The beef family

摘要

I have a New Year's confession to make. I have finally succumbed to social media and started a Facebook account. My resistance was until now, I admit, slightly "Luddite-ish" (if there's such a word), as I felt I had no need to connect with family andfriends this way. I grew up in an era of letter-writing, so email and telephone conversations were good enough for me. What changed my mind? My kids, of course. Two of them live some distance away, and we don't see each other as often as we'd like. So, they opened a Facebook account for me to usher in 2013.