[Fluffy]

who is seinfeld?

[kenberg]

OK, here is a real answer. Yesterday I got an invitation to join Facebook. I have received these before but ignored them. This was from someone who is also involved in a literacy project I participate in so I screwed up my courage and signed on.

Now I have to manage my links. My younger daughter is in touch with my ex-wife's husband's daughter. Somehow, unintentionally, this young lady (in her forties, young by the standards of this thread) is now on my friends list. I assume I somehow caused this to happen. In fact I like her but this is not a relationship I had planned on maintaining, it's structurally a little weird to my 1950s brain. Yes I get a kick out of "Modern Family" on the tv.

I am thinking of deleting her as a friend but it's not that I want to insult her. These new social norms are beyond my capacity.

I feel old.

[mycroft]

I have seen more Seinfeld parody (in fact, more Seinfeld parody on History Bites) than I have Seinfeld. For me, it is totally unfunny. Therefore, I am likely to not get obvious Seinfeld references...and I'm definitely old enough to get it (I just decided to emulate Jack Benny, in fact - yes, that's older than I am, but by the magic of Old Radio Shows...)

Now we'll see if *I'm* too old, by the reaction to the Obvious Reference (although I put in a reference to "thirty-seven eight by ten colour glossy pictures" in a ticket at work last week. Didn't get any reaction to that, either. And yes, that *also* is older than me, but still).

[ggwhiz]

I ran into a guy that had been playing pro on the tournament trail off and on for 25 years.

He said, "When I started, I was the youngest player in the room." Looked around and said, "I still am!"

Playing F2F bridge makes me feel old but we've found an antidote. Teaching 10 year olds to ruff and slough.

[jjbrr]

Jlall, on Feb 22 2010, 04:05 AM, said:

Read this on another forum (of people mostly my age or younger), but it is very true... I feel old when people around me don't laugh at my obvious Seinfeld references

In the other forum, remembering

this:

this:

and the brick:

were enough to make people feel old.

I'm happy to report I don't laugh at Seinfeld references.

Edit: But I still LOL at

[Jlall]

loled at the floppy disk and kimi gibler... good times.

In other news Stephanie Tanner ended up being a raging cokehead or something...go figure!

[Aberlour10]

tja, nowadays kids are not able to imagine that 10MB hard discs were standard at some point...

[Al_U_Card]

Don't forget the 10 inch floppies and guys huddled around a "green" monitor, late at night, playing "Life".

[jjbrr]

I recommend not Google Image searching 10 inch floppy.

[barmar]

kenberg, on Feb 22 2010, 07:53 AM, said:

OK, here is a real answer. Yesterday I got an invitation to join Facebook. I have received these before but ignored them. This was from someone who is also involved in a literacy project I participate in so I screwed up my courage and signed on.

Now I have to manage my links. My younger daughter is in touch with my ex-wife's husband's daughter. Somehow, unintentionally, this young lady (in her forties, young by the standards of this thread) is now on my friends list. I assume I somehow caused this to happen. In fact I like her but this is not a relationship I had planned on maintaining, it's structurally a little weird to my 1950s brain. Yes I get a kick out of "Modern Family" on the tv.

I am thinking of deleting her as a friend but it's not that I want to insult her. These new social norms are beyond my capacity.

I feel old.

I got a friend request sometime last year from someone who remembered me from high school. We obviously did know each other, because she'd signed my yearbook. But I don't think she was part of my regular clique, which kept in touch for a few years after we graduated, and even after seeing her picture in the book I couldn't for the life of me remember her. I responded that I didn't remember her, but she kept trying to give hints so that I would friend her.

Even if it did come back to me, why would I want to friend her after all these years? I don't know her, we have nothing in common except that 30 years ago we were in the high school band together. And Facebook in general seems like an incredible waste of web space, I couldn't care less what all these people I've known over the years are doing every minute of the day.

I was there at the birth of the Internet, and now I work for the company that makes Facebook work. But I still think it's a silly system.

[jdonn]

I like facebook, it's nice to reconnect with old friends and see where they are, what they are doing, how to contact them, etc. It's also a convenient place to see peoples' recent pictures. In a case like yours where I barely remember them or we weren't much friends to begin with I just reject the friend request, no big deal. They don't get a rejection notice anyway, they simply never see an acceptance and probably will never even notice.

[barmar]

Actually, in this case it wasn't a plain friend request, she sent me an email through facebook. I thought it would be rude to just delete it, so I replied saying I didn't remember her, and the rest was as I described.

[jdonn]

You made a big mistake, you responded

[kenberg]

Facebook has possibilities.

I mentioned that I had inadvertently added the daughter of my ex-wife's husband. Now that I am learinng how this works, I see what happened. It was not I but she who in fact initiated the request. I hadn't read the blurb from facebook, I just saw her name, and thought god, I screwed this up.

So I accepted. I thought I was inadvertently being an old geezer prowling about and asking about her but that wasn't the case. If she initiated the link, I am interested in how she is doing. It's been a while and, as I said, I like her.

My older daughter was stunned to find that I am now on facebook. For some reason she wasn't stunned when my wife joined it earlier. I need to think about that. Anyway, she tells me that she gets messages from people in high school that she cannot place at all. She ignores them. On the other hand she got re-connected with a very close friend of her childhood and they are now corresponding.

I am sure some judgment is needed, but what else is new?

[jjbrr]

kenberg, please promise all of us you won't ever sign up for any applications with "mafia" or "farm" in the title.

you can thank me later.

[cherdanno]

You can always remove people from your friend list - they don't get a notification, so most likely they won't ever notice.

[Rain]

When I fill in online "year" of birth stuff, and need to scroll down on the dropdown menu!

[Al_U_Card]

The first time a person younger than myself referred to me as "Sir".....

[luke warm]

Al_U_Card, on Feb 23 2010, 04:07 PM, said:

The first time a person younger than myself referred to me as "Sir".....

at least you can remember the first time

[Al_U_Card]

Knowing that, in time, even this will pass....