The face of Facebook after age 40….

Jun.17, 2009 in Idiocy

I guess it goes without saying that growing old sucks. Some of the problems with aging also extend into the realm of social networking, one area you would think would be free from worries about male pattern baldness, late mortgage payments, and gray pubes. I wasn’t on Facebook very long before I realized that every friend I had collected could be neatly categorized into one of 10 or so archetypes. When I was a teenager, all my friends had interesting foibles and cute little idiosyncracies. Now that I’ve grown up, I realize that many of those same people are just whiny douchebags with some serious character flaws. Here’s a typical thread you might find on my Facebook page…