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    Read it all the way through! It's a good laugh! AND really quite true!!

    A good laugh for people in the over 50 group !!!
    When I bought my Blackberry, I thought about the 30-year business I ran with1800 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 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.

    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."

    P.S. I know some of you are not over 50. I sent it to you to allow you to forward it to those who are.

    Us senior citizens don't need anymore gadgets. The tv remote and the garage door remote are about all we can handle.

    Wendy


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    Excellent.....and I wish I didn't have to admit that is very true, in my case[msnembarrased]
    I recently git an iphone4 and was delighted with myself....eldest son's reaction??? What do you want that for? You can't use the phone you have currently[msnscared]. I never admitted that it was free as an upgrade from O2 and he is probably right about me using all the features...but I do love having it and have just about mastered texting and bluetooth[]


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    Excellent
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    Unfortunately in my case this applies to the over-40's as well. I must be the most untechnical person my kids know (much to their embarressment). I facebook under sufference, do not have an iPhone, iPod or anything else that might require me to hand money over to purchase apps/androids or anything else that I won't know what to do with, and I still seem to be able to function in the world we live in. I miss letters and the telephone, and as for Tweeting - well I was under the impression that that was something to do with the dawn chorus!!

    Alison
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    Wonderful we are both in this age group and have just had a good laugh.


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    I do try to keep up with all the up todate gadgets .I am better than most in my age group, But I just about master a new gadget when they bring out a newer version, Now I have given up and accept defeat .

    Although my sixteen year old Granddaughter made my day when she said I was a cool Nan [msnwink]
    Barbara


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    I am certainly in that category. Yesterday my mobile phone rang out of credit and I had to come home and read the instruction booklet to find out how to top it up.
    Jill and Brian



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    Very good


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