My kids have (so far, thankfully) been successful in their college careers, and one key element of their adolescence has been finding their peer group in high school and beyond. Our daughter is/was a performer, so she was a "drama kid". Our son found the ultimate frisbee team, and had a decent group of friends.

Also, be well rounded. If she is a geek girl, she should be sure to be physically active, eat well, and you know, blah blah blah..

Best to you in your future. All is well and will be so forever.

Stand back kids, I'm going to try mathematics!!!

Let's see, at $0.0014 per spin, I'm going to say... it's um.. hang on... and carry the 1, and... oh damn. Does anyone have an eraser?

OK, about 40% more than a tenth of a penny! Riches bitchez!!!

Sorry, I got nothin. You?

It's hard to convey the inherent creepiness of, for example, FB having an exceptionally accurate and deep digital fingerprint of everything you have done on their platform. FOREVER. All this info is essentially freely available to any FB friend/frenemy unless we go to lengths to avoid it.

So then... in the "future", some government or private entity will gain access to all of this information and use it for any purpose they wish.

People don't get that someday they may have something in their public profile that they don't want to be public anymore, and not just the pr0n they uploaded last week (but oh yeah, that too..).

"future" -- see also, "now"

Better misspelled in this case. Comedic license yo.

Productivity reduced, thanks!

Citation please.

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To be fair, I was studying the effects of a slouching posture on overall productivity and alertness, so... SCIENCE!!!

... but if you want to converse with your housekeeper, Spanish would be a good choice. Just sayin.

It's OK. I'm 50 now, so I don't care about what "they" think as much anymore.

I look at my peer group--the kids I would hang out with in high school, and a couple of them have committed suicide. Many of them are still single. As a group, by traditional standards (not that it means anything really), modern life has not treated us all that well. Anyway, we accept the past and move ahead..

Good luck and stuff,
d

This is sad. I hope you found your way into adulthood OK. I was a public school kid, and had a group of friends despite my marginal social skills. The only difference between your experience and public school is that there is a larger group of kids to excommunicate you and the cast of characters changes frequently.

We found through our own kids (trial and lucky error?) that they really have to find their "people", their social clique within and outside of school.

The growing up never ends..

But Dad, I turned 50 last year and I think I can make most of my dietary decisions now. I only fell for that cake trick the first few years anyway, dumbass. Come to think of it, I may consider moving out of the basement soon..

Dear Sir,
Please change your name at once or face prosecution.

Sincerely,
Richard

Ah, my work here is done!