It’s a brave new world.

I now have a facebook. My own munchkins have had their own for quite a while, and I’ve had several students send me invitations to start one. So I did, sarcastically figuring it was just what I needed. One more thing to do. I knew I’d hate it.

I was wrong.

In the first couple of days, I had more than 100 former/current students contact me. Today, a little less than a week later, I have 146 “friends.” The upkeep is minimal, and being the anal retentitive person I am, I manage to check it a couple of times a day to see if anyone needs to “talk.” I’ve been able to catch up to students I spend so much time with who disappear every May on their way to the real world. I hand them diplomas, shake their hands, shed a few tears, and seldom hear from them again. I now have a way to know how they are doing, to assure myself that they’re happy. And on my birthday, I had forty-five individual greetings from people who care about me. I have never felt so loved in my whole life.

So I’m embracing technology, yet again. We’ll see where it takes me.