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I use Facebook everyday from my iPhone! I spend too much time on there actually. I have not been on a computer to use Facebook in over a year. One thing that troubles me is I have NEVER seen an add or a way for them to make a buck. Recently I have however seen a gift giving thing. My question though is who is sending gifts using Facebook? I use it to keep in touch with people, and share pics and videos and messaging. They have never received 1 cent from me nor will they ever. If I want to buy someone a gift I go to Walmart and buy them one. I just don't understand how this company is worth billions when it appears they spend more maintaining then taking in??

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Should I Really Join Facebook?

(for everyone, but the closer to 60 the better)

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, 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.

That was before one of my grandkids hooked me up for Tweeter, Tweetree, Twhirl, Twitterfon, Tweetie
and Twittererific Tweetdeck, Twitpix and something that sends every message to my cell phone and
every other program within the texting World.

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 can lose three phones all at once and have to run
around digging under chair cushions and 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."

P.S. I know some of you are not over 60. I sent it to you to allow you to forward it to those who are.
We senior citizens don't need anymore
gadgets. The TV remote and the garage door remote are about all we can handle.