<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Dec 18, 2010, at 7:43 PM, Richard Bronosky wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p>I don't know if anyone else is seeing the irony in this discussion. Insisting that people send you personal emails, dedicated phone calls, and visits to your home is narcissistic. The reason facebook is so popular is that people can make the events of their lives available to their friends and loved ones even when the event is not significant enough to warrant a phone call or email. I would feel like a narcissist if I emailed my contact list every time my daughter did some thing cute or I had a great new beer. But, with facebook (via twitter in my case) I just put it out there and the interested people can choose to get caught up with me when they please.</p><p>If you are refusing to use facebook and you have adult children that want you to use it, you are missing out if you don't. They will have dozens of times over the year where they wanted to share something with you but didn't because they couldn't take the time right then to craft the right words to make right how long it's been since they last spoke to you. I know that's not what you intend, but that is the position you are putting them in. The holidays are a great time to get over yourself. You'll have a better 2011 if you do.<br>
</p><div><br></div></blockquote><br></div><div><br></div><div>hear hear</div><div><br></div><br><div>
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