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Facebook: Where Memory Lane Became Just Another Street in my Town
May 7th, 2010 by admin
I had resisted all the social networking venues for a long time, and then the first one I tried was really not appealing to me. Then a colleague invited me to join Facebook. When I didn’t respond to her invitation, my friend pushed harder, then she insisted. Upon finally joining, I found it a clean, appealing site that I could navigate with relative ease. In a manner of days, I was startled to suddenly be friends with people I had not seen nor heard from since high school or college as well as others I had been in touch with but lost the contact. Of course, still others are people I work, worship, teach, or live amongst. For a couple of weeks I had the strangest feeling that my half century long, segmented life had caught up with itself ‘“ every ‘back then’ and ‘once upon a time’ became ‘now.’ A man I knew from third grade through senior year posted our grade school class pictures and suddenly the box of stuff in my closet where my copies of the pictures reside took on contemporary meaning, are there no limits to Facebook?. Now that Memory Lane is just another street in the town where I live today, my life feels, strangely, more whole.