life on the wand

Another archive photo. This is my son with an Internet acquaintence that he met in person for the first time while we were visiting Austin this summer. I guess the equivalent for my generation is meeting a pen pal for the first time, but it seems to me the big difference today is that the percentage of friends that are Internet-only friends is much greater than pen pal friends were in the past. Speaking to the parents of my son's friends they have admitted they have the same sense of uneasiness about this presumably new phenomenum. No bad experiences to report yet, though.

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