My thanks to Richard Turen for his words on "Facebore" [ Reality Check: "Facebore: Is it really for all of us?," Jan. 24].
Personally I have found social media a bit flabbergasting since, from an early age, my parents taught me to prize my persona and my self-esteem along with my privacy. Now, in the late winter of my life, I've found through my many years and a most successful business that these teachings have well stood the test of time.
I have never needed Facebore and never will, so I am not a member, whatever that may mean.
I find today's society and especially American society to be too shallow for my tastes, and Facebore seems to be a reflection of it.
I hate to be called by my first name by people I am talking to on the telephone whose face I've never seen, whom I've never met in person, who is just a voice that I may never hear again -- particularly in the business world. And no, I am not a hermit, nor do I live atop Mount Everest.
Mr. Turen, keep on writing your very commendable lines of wisdom.
J.E. Masson
Longwood, Fla.
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