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The Irony of the Elderly Facebooker

We all will... Your eyes water in tearful rage as you look upon the highlights of your acquaintances' daily lives. Day in and day out, you have browsed through the collection of selfies, statuses that irritate you with their mindlessness, and ads for shirts that mysteriously have your last name on them. "If I receive one more invitation to Candy Crush, I'm going to go drown the first stray cat I find," you mumble to yourself, your eyes glassy as the very screen you have been looking at for the past two hours. Finally, you decide you have had enough. You vow to yourself that you shall "never Facebook again," and as you hover over that "Delete Account" button, you pause for a second. You wonder if cutting yourself off from the social media lifeline will be worth it. Then you think of that time your neighbor posted pictures of his cat's ear infection and you click the "ok".      The other day I was ruminating u...