“…My salad days, / When I was green in judgment, cold in blood…”

Six Reasons Why I’m Not On Facebook, By Wired UK’s Editor | Epicenter | Wired.com: “As the writer Jaron Lanier said in a recent lecture, if Robert Zimmerman, of small-town Hibbing, Minnesota, had had a Facebook profile, could he really have re-created himself as the New York beatnik Bob Dylan?”

Recreation and reinvention are two hallmarks of being an artist in America.

I do sometimes pause to think how in the world my 13 and 14 year old students will be able to reinvent themselves (if they so choose) when they decide to mark the twain?

Perhaps identity as we know it really is shifting dimensions under our feet or perhaps we’ve extended our artificial preservatives from food to an unhealthy view of static life starting at age 13 (when it’s legal to join Facebook)?

Are we trading our futures and freedoms of recreation in for short-lived neuron firing and more relevant ads?