Facebook is reputed to be the social networking tool of the young and hip, but most of the Facebook users I know are middle-aged like me. In Facebook, as in the rest of life, people of similar age and interests tend to clump together, and so it is that without much active effort I have accumulated a gaggle of Facebook friends in their 30's, 40's, and 50's, who are interested in books, our families, and assorted random goofiness.
Actually I have two Facebook pages-- a personal one and a professional one. I set up the professional page so I could start a Facebook group for teens interested in library events and updates.
I set up the personal page so I could throw sheep at my friends.
Seriously. Most of my Facebook friends--the ones who are actual, you know, FRIENDS, but also some of those who are friends mainly in that we have (here it goes, noun-into-verb alert, wait for it...wait for it...) FRIENDED each other on Facebook--anyway, most of those people who I connected with because our our deep interest in words, books, deep thoughts about life, etc.--well, mainly what we do on Facebook is throw sheep at each other, via a silly little Facebook application called SuperPoke.
I know, I know, you can do all kinds of useful things on Facebook, like sending out mass invitations and updates, and letting people know about your recent blog posts, and putting up photos of your family and friends, and all that cool stuff.
But really you can do much of that stuff via e-mail and blog posts and such, while there is no comparable substitute for a good sheep-throwing free-for-all. And when you get tired of throwing sheep, there are lots of variants, like sending flowers, tripping peole, and even seasonal options such as throwing pumpkin pies, throwing Santa, and throwing Hillary Clinton. It's fun, builds community, and is highly theraputic, too.
So, duck! (Baaaaaaaa!)
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