You can tell that once-hip Facebook has been suborned by hordes of us middle-aged people. The most recent fad seems to be posting photos of "things that aren't here anymore" and asking your peers to identify them and reminisce fondly about them. Examples? Eight-track-cassettes. Foot pedals for headlight dimmer switches. Metal ice-cube trays. Roller skates with skate keys. The Charles Chips home-delivery truck. Back issues of newspapers on microfiche. Those little plastic jobbies you stuck in the donut hole of 45s like "Daydream Believer" so you could play them on the stereo.
Time for a shameless family plug: Facebook, as I'm sure you know, was founded by Mark Zuckerberg while he was a Harvard undergrad. My nephew Merrill, a rising Harvard sophomore, is following in his entrepreneurial footsteps by developing and marketing a startup company called Pollvaultr, which collects and analyzes point-of-sale survey information from consumers. Check it out online. Yes, that's him narrating the video!
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