Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 08, 2009
November 07, 2009
November 09, 2009
Transcript:
Alex: "One of you has been way oversharing. She knows who she is." Hid, Dad. Almost ready to go. Just need a couple secs... I made the mistake of posting that you were here for parents weekend, which set off this friend whose father is very distant... so she starts oversharing on my wall. But I didn't respond right away, so she gets offended and posts an embarrassing shot of me from some 9th-grade party... which she tags, so then I have to hunt down the pic and strip it, but by then, her 949 friends are passing it around with comments, so I have to blog about it to explain what happened... but then it migrates to my MySpace page where I'd just finished curating my brand, so now I have to spend hours repositioning my presence! Dad, you make it sound like social media is running my life! It's not! Mike: Okay. Sorry.
I’m curious what the ages are of everyone who’s posted so far, I’m 52. Not a scientific note, but it would seem for the 10-30 year old’s social media is far more important than it is for me/us.
Kids can hang in their rooms, logged in for hours on school nights, keeping out of mom and dad’s hair. What was our distraction when we were growing up, television?