Okay what I wrote earlier in the day didn't quite tell the whole story. I have had a few good interactions using Facebook, but it's just that the whole thing can seem like hard work. There is a generational difference, I think, in the way we experience media.

Those raised in the last 30 years are more used to quick, varied, brisk interchanges by e-mail, text messages, and now Facebook. Boomers were used to a slower and (if I do say so) more reflective pace. Still older, pre-television, folks have an even slower, more reflective, way of communicating. (For example, when Ronald Reagan knew he was losing his mind with Alzheimer's, he wrote a handwritten letter to the American people.)

This is my off-the-cuff theory, in any case.

I will not abandon Facebook: I will soldier on, and maybe in time it will grow on me. Already I'm slightly more used to it.