I'll spare you the suspense...the answer is yes. Life is supposed to move in a straight line. You're born, you lose your teeth, you get new ones, you get acne, survive high school, and so on. And when you leave high school, college, your 20s, and countless ex-girlfriends and acquaintances-of-circumstance, you are supposed to move on. You are supposed to leave them behind, wonder what ever became of them, and never, ever hear from them again. That's the way it used to be. And you could argue that it's the way it always should be.
But not anymore.
Facebook has taken every single time period of my life and crammed it into a silly, maddening, beautiful, incomprehensible web site. I am simultaneously conversing (online of course) with friends from kindergarten, grade school, high school, college, odd jobs, India, and across the street. Life is no longer linear. It's enough to make my head explode. But I can't stop. I just...can't...stop.
The fact that life is circling back on itself is not Facebook's fault, of course. It's the internet, which has been doing this for years now. Facebook just concentrates it into a fantastically small space.
