did not friend K and D's kids or T's therapist! (Uh, the restraint was pretty easy, especially in the second case.)

5 comments:

Jenny Davidson said...

I just did too, Becca! I had it last year for a required work thing, and deactivated it, but finally also threw up my hands and LITERALLY (hmmm, do you feel we are creatures of the zeitgeist?) just turned it back on a few days ago. I am going to go and Friend you now!

jackie said...

You are the second person in the past three days who has capitulated to Facebook! Welcome, fellow sheep!

addy said...

I want to clarify that I only last week finally gave in as well. Ugh. Then I felt better about it when you wanted to be my friend. If Becca's doing it, surely it must be okay!

Libby said...

not friending other friends' kids* is the main rule for keeping facebook workable. That and, in my case at least, restricting my profile so it's not available to my students.

(That said, you could probably go ahead and friend my kid if you want to...she's a great scrabble player.)

landismom said...

Ahh, that explains it! I was wondering what had brought you over to the dark side...