Well why not, I don’t think we should leave all the self promotion and aggrandizement to the young. Clearly technology belongs to them, just watch those arthritic free fingers and thumbs fly over the blackberries and i-phones sending endless texts, twitters, face book updates and blogs.
In all honesty the only bit that really appeals to me is the blogging and when all said and done what the older generation has to say can be just as asinine or just as perceptive as the new kids on the block, or blog!
Back when we were the new generation, I’m talking ‘bout my generation, we still had to put 4d in the slot and press button A to keep in contact, so things moved at a different pace and in a different place.
Meeting at the coffee bar, hanging out in particular locations, parks, street corners, OK so that hasn’t changed but we had to be “in the Know” or have pre-organised arrangements, there was no such thing as a mobile, many of us didn’t even have a house phone (landline) back then.
When friends moved more than a cycle or a bus ride away, even if one of you had parents with a phone it was expensive to use, sometimes you would set times to be a t a phone box, but 4d didn’t last long either, if you had 4d to spare! So we wrote letters I was a copious letter writer in my youth and continued to be so until phone contact became much easier and affordable but even then with some people letter writing was still the communication medium of choice.
So in essence that is why the decision was to blog, it is the nearest form to the free flowing hand written paper and pen outpouring of my younger days and although it is a keyboard, it exists in the ether and it has no one dedicated recipient it kinda feels like coming home!
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