~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~` Should I Really Join Facebook? (Priceless) The following is how one 'or more' of my acquaintances answers that question... A good laugh for people in the over 50 group !!! When I bought my Blackberry, I thought about the 30-year business I ran with 1800 employees, all without a cell phone that plays music, takes videos, pictures and communicates with Facebook and Twitter. I signed up under duress for Twitter and Facebook, so my seven kids, their spouses, 13 grand kids and 2 great grand kids could communicate with me in the modern way. I figured I could handle something as simple as Twitter with only 140 characters of space. That was before one of my grandkids hooked me up for Tweeter, Tweetree, Twhirl, Twitterfon,Tweetie and Twittererific Tweetdeck, Twitpix and something that sends every message to my cell phone and every other program within the texting World. ! My phone was beeping every three minutes with the details of everything except the bowel movements of the entire next generation. I am not ready to live like this. I keep my cell phone in the garage in my golf bag. The kids bought me a GPS for my last birthday because they say I get lost every now and then going over to the grocery store or library. I keep that in a box under my tool bench with the Blue tooth [it's red] phone I am supposed to use when I drive. I wore it once and was standing in line at Barnes and Noble talking to my wife and everyone in the nearest 50 yards was glaring at me. I had to take my hearing aid out to use it, and I got a little loud. I mean the GPS looked pretty smart on my dash board, but the lady inside that gadget was the most annoying, rudest person I had run into in a long time. Every 10 minutes, she would sarcastically say, "Re-calc-u-lating." You would think that she could be nicer. It was like she could barely tolerate me. She would let go with a deep sigh and then tell me to make a U-turn at the next light. Then if I made a right turn instead. Well, it was not a good relationship.. When I get really lost now, I call my wife and tell her the name of the cross streets and while she is starting to develop the same tone as Gypsy, the GPS lady, at least she loves me. To be perfectly frank, I am still trying to learn how to use the cordless phones in our house. We have had them for 4 years, but I still haven't figured out how I can lose three phones all at once and have to run around digging under chair cushions and checking bathrooms and the dirty laundry baskets when the phone rings. The world is just getting too complex for me. They even mess me up every time I go to the grocery store. You would think they could settle on something themselves but this sudden "Paper or Plastic?" every time I check out just knocks me for a loop. I bought some of those cloth reusable bags to avoid looking confused, but I never remember to take them in with me! Now I toss it back to them. When they ask me, "Paper or Plastic?" I just say, "Doesn't matter to me. I am bi-sacksual." Then it's their turn to stare at me with a blank look. I was recently asked if I tweet. I answered, No, but I do toot a lot." By the way, I know some of you are not over 50. I sent it to you to allow you to forward it to those who are. We senior citizens don't need anymore gadgets. The TV remote and the garage door remote are about all we can handle. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I know I'm a dinosaur as I don't tweet or twitter, don't use Facebook and haven't a clue how to text. We don't have a Sat. Nav. (I presume that's the same as GPS :-? ) We use old fashioned maps to find our way around and, although we both have mobile 'phones, we only use them in emergencies. I simply don't have time to keep up to date with all this technology as I'm too busy gardening and getting on with the more important things in life.
We recently got a little cordless phone, the kind you can put in your pocket and carry around, natter into it to make yourself look important, and generally annoy the populace. I keep it in the dining room, and if it rings, I answer if the number shown is familiar; if not, not. It does some other things, but I haven't had time nor inclination to find out what the other features are. And thanks, but no "apps"--hat sounds like a skin disease to me. Your friend has the right idea, Hank--technology is rampant, but we don't have to run with the herd!
Hank, this was priceless. Thanks for the laugh! The "bi-sacksual" phrase was the funniest, though! I tell my children I am "technologically illiterate, Sorry".
I do facebook but only as a way to keep up with what my boys are doing. I write a short note every night so they know what I am doing. We live miles apart and they have busy families so it's a shortcut to stay in touch. We still talk on the phone at times but living in different times zones makes that difficult, too. I have a cell phone but had to go get the neighbor kid to show me how it worked. Still am not comfortable with it. No GPS. Computer is for gardenstew. dooley
