Overheard at a gazillion kitchen tables last evening (yours, perhaps?):

Parent: “Do you ever see so-and-so?”

Child/Teen/Young Adult: “Oh, we’re friends on Facebook.”

Parent: “So do you ever talk?”

C/T/YA: “Nope.”

Parent: “Do you e-mail each other?”

C/T/YA: “Not really.”

Parent: “Get together?”

C/T/YA: “Um, not really.”

Parent: “Send up smoke signals? Communicate through metal telepathy?”

C/T/YA: “Very funny.”

Parent: "Wow, sounds like you guys are really close!"

C/T/YA: (silence as he puts his iPod headphones on and exits left)