What gave you that impression?
All I said was I don't get the facebook crap to begin with, maybe it is like drugs, your friends are doing heroin so you just have to too. It is like texting, I have a friends daughter who can't put her phone down when we come over there because everyone is texting someone in the clique crowd.
Nothing I do is because 'everyone else' is doing it - I've always preferred writing to phoning. It's better because a letter [or facebook] is something you do when you're in the mood, and you never get caught in the shower, or the middle of dinner, or a nap.
Maybe it is the fact that I feel snubbed - I didn't get invited to that "Wedding" so I am upset about that.
But I sure enjoy the photos - the kids crack me up.
Well see Cheri, I use it for something other than keeping in touch with others. It is a tool but not one for the family. I feel if some one has to use the Internet to 'reach out' to family members, then they are lazy. I have a sister-in-law who is aghast that my wife doesn't use her email to keep in contact with her (even though her husband works down the street and they live 30 miles away) and we (like Ragman) are old fashioned and like the human interaction between people so we have told everyone, if you want to talk to us, call us.
Lazy? When you've got dozens of cousins, phone calls are out of the question, lol. And I like keeping an eye on both my daughters' friends, too - I mean the ones they went to school with, that I don't see anymore.
If there is something to share, like photos of my last adventure across China in my little truck, then I post them either on my site or send them to my friends and family via email.
I have a LOT of family, and they're all busy with their own families - aunts, uncles, cousins I actually see maybe once a year, but I know how they're doing in the meantime.
I pay enough for my phone, so I expect people to call me. If I don't want to talk, I tell them - "don't want to talk right now" and tell them I will call them back.
See the other thing that I don't like is the need to give out personal info. Facebook and other things are too personal without being personal - you can't control the information yourself. You type something (like here) and it is forever somewhere in the great big world of the internet. Some people get carried away with this crap and then when something happens (like being robbed or hurt) to that person, they cry about it and make it out like they are victims. It is like I don't speak about what I own on an open forum as others do, just a bit but nothing like others who tell about their firearms and other stuff.
It requires common sense, but you have that, and those who don't make for some OMG! laughs, too.
That I agree with.
Wishful thinking - as my sigline points out.
Thanks Dale for the correction.