Facebook and other news...

Daniel warned about the busyness of life and the increasing expansion of
technology--but he never said anything about Facebook and twittering, let
alone the new iPhone! What is a 50 something to do?

I am fairly computer savvy, considering I am not visual. I have learned
sophisticated software for the visually impaired. Most of the world has to
find an icon and click, but I have had to learn the hot keys and computer
language. Pretty good--or so I thought untill now.

Lydia has been away on a mission's trip to Asia. On her trip the only way to
keep up with the reports and pictures was Facebook. Hey! I thought that was
only for the "young" social network! Plus, who has time to follow everyone
you once knew? I want new horizons and additional friends, thank you.
However, my passion has changed this week. I just want to see what is going
on with my daughter in a communist nation! So, now I am on Facebook.

The really strange thing was when I signed up, immediately it linked me to
my contact list where many of my "fifty something" friends were waiting for
me. "Why didn't you tell me that I would need it to follow my fifteen-year-old
daughter to the ends of the earth?!"

So, now what about twitter? Who has the time to read the texts, follow the
twitters,and Facebook everyone in your past, present and future with this
crazed social network? I am still e-mailing! Is that out of date already?

Ah, the phone is amazing--when our children answer it. Games, internet, GPS
instead of our atlas, restaurant guides, weather, traffic (no radio is
needed except for talk radio) and the news. Recipes, books, files, pictures
and more all within the touch of a lighted screen. What will be next?

My husband loves his new claim to fame as a techy. He has a blue tooth. It
looks to me like a man who is preparing to wear a hearing aid and is caught
talking to himself. And he wonders why I don't wear mine?! I am too
young--why then do I feel so out of it!?

I like to call my children--but they text. I like to meet new friends--in
person--and not by staying in my room Facebooking. I don't have the time to
see everyone's twitter of each moment of someone else's day. Who cares
really! I am busy. YES! Busy learning how to successfully find you on Facebook
as I learn how to twitter, while I work hard to earn enough money for
me to have an iPhone!

Daniel, did you even know about the computer when you wrote those words at:
www.daniel12:4.NKJV?