[frankbmd]

Rich,

I understand where you are coming from. Sort of.

I have a FB page but never post anything there. I have several younger family and friends however that continually post details of their life I don't need to know. The ex-wife of a former partner posting daily about her infatuation with her new beau. My step daughter posting weekly about her keeping up with the Jones materialistic life style in Southern California, etc. The negatives of Facebook outweigh the positives in my experience.

Then came texting. I am 65, my hands are big, I have neuropathy from chemotherapy and cannot feel a thing and cannot work with small tools. Texting is physically impossible. If someone wants to tell me something, they should not be afraid of the response, and just pick up the damn phone and call me.

Texting while driving at freeway speed is another problem, not for me, but for the guy or gal in the next lane who swerves into me while texting. I would hate to have texting be part of my obituary.

I opened a twitter account as well, but have yet to find anything worth tweeting, nor do I understand many of the tweets I have seen. I sincerely hope that no one is following me on twitter. I do however see the utility of twitter in organizing flashmobs and the like. Now that's progress. We've come a long way, Baby.

PM me if you want my phone number or email address. From my perspective Mr. Edison's inventions had more utility, although he was opposed initially to using the phonograph for music (True).