One of my favorite aspects of Facebook is being able to live vicariously through my younger cousins scattered around the world. Magnolia, for example, born and raised in New York, is currently attending U.Mass and just completed a stint studying abroad in Spain. I'm still trying to catch up to all the places she's visited just in the last five years of her life! And from what I've seen on the many videos posted on FB, Manny, her younger brother, has progressed to be a pretty kick-ass skater. Then there's my cousin Isabel in Toronto, Canada. The last time I saw her she was about three-years old, and I doubt she remembers meeting me. My relatives say that we look alike, "could be sisters." She always seems to have so much fun with her friends, and she has the cutest little daughter. I look forward to reconnecting with my fellow "whitey" cousin (there are only a few of us pale as snow in the family *wink*). My cousin Patricia in the Philippines kills me with her photos. She sends me links to new bands, posts videos of her own band for me to check out and comments on the live shows I say I'm attending via my status updates. Her passion and dedication to playing the drums is beyond anything I've set out to accomplish. What's funny is she's also friends with my other cousin, Miguel, who is also in a band, lives in the Philippines, but happens to be related to me through my other side of my family (my father's side).
In this version 1.2 of the Facebook Generation Gap, I'm the one who is ten-years senior than my cousins. We have some catching up to do before we can create synonyms established in Part: 1; but through the beauty of Facebook, I've become the ubiquitous "friend" watching them go through the motions of being 20-something or younger.
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