<p>I don't know if anyone else is seeing the irony in this discussion. Insisting that people send you personal emails, dedicated phone calls, and visits to your home is narcissistic. The reason facebook is so popular is that people can make the events of their lives available to their friends and loved ones even when the event is not significant enough to warrant a phone call or email. I would feel like a narcissist if I emailed my contact list every time my daughter did some thing cute or I had a great new beer. But, with facebook (via twitter in my case) I just put it out there and the interested people can choose to get caught up with me when they please.</p>
<p>If you are refusing to use facebook and you have adult children that want you to use it, you are missing out if you don't. They will have dozens of times over the year where they wanted to share something with you but didn't because they couldn't take the time right then to craft the right words to make right how long it's been since they last spoke to you. I know that's not what you intend, but that is the position you are putting them in. The holidays are a great time to get over yourself. You'll have a better 2011 if you do.<br>
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<p><blockquote type="cite">On Dec 18, 2010 11:55 AM, "Tom Freeman" <<a href="mailto:tfreeman@intel.digichem.net">tfreeman@intel.digichem.net</a>> wrote:<br><br>Ok. I'm the "old fart" (58). I've seen too much in the past 10-15 years of<br>
the next "greatest thing" to be much impressed one way or the other. And I will stand by my snide remark that I have yet to see material on facebook that I _really_ need to know about _NOW_. There are one or two things that<br>
have been worth finding out, but they have generally had a half-life on order of weeks. Other people have different experiences. If you need to<br>
push information to me, I have an answering machine on the phone, and<br>
my friends know that. Otherwise, drop by the house, bang on the door, and<br>
we can just plain gossip.<br>
<br>
I got a Facebook account to pickup grandchildren pictures which certain<br>
friends keep wanting to see. Sadly, the parents keep forgetting to post<br>
the grandchildren pictures. That molasses in January going up hill<br>
is going to make its appearance before I get something I want out of the<br>
system.<br>
<br>
Just as there are a few worthwhile movies being produced, there are a<br>
few worthwhile movies dating back to the era of the silents. I rather<br>
doubt that the percentage of production has changed much either, but I<br>
have never attempted to find that out for sure. Same concept applies<br>
to music, although I admit to prefering older popular music. My<br>
preference doesn't make it better in any way however.<br>
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FWIW, etc.<p><font color="#500050"><br><br>On Sat, 18 Dec 2010, Jim Philips wrote:<br><br>><br>><br>> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Michael Trausch <m...</font></p><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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