Welcome to the website for the Warren Travis White 

High School Class of 1971, Dallas, Texas.      

Have you noticed who's on Facebook these days? It's not just your kids and their friends.

 It's you, Baby Boomer, and your friends ... and in growing numbers.

Five years ago, a Harvard University student created a social networking website known as Facebook. It quickly grew in popularity among college students across the world. Today it claims to have 150 million users.  

Baby Boomers, especially those between 55 and 59, account for the largest growing segment of Facebook users in the United States. The number of users aged 55 and older grew 514 per cent in the last six months alone.

A few months ago, my friend said she'd joined Facebook and suggested I'd be surprised at who I might find there.  She was right.  I found friends, relatives, and an easy way to keep up with them all. 

I'm not the only one.  Women over 55 are the fastest growing demographic. Yes, this is the same Facebook that started as an online haven for college students. As I told my nephew when I found him in Facebook, it's the invasion of the baby boomers. 

MySpace may be for younger generations but Facebook is an online social media gathering place embraced by baby boomers. Facebook is a place where people of our big generation are meeting up with old friends as well as staying in touch with family and our kids.

If you’re not on Facebook yet, this might be a great time to consider joining:   www.facebook.com

Once you get the hang of Facebook, please join our group: W.T. White High School Class of 1971.

Just a  few of the familiar faces you might see on Facebook are Rick Fisher, Sherri Sann Brown, Gwen Hanson Sanchez, Jo Moody, Jayo Washington, Kent Skinner, Frank Parks, Debbie Spaulding Blades, Susan Perrenot, Michael Wayne Walker, Spence Nelson, Rhonda Cunningham, Jane Johnston Adams …
         
          

As Lev Grossman writes in TIME online, Facebook is for old fogies, and he’s got ten reasons to back up that claim.

from TIME magazine…

Why Facebook is for Old Fogies

1. Facebook is about finding people you've lost track of.

2. We're no longer bitter about high school.

3. We never get drunk at parties and get photographed holding beer bottles in suggestive positions.

4. Facebook isn't just a social network; it's a business network.

5. We're lazy. We have jobs and children and houses and substance-abuse problems to deal with. At our age, we don't want to do anything. What we want is to hear about other people doing things and then judge them for it.

6. We're old enough that pictures from grade school or summer camp look nothing like us. These days, the only way to identify us is with Facebook tags.

7. We have children. There is very little that old people enjoy more than forcing others to pay attention to pictures of their children. Facebook is the most efficient engine ever devised for this.

8. We're too old to remember e-mail addresses. You have to understand: we have spent decades drinking diet soda out of aluminum cans. That stuff catches up with you. We can't remember friends' e-mail addresses. We can barely remember their names.

9. We don't understand Twitter. Literally. It makes no sense to us.

10. We're not cool, and we don't care. There was a time when it was cool to be on Facebook. That time has passed. Facebook now has 150 million members, and its fastest-growing demographic is 30 and up. At this point, it's way cooler not to be on Facebook. We've ruined it for good, just like we ruined Twilight and skateboarding.

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