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Elise Garber married the first boy she ever kissed. She met him at an Outward Bound-style summer-camp program when she was 15, she "sort of dated" him for the summer, and then, like most teenage romances, it ended. Twenty-two years later, they met again on Facebook...
...know why I looked him up," says the 37-year-old former advertising-agency executive in Chicago. Garber was showing a co-worker how Facebook works, and to demonstrate the search function - a feature that allows users to search for the names of people they know - she entered Harlan Robins, the name of the first boy she kissed. At the prodding of her co-worker, Garber sent Robins a message. And then she waited. Would he respond? Would he accept her friend request? Was it weird to contact an old summer-camp boyfriend? (See five Facebook no-nos for divorcing...
...Facebook users have begun to skew older - the website is now as popular with 30-, 40- and 50-somethings as with the college students who pioneered it - they have found ways to reconnect with one another. And who better to get in touch with than an old flame? "Facebook makes it easier for you to take that first step of finding someone again," explains Rainer Romero-Canyas, a psychology research scientist at Columbia University. "It has finally provided a way for people to reach out to someone without fear of rejection." The Boston Phoenix even coined a term, retrosexuals...
Consider when Zuckerberg rails at Eduardo L. Saverin '05, Facebook's original CFO, who in this scene has just frozen the company's bank account (and at the moment is mildly preoccupied with a matter of life-and-death...
Mostly we're disappointed because a movie about Facebook is a prime opportunity (one that you, Hollywood, have failed to seize) to comment on the zeitgeist of our times. Yet except for a scene in which a girlfriend demands to know why her boyfriend hasn’t changed his relationship status from “single,” The Social Network doesn’t even begin to capture the quirks and conventions of Facebook-saturated modern life. Perhaps that isn’t the story the script was trying to tell, but honestly, we think it would...