My Grandpa is On Facebook!

Last week an interesting thing occured: I received a friend request from my grandfather. Soon after I received an instant message from my cousin saying “dude grandpa joined facebook.” While my grandfather may be more hip than most grandfathers, it brings to light an interesting phenomenon: older generations are joining Facebook in droves.

Over the past few weeks I have been asking everyone that I come into contact with if they are on Facebook. The majority of them are and they aren’t the college students that once dominated the site.

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