It's my 59th birthday next week and it occurs to me that many of my well-meaning friends and others who somehow managed to befriend me in Facebook, will wish me a happy birthday there. I haven't been on Facebook for over a year now. They're still looking at each other's dinner and booze, posting philosophies they don't live by and declaring very, very loudly that "If I can't handle them at their worst, I don't deserve them at their best" etc.