New English School in NYC
Julie was sitting in bed late at night
playing
with her brand-new smartphone. Earlier that week, she
had
been visited by her children and grandchildren to
celebrate
her 70th birthday, and had received the phone
as
a gift from her granddaughter Mary. Julie had
been
widowed for five years now. Since she lived
hours
away from the rest of the family, Mary
thought
the phone would be a good way for
them
to keep in touch and take up some
of
her time.
Up until then, Julie had never
really
been interested in catching up with modern technology,
but
finally owning her own smartphone made her feel
youthful
, and she decided to join Facebook since that
was
what she had noticed all the younger people
were
doing. However, when making her profile page, she
was
embarrassed to put up a picture of herself
since
she thought she looked much too wrinkly and
nobody
would want to talk to her. To remedy
this
, she downloaded a picture of a beautiful 20-something
year
old from Google, posted it under her name,
and
went to sleep.