I increasingly get e-mails from people asking me to join something called their “LinkedIn” network.<\/p>\n
And always, I politely decline.<\/p>\n
I don’t know about you, but I am busy enough as it is.<\/p>\n
If I have your e- mail address, and you have mine, and we know each other — we are already connected.<\/p>\n
Asking someone to take any further action seems, to me, a waste of their time — and yours.<\/p>\n
But then again, I am a Baby Boomer who finds all of this “social media” strange, alien, and absurd.<\/p>\n
I have never even seen YouTube and MySpace … don’t own an iPod, digital camera, Bluetooth, Blackberry, wireless laptop, or even a cell phone.<\/p>\n
Would those of you who are involved with all of the above explain to me — WHY?<\/p>\n
It just seems like an endless parade of electronic crap … pardon my French.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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