Age Related Anti-Social Illness

Are you too old for social networking?   All my kids are concerned about when they say that we don't need a Facebook page is whether we look at their pages or not. There are specialized sites for boomers and the over fifty crowd, as well as one for tots. As friendships develop, certain comments or messages are only intended for certain people, so that kind of communication does not belong on a social networking site.  Perhaps the younger crowd does not realize that....  What IS too old, anyway?  They keep saying that age has slipped 10-15 years (like 70 is the old 60), so it must be all in our mind...

So Apple would like you to believe that they ARE creating location tracking information, but they are NOT EVER going to use it.  This isn't information that would ever be used to find your stolen spyPhone or spyPad since all you would need is their current location, not where they have been.  Why is it okay for devices to collect data (without the user's knowledge or consent)  and provide it to whomever pays ?

As an experiment in absurdity [and to prove that the vetting process for membership is flawed], we decided to get a email account for our chihuahua.  I first tried with Google and I was not successful.  Microsoft's Hotmail was simple.  The next step was to get Max a Facebook account.  I wanted this experiment to be relatively devoid of any links to us, as though Max was doing it independently.  I had to pick a last name for Max, that wasn't mine.  First I tried "Max Chihuahua", but Facebook balked.  I adjusted it to "Max Perro" and fudged a bit about his birthday, and Mr. Zuckerberg's prize software looked the other way, while Max got his own page. [This certainly doesn't appear to adequate to keep youngsters off, for sure.]  I added pictures, favorite movies (like "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" and "Legally Blond") and decided to poke my daughter to befriend Max.  An innocent gesture that got a not-unexpected response.  She opened a chat with me and complained about the absurdity, but wouldn't befriend him.  She didn't want her friends on Facebook to know that she had him for a friend.  Then, this morning, I went on to Facebook and looked at her page.  She wouldn't be Max's friend, but she complained about the friend-request to her Facebook friends!  [Why do I try to understand kids?]  I will continue to add "fluff" to Max's site to see if the information gets to the wrong places...

"Shouldn't there be some kind of relationship between how much a baby eats and how much comes out the other end? It's like at the circus, when they've got the tiny VW Bug but the clowns just keep coming out and out and out... Eventually you learn how to hold your breath like a Hokkaido pearl diver."
- Dennis Miller

10 Reasons You know you're addicted to Facebook

1. You relationship status is only official if its been updated on Facebook.

2. You check your Facebook account more then one time every hour.

3. You visit sites that list reasons you know your addicted to Facebook.

4. You take pictures for the sole reason of tagging them on Facebook.

5. You have several Facebook friends that you've never actually met in person.

6. You're one of the few people who actually use Facebook chat.

7. You find yourself saying things like "I will tag you in this photo" when you are out.

8. You tell (more like force) people to join Facebook.

9. You like to be poked and you like poking in return.

10. The world "poke" is no longer considered something physical to you.