Trapped in a virtual world

Facebook is OK - have SKYPE but not keen to use it*... Twitter is a PITA.

*I dislike the telephone anyway - the way it DEMANDS to be answered...

I like FB; if you keep your privacy settings tight there should be no problems. For just keeping in touch, it is invaluable. But you need to be very careful what you share, as you do with any public forum - including GN!

Having a son who lives in Canada, and friends who lived in Portugal, Skype is my lifeline to them. DW is addicted to Scrabble on her KIndle, and Google is a godsend when answering GCs homework questions. Is this the start of the slippery slope?, no there is always GN to stimulate the brain.

feetle what does PITA mean? I get paid to tweet, LOL. Money for old rope.

The phone does sort of demand to be answered, doesn't it? But I often manage to ignore mine. My kids drive me insane, they'll ring the landline and if I don't answer immediately, they'll ring my mobile straight away (which could be any where in the house, I don't carry it) and then if that is unanswered will ring their dad's mobile. So by the time the third phone rings, we always know it's one of the offspring. And then when they do get hold of me, sometimes my response to what they tell me is "I don't wanna know!"

To me a telephone ringing means either bad news or someone needing advice; and people only ever ring me on Saturday afternoon because they know I'm at home watching the racing [which I then miss ]. Emails and internet stuff mean you can read and reply in your own time. I did used to get im's from people once I'd logged on and I used to find them intrusive. Emails, to me have replaced letters and I love reading them.

Grannyknot PITA was new to me too but Google tells me that it stands for "pain in the arse". Could be a useful one to remember

Is there anything that Google hasn't got an answer for!?