Should I Really Join a networking site like chatters twitter or facebook?!!!

A good laugh for people in the over 40 and 50 age groups!!! And up.!!!

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 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.”

We senior citizens don’t need anymore gadgets. The TV remote and the
garage door remote are about all we can handle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😀 😀

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  1. Read this before but enjoyed reading it again and I agree I have a very simple phone and don’t text on it and only turn it on when I go out. I know alot of people text but to text it cost extra to do that on my phone plan so figure if they want me they can just call and leave me a message or send me an email or call me on my house phone. Thought about getting an Apple iphone but when my grandson said I don’t think you could use it and after he showed me how to work it thought I would just keep the cell phone I have as the Iphone is not for me.

  2. I can use my computer pretty well, but I know virtually nothing about smart phones, ipods, ipads, or Kindles. I use my old cell phone only for calling and texting. So I guess I’m slightly more advanced than you are, pollie. That being said, I basically hate that technology has taken over, and especially dislike when people walk around talking on their phones all the time, as if nobody can get along without hearing from them! I could say more, but that’s enough, I’m tired…lol.