Middle-aged behavior on Facebook

I've noticed that my middle-aged friends go through flurries of activity on Facebook: Hey, look at these pictures of my kids! Hey, I can actually walk after my knee replacement!

That sort of thing. Then ...

... not a Facebook entry from them for weeks.

They forget to log on. It's like Facebook never existed for them. Facebook? What's that?

Young people are different. They're constantly on Facebook, showing pictures, playing games, taking all sorts of quizzes and tests, wishing each other best of luck, moaning and groaning about sports events, commenting on what they had for dinner, and other Important Things Everybody Else Needs to Know.

To young people, Facebook is essential to their identity.

But in middle-aged behavior, Facebook is an occasional diversion -- a kind of half-hearted gasp at trying to keep up with the times -- the essentials of identity having already been formed in other ways.

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Yesterday, today, forever,
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All may change, but Jesus never!
Glory to His name!

Albert Simpson (1843–1919)