Chance = Change

To the right is me in a supplicating posture, and I am gently intoning: "Save me, save me,save me,save me from my middle-aged Facebook addiction! I have become, in my middle years, a junkie for that online community that is peopled mostly by creative college students and enterprisingly youthful art folk, and I am happy to make daily discoveries - dare I say hourly?- every time I log onto my account: I have reconnected with old friends, giggled at the various Applications that have allowed me to sling chickens at acquaintances, send calorie-less sticky pastries that don't cost a cent, since they are virtual, and chat with pals at Happy Hours that are also virtual, as are the alcoholic concoctions purchased with imaginary money! I fly through the air with Harry potter spells, (I was assigned, after a swell test, to Gryffindor), I plant imaginary flowers sent to me by people who know I love gardening (Steve C. sent me a garden gnome,even), and I am a total chump for browsing new Applications....i tell you: I am a Facebook addict! AND I now have 114 "friends" who acknowledge me as theirs, and I am on a constant search for more! So, if you want to be my Facebook friend, please please please send me an invitation and I am yours.....Am I not pathetic? Actually, it is amazing, this Facebook thing...and it is also the reason you've not read a fresh blog entry in a while....I have spent all free time on Facebook....sad but truer than true. SO: JOIN FACEBOOK and be mine!
Sure, i know, I know :"they" are tracking my every commercial whim and making me part of all future marketing schemes...THEY rule my life....but I dunno....somehow this makes it fun not to care! It all seems so harmless...and there is this thing about connecting across the years and miles...talk about making it a smaller world...Time shifts and becomes pliable in the realm of Facebook.....and I have many more philosophic thoughts on this subject, but alas, I must get ready for my next student, and ....yes I want to check my Facebook account! Bye for now....Virtually yours: EB