My Dad Is On Facebook

I work in eMarketing, but for various and sundry reasons have resisted joining the behemoth social networking site Facebook until about two weeks ago. Sure, it was the privacy issues, ha. Imagine my surprise when I finally set up my account when I found that my Dad already had a Facebook page. OK, so he didn't have photos or a long profile posted, but he still beat me to the punch.

Some background here, first. My father is in his fifties and a branch manager for a hydraulic engineering firm. He does work for NASA and the military and loves computers, yet is very slow to embrace technology in his personal life in many respects. He carried a beeper (yes a beeper!) until LAST YEAR (2007), when his company finally forced him to carry a cell phone. I don't think he has ever actually used an ATM machine, as my mom takes care of all the finances. He didn't get call waiting until it was forced by the phone company when they moved to Florida in 1998. Here I am in my thirties, work in eMarketing for an IT company and Dad still beat me onto Facebook, which I find both hilarious and awesome.

Now that I'm finally using Facebook, I like it. Yes as the rest of the world already seems to know, it can be strangely addicting. So why have I avoided the social networks for personal use so long, even though I work in the industry? Maybe I am more like my Dad than I realized.