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Should I really join Facebook?

A good laugh for people in the over 50 group !!! Also for those who know people like us.

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 grandkids 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 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."

LMAO, ROTF!!! FB, Twitter, GPS, Cordless Phones, Blackberry, Bluetooth and Bisactual? WOW!!! Oops, Tootsalot too!

Keith

Originally Posted by blwn31

LMAO, ROTF!!! FB, Twitter, GPS, Cordless Phones, Blackberry, Bluetooth and Bisactual? WOW!!! Oops, Tootsalot too!

Keith

Haaaha..,I like it..
Gotta admit,I am on facebook,,dont go there very often..dont twitter,but know my share of twits..My GPS is a set of six map books that cover the country,and cost less than half of a GPS..got two cordless phones,,I think I know where they are..We eat blackberries,,I got a BLACK tooth..no comment on the bi sactual..[dont wanna bag anyone]Yeah,I AM over 50..

Robin.

Toooooooo funny!...CR

I'm on facebook to keep in touch with my family since I'm away from home so often with work.
I'm suprised how many people get angry at me when I refuse to make them my "friends" so I posted this:

Wow!!! I thought I was the only one who didn't see the "necessity" of cell phones and all those other gadgets!!!!

True story. One weekend last summer I had agreed to help a guy set his engine and trans into his Camaro--his garage, his tools. Got there about 9AM Saturday. By 9:30 he'd stopped to answer his phone 8 times.... I left, didn't seem we had the same priorities.........

This is good! Really funny. Thanks for the LOL

It sure is nice to know others feel much the same as I do about this constant need for keeping in touch. We do have a GPS, a cell phone and a Sansa mP3 as well as my wife's iPod. I have no clue where the cell phone is nor the mP3. The GPS is in the box it came in. My wife - plays games on the iPod. She also has a Facebook account that she visits --- 2-3X a year. I wont do the Facebook thing. Two years ago I was contacted to go to my JUNIOR high reunion. What!!! I haven't seen most of those people in over 40 years ...... and most I couldn't stand then. They also wanted my Facebook access so "we could stay in touch". Yeah - sure. A couple even sent me emails trying to get me to go to their shindig.

Several of my grandchildren showed up with their latest electronic gadgets - and of course I had to at least appear interested.

It's hell almost being a semi-Luddite

I carry a cell phone for emergency only, the last time I used it was to take a pic of a part number in the field..didn`t have pen with me, I can count on one hand how many times I`ve used it in the last year for actual calls, and that was only because the misses wanted it, and as far as face book...the last person that asked me about gave a look as if I was crazy not to have a face book account..and my wireless phones..we have five, half the time I can`t even find one, and you hit the frikking pager button to find them then the base unit is so loud you can`t hear the phones or their dead.....

I don't want the world to know what I'm doing 24/7 on facebook.
I have saw where crooks are using facebook to see when people are away from home and breaking into there house. if you want to be a crook just watch the news they will tell everyone how to do it.

Just an observation, but I think this "staying in touch" stuff has become very impersonal... Just an electronic note/pic broadcast to the entire world doesn't seem like any kind of personal contact at all....

I remember when it meant getting together with friends at someone's house to catch a game on TV, play some pinochle or other games, and just sit and visit, drink some coffee, and maybe have a bit of dessert (that someone actually made!!) Now I guess we're all just too busy or whatever that we don't have time for such frivilous activities and a text messge takes the place of a visit... Guess I'm just getting old, huh??

Face book and the others are like my inbox 90% useless and 10% meaningful!

That's funny. Someone's been following me around and making a joke about my electronic communications in-abilities. I try, but when I get tired of typing, re-typing, starting over and messing with texting, I just make a call, and leave a voice mail. Sometimes I get a response in kind, sometimes not. I guess if it is an emergency, I'll just do what we used to do before we had constant surveillance: DEAL WITH IT, sort out the details later..

Don't feel bad, you guys are not alone. I'm 32 and feel much the same way as you do.

I didn't have a cellphone until 2006.
I went offshore to work and the wife wanted me to call her everyday. So I turn the phone on and call her everyday for 15minutes. It's remarkably hard to find a phone that just makes phone calls. I can do text with mine which is cool for when I'm in the engine room at work as I couldn't hear anything anyway.

We got a TV here at the house (just for movies) this Xmas. The last time we owned one it was 1997.

Drew

Want to have a laugh, stop and use a pay phone notice the folks. The cell phone folks cannot stop looking, they are in total disbelief that someone would or could be so different, individual.

Sure I have a cell it is company owned, not working catch me at the house, cannot reach me at the house leave a message. I'll be back if I want to talk to you, I make that decision not you. Cell phone owners pay 100 bucks a month for the aggravation, that is a hoot and oh I forgot the special little fancy ring tones, wow real hip.