who here has twitter/facebook etc type things................................?

[glenn123]

Yes, I'm on facebook. But for a Luddite like me, that's a big accomplishment. It's no big deal. It's like a giant phone book I can play games on; that's all. I appreciate it for the opportunity to contact a host of people I wouldn't normally see day to day; old school chums, relatives, former work colleagues, etc. But it does get old listening to people talk about nothing; what they had for lunch. I'm glad I got updated, I was starting to worry about your gastrointestinal habits!

But it's also sad that it's nothing like here. I try to talk about issues, ideas, solutions on there and get nothing but a lot of negativity back. I have to commend Y!A. It's worlds ahead of the juvenile level of fear and hatred and non-compliance I see on facebook. It's just unfortunate that the majority of my former classmates are staunch republicans. And I'm not. :] So I get to sit through endless posters of stupid things about gun laws not affecting criminals cause they don't follow laws, etc...blah, blah, blah. But try TALKING about it and all I get is fear and shutting down.

But they're my friends. So I just go back to playing games...and look for an opportunity to introduce discussion into the mix; gently as possible, of course.