Introduction
Life on Facebook is full of surprises. In fact, I’m still surprised that I’m on Facebook at all, let alone writing a book about it.
I was not an early adopter of Facebook, to put it mildly. The truth is, I had to be dragged clicking and screaming into the ranks of its users. Like you—I’m guessing—I joined Facebook when I got an invite from someone I couldn’t say no to. Two such people, in fact, on the same afternoon.
In the fall of 2007, members of my old college speech team had started joining Facebook—a large, far-flung group of people I love and have had difficulty keeping in touch with in the two decades since I graduated from college. But within a month of joining Facebook, I felt like my old friends were back in my life. ...
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