Megan McArdle

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Modern manners

15 Aug 2008 01:40 pm

IM from a friend in his thirties:

Of course, the downside of putting things on Facebook is that you have to be very careful, when you fake your way out of one obligation so you can do another, to ensure that no reference to the other thing appears where the faked-out friend can see it.

Welcome back to high school, thirtysomethings.

Comments (17)

oh no, you have to be HONEST...how juvenile!

Only if you are still in the high school habit of faking your way out of things.

Aaaaand that's why you don't let people tag you in pictures you didn't take

Joe Klein's conscience

Aaaaand that's why you don't let people tag you in pictures you didn't take

No, that's why you don't let people take pictures of you, period(When you go to bars and such .. or if you are dating multiple women).

Why is an adult using facebook at all? To stalk college girls?

Another illustration of the practicality of the virtue of honesty.

I agree with Vernunft. Why does anyone over the age of 25 have a facebook page?

I agree with Vernunft. Why does anyone over the age of 25 have a facebook page?

I dunno, maybe to get and keep in touch with your friends? Last month I met up with two good friends from high school that I hadn't seen in 12 or 13 years and one friend from college that I hadn't seen in 9 years.

Fair enough Rob. I guess it does have its uses. Sort of like puting your name in the phone book.

I keep in touch with friends from College and HS as well as my younger cousins who range from College freshman down to HS freshman, and each year another joins when they get to HS.

That I get to see how they are doing and talk to my cousins on a much more frequent basis as a huge benefit of the system. I have 2 dozen cousins on one side of my family, none older than 19, spread across 7 families. Facebook is by far the best method of keeping up to date on their lives between the once or twice a year I am in the area.

M. Bouffant (Cranky Old Bastid)

Can't you young people use your damn cell 'phones to keep up? Most of you don't seem to use them for anything these days besides finding each other at the mall.

We never had these problems on Prodigy.

One of my best friends from elementary school and junior high found me on Facebook... I am not on there too much but kind of use it as my general "find me on the internet" space.

Faking your way out of obligations = u r suxors.

Vernunft - better than being on Myspace, which is for stalking hig-school girls.

All requisite refusal to take it too seriously aside, I really do find Facebook a good tool for keeping track of people.

Have these people no experience in keeping things from their mothers?

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