Well, 0ur family has made a few leaps in technology. Jack has his own email address to practice reading and writing, and I put myself on "facebook"--mostly so I could keep up with the kids. I want to know what they are seeing and doing, so that I'm not in the dark as my kids are growing up. I want to be, not "cool" (although I am *so* much cooler online), but at least "in the know." It makes me crazy not to *know* what's going on.
Don't get me wrong. Sometimes, I really don't want to know. I always tell my students the immoral or the illegal. That is still true. But: I do want to know what technology I am up against. I need to know what "the wall" is. Although the old cliche about "writing on the wall" seems to work pretty well. Ha. I also want to know, and haven't been able to find out, what a "poke" is--but everyone I've asked is also not in the know. Must be a generation gap between me and the site. HA, ha.
John, he frowns on it. He definitely is anti-MySpace, anti-Facebook, anti-anything-where-people-forget-who-they-are-and-what-they-stand-for. Me... I'm curious about what's going on that I don't know about. Mostly, I want to know, just to know. I'm a writing voyeur. I read what others write, very rarely blogging or reading myself. I send and read thousands of email in a week--and all that communication is just as transitory as a phone call. It's really just here and gone. It's noise, not long-term-communication. Say something wrong, bad, ugly, or illicit: someone will remember. Blog about minutia, and no one even cares. I'm one of the minutiae writers. SIGH.
Was also Joan Crawford today, but taking points for getting dinner from Arby's and flouride from the pharmacy. Not Princess Diana, but also not wire hangers. I gotta come up with something in-between...
