• I'm banned from Facebook.  It makes no sense to me. I blame the snot nosed kid, who's richer than the entire assets of South Dakota, who invented Facebook, for kicking me off.
• This is how it went down.  The producer of our Boomer Babble Comedy Radio Show (Sunday's at 5pm on 570 WNAX) said we should be on Facebook.  He set up an account.  There are questions whether it was a commercial or social account.  One day I thought I'd check it out.  Unbelievably there were around 200 people who wanted to be friends or would consider being friends or could like to be friends, it was very confusing.  At the time, I was checking the Facebook account, I happened to be watching TV at the same time.  My wife has warned me about multitasking more than one social media at once.  I thought I should let these people be friends if they wanted to that badly.  So I started punching the friend button as fast as I could.  Again, while watching TV.  I had gone through about 100 would be friends when my entire computer screen lit up red and said I was scamming Facebook and I would be banned until further notice.
• I panicked.  What do we boomers do with a computer when we panic?  We shut it off and hope everything goes away. It didn't.  I couldn't get back on because I was banned.  The snot nosed kid was shunning me.
• It hasn't scarred or crippled me emotionally thankfully.  That's because I have real friends, not virtual ones.  Real, in the flesh friends.  And I don't have to post to them every time I sneeze.  We tell each other what we think each other can handle.  I don't have to put pictures or videos on the internet of me doing something incredibly stupid, then the next day try to remove it before it is on You Tube.  My friends already know I do incredibly stupid stuff and some of them are probably doing it with me.
• Grandparents who are on Facebook say they can keep up with the kids and grandkids.  If our kids and grandkids got off the computer and actually stopped and told us what they were doing, well it would be a better world.
• So shun me you snot nosed techies.  I will rise from the ashes like a Phoenix and embrace my real friends.  I live without knowledge that someone in the virtual village has changed husbands/wives/significant others or bought a kitten.
• Boomer Babble - "Thoughts at Large" are written by the Boomer Babble Guys, Charles Doug and John with occasional help from friends.  The Boomer Babble radio show is broadcast on WNAX 570 Sunday evenings at 5:00.  Visit us at BoomerBabble.com.
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