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Title: Facebook encounters are better than none.(Oregon Life)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: March 15, 2009
Publisher: The Register Guard
Page: E37
Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
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Byline: LETTER FROM HARRISBURG By Dorcas Smucker For The Register-Guard
"Mom," he said, "you need to get on Facebook."
I laughed. Another one of Matt's crazy ideas. What little I knew of Facebook was relegated to that vast incomprehensible culture of youth, along with YouTube, Twitter, energy drinks, instant messaging and skinny hanks of hair hanging in girls' faces.
I love the young people in my life but avoid most of their passions. With great courage and many blunders I have learned to use a cell phone, send text messages and order a latte. I even started a blog after my husband's nephew, Byran, kept saying, "Aunt Dorcas, you need a blog," and that actually took...