Should I really join Facebook

[CelticGypsy]

A good laugh for people in the 50 to70 group !!! ( This is not me, I'm not that techy )

 

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."

We senior citizens don't need any more gadgets. The TV remote and the garage door remote are about all we can handle

[CelticGypsy]

See ?!?!? damn thing posted twice !!!! Mods please erase one, thank you. :pinch: :pinch: :pinch: :pinch:

[Mountain Witch]

You posted twice? Where? JK, sweetie. The duplicate post has been removed.

[emily]

Blimy,bit to close for comfort hahaa

[spinney]

CG, I cannot read a word of your post as P C kaput and have to do this from iPhone, but I do not lim being face books bitch! I would not recommend it xxxx

[Whiterose]

LOL!! I am the opposite. I sell electronics and cell phones. :)

[Cam]

LOL, CelticGypsy!!!

[Panis_Ramey]

I know what you mean about the GPS lady she can be a real bitch. I've even gotten into a few heated argument with her. especially when she tries to make me take some weird convoluted route when alI have to do is drive in a straight line. I sometimes like to give her an identity change going form a robot woman to an Australian man.

Edited March 30, 2013 by Panaceum

[Rustic]

My GPS is called MapMap. :cool_witch:

[Grymdycche]

I'm a techie by heart and trade (though old enough to remember milkmen), but I absolutely understand this sentiment. Facebook and Twitter (I don't even get the point of twitter anymore since most people use FB the same way) are so ridiculously abused. I really don't need to know that some girl I knew back in High School is now heading off for the gym, and again when she's back home. Every other day. Or to read the bait posts like, " I can't take this anymore" without any further elaboration. Drama much? Enough already.

 

There's currently a Sprint TV commercial where this dude says at the end, "I need to upload all of me".. Ewww.. seriously? That's the most douche bag- esque thing I think I've ever heard. Bad idea. People don't generally get that where social media is concerned, the product being sold is them.

A good chunk of the new generation seems to be turning into attention-whoring egomaniacs who can't stop talking all about themselves, uploading endless GPS tagged photos, et al .. and it will bite them in the ass when in the very near future they find they are stripped of all privacy (which they're freely giving away) and when their identity is stolen by hackers or data miners all too eager to get their hands on the flood of personal information being volunteered.

 

OTOH, technology is a great tool when used meaningfully. I have had my phone's GPS pull me out of a few tight spots before.