[BITList] Fwd: [BSAPAssn] Should I really Join Facebook?

[Michael Feltham]

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 Should I really Join Facebook?


 This really sums up my views!! Especially written for me 

Should I really join Facebook? (priceless) 
  
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." 
  
P.S. I know some of you are over 50 . 
I sent it to you to allow you to forward it... 
  
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