I find technology great when it works, and infuriating when it doesn,t. I has a gps, which used to bitch(I call her "bitchen Betty") until I turned the voice off.I always have a map or two just in case it leads me astray, which it has done at times.I must admit,I feel like belting the electronics with a hammer at times.It might not help, but it would definitely make me fell better........OH, for the simpler times, though I,m not 70, yet.Bill

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."

 

P.S. I know some of you are not over 70. I sent it to you to allow you to forward it to those who are.

......Not me I figured your sense of humor could handle it....

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

Gary, that happens to a lot of people 70 and over you just ask Dougwe, Duh & dazren they all know what its like being over 70.

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Not even 60 yet and all I want is a horse and cart.

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 No you don't because the horse will talk back to you, and in more ways than any spouse can. Speaking from experience years with horse here.

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SILICON VALLEY (The Borowitz Report) - A new social network is about to alter the playing field of the social media world, and it's called PhoneBook.

According to its creators, who invented the network in their dorm room at Berkeley, PhoneBook is the game-changer that will leave Facebook, Twitter and even the much anticipated Google Buzz in a cloud of dust.

"With PhoneBook, you have a book that has a list of all your friends in the city, plus everyone else who lives there," says Danny Fruber, one of PhoneBook's creators.

"When you want to chat with a friend, you look them up in PhoneBook, and find their unique PhoneBook number," Fruber explains. "Then you enter that number into your phone and it connects you directly to them."

Another breakout utility of PhoneBook allows the user to arrange face-to-face meetings with his or her friends at restaurants, bars, and other "places," as Fruber calls them.

"You will be sitting right across from your friend and seeing them in 3-D," he said. "It's like Skype, only without the headset."

PhoneBook will enable friends to play many games as well, such as charades, cards, and a game Fruber believes will be a breakout: Farm.

"In Farm, you have an actual farm where you raise real crops and livestock," he says. "It's hard work, but it's more fun than Mafia, where you actually get killed."

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............................ I don't have those horrible things "Facebook" and "Twitter" either ..................

 

 

Hey, did you see that a multi-billionaire media mogul has just bought U-Tube, Twitter and Facebook............

The new name of the combined services ............................... UTwitFace    

I guess some people see things differently than me. For a company that consistently makes a loss and has no real plan for changing that why are some people paying so much for it http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/twitter-ipo-investors-in-fine-feather-after-30bn-float-8927542.html