Number One Way to Freak Out Freshmen

So today, as part of introducing an assignment to my New Testament classes in which they are to design and create a webpage, blog, Facebook, or MySpace site capturing one of the gospels other than the one we're studying (Matthew), I happened to mention to my students I had Facebook myself (as well as two MySpaces, and a blog).

You would have thought I told them they had three minutes to memorize Revelation:

"YOU have Facebook?!"

"Why do YOU have Facebook?!"

"Aren't you, like, thirty, and too OLD to have Facebook?!"

"Have you been to (gasp!) MY Facebook page?!"

I explained to the students that, indeed, I had Facebook (and have for over two years), but the reason I hadn't invited any of them to be "friends" was because I didn't want them to think Mr. Dunham, their New Testament teacher, was a cyber-stalker. They laughed, but then some of them said they were going to invite me to be friends on Facebook...after they checked to see if I actually had an account, that is.