[BITList] SHOULD I JOIN FACEBOOK AFTER 60 ?????

[FA]

>     Should I Really Join Facebook?
>     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, my 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.
>     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 lose three phones all at once and
>     have to run around digging under chair cushions, 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 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 fart a lot."
>     P.S. I know some of you are not over 60. I sent it to you to allow
>     you to forward it to those who  are. I figured your sense of humor
>     could handle it.
>     We senior citizens don't need any more gadgets. The TV remote and
>     the garage door remote are about all we can handle.
>

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