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.”
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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Hahahahaha jcb – my sentiments exactly! There are a few things in my house that I have no idea how they work except for on and off! Reading instructions is such a chore!!!! Great blog mate xox
I must read you blog again jcb..trueth is? i didnt understand it lol…never did live in the 21st century anway shout proves that hahaa. 🙂 xx
hahahaaa..loved this post…i have a cell phone my hubby insisted i get..i can barely answer it..i hang up alot on him…same with the cordless phone..i have call waiting..should call it call lost…and i forget to take my reusable grocery bags,too..lol…seems we’re all in this leaky boat called progress…lol
Hahahaha jcb, i am with you my friend xxx
Hahaha, jcb… thanks for the laughs. I must admit that I am technically challenged with some things. I remember the year my hubby gave me a fancy camera; it stayed in its box in a drawer for over a year until I finally learned to turn it on and off. Still don’t know all of the functions. My sister-in-law and I were just discussing this yesterday. LOL She received a Kindle Fire for Mother’s Day and it is still in its box.
I’ve had a good laugh about this. It seems to me we are the nescience generation. No idea of nothing. It will only take a little time until a robot will replace us. ups!
jcb i keep tryin to get you to join fb anyways lol!!! but loved this post..very good!! 🙂 😀
thanks you for all your comments i am pleased you all laughed and some can relate to it.
I agree. LOL and OMG. How much can we take? But we have a choice to be called an old F word, Fogie, i was thinking fogie:or we can huff and puff and try to keep up and fake it till we make it. I just started with smart phone and I may have made the wrong decision. My computer had just crashed and i had to get back on SC, FB, twitter and gmail, remember passwords, delete popup apps and allow 121 upgrades after I did factory restore recovery. No wonder that I took a day of rest today. As for the home phone, I got a new cable company and I have to call to set up a password and all that and i don’t think I will bother.When will it slow down or end?
i dont think it will rose. we have to get used to it. grin and bear it my old dad used to say hee hee!
Delightful and insightful! You nailed it all the way. I’ve been offline for a month because of a technical error on my ‘smart phone.’ Think I am ready to go back to tin cans and string. Love, Jackie xxx