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                                              or perennials? Red meat or fish?  babies and breakups and where  was reassured to hear that, since
                                              Kill weeds or save the bees?  the sirens were heading, sharing  no such photos were in existence,
                                              White or whole wheat?  Apple or  inside jokes, family pictures, and  he could put that fear to rest.
                                              Android?  Gas or electric? Kindle  silly videos. If you don’t hurry to      Now you’re on Facebook and
                                              or Kobo?  Laptop or tablet?  catch up with this merry-go-round              have gathered up a ragtag
                                              FaceTime or Zoom? Order ahead  quick, you’ll be on the outside              collection of “friends”.  You may
                                              and pick up, or suit up like a bank  looking in, clutching your library     not be ready to jump in and post
                                              robber, stand in line, and take your  card and your land line. Not that     something, but before long, you
                                              chances?  And so many choices  there’s anything wrong with that;            will come across a post, usually
                                              seem to be life or death!             but swimming in the modern and        in the form of a warning about
                                                                                    up-to-date mainstream does look       some inexplicable impending
                                              A choice from back when was
                                                                                    kind of fun.                          danger and your ‘friend’ demands
         By Janeen Wagemans                   MySpace or Facebook?  Facebook
                                                                                                                          that you “copy/paste this and put
                                              won that battle!   If you are not  So,  Facebook  it  is.  An  insistent
                                                                                                                          it on your timeline – or forward
        It’s hard to keep up with the  on  Facebook,  you  probably  feel  friend or relative signs you up,
                                                                                                                          to all your friends”.  They even
        latest trends - the world seems  like you’re out of just about  registers as your ‘friend’, and
                                                                                                                          include directions on how to get
        to be spinning at such a heady  every loop. Everyone seems to  then promptly leaves you alone
                                                                                                                          this accomplished.  The short
        pace! Paper or plastic?  Annuals  be in the know, sharing news of  to contend with it!   Before you
                                                                                                                          answer is, never do this. Even if
                                                                                    can catch your breath, people
                                                                                                                          they tell you that “for every share,
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                                                                                    age) pop up offering friendship!
                                                                                                                          “bad luck will befall you”. Stop
                                                                                    What to do?  For one thing, don’t
           Presents “Famous Sports Quotes”                                          be like my friend Shelley, who,       and think.   There is  no  medical
                                                                                                                          facility anywhere that will decide
                                                                                    when offered the friendship of a
         “The  vision  of a  champion  is  someone  who  is bent  over,             distinguished, happily married        whether to save a dying child
         drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one                  local elderly gent, assumed he        depending how many Facebook
         else is watching.”                             Anson Dorrance              was “hitting on her”.  She shared     likes and shares the wee, pathetic
                                                                                                                          child receives.  And sending a
                                                                                    her shock and dismay with many        virtual rose to ten wonderful
                                          SHUTTERS                                  and sundry, before a Facebook-        women will not alter your chances

                                                                                    savvy friend assured her that
                                                                                                                          for luck either way (but do not
                                                                                    Facebook friends are more
                                                                                                                          forget to send one back to me!).
                                                                                    casual acquaintances than leering
                                                     SAVE                           Lotharios.  You also need not  In fact, you don’t even have to stop

                                                                                    worry, as did my friend Scott, that  and think - just don’t copy/paste
                                                                      %
                                                                                    people might see photos of him  or forward anything. At all. Ever.
                                                  35                                naked on the Internet, as he had  And those naked photos?  Don’t

                                                                                    read in the paper as happening. He  worry.  Unless…


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