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juajen

(8,515 posts)
8. Yep, I have been warning my children about this disconnect.
Wed Feb 26, 2014, 06:10 PM
Feb 2014

If you need emergency help, you cannot get it on Facebook, yet my children are all over Facebook, and texting, and have no time to talk to their widowed and elderly Mother. Also, if someone is breaking in your house, it helps to know your neighbors. I have to ask them all the time, to put up their phone and actually talk to me. The real problem is their disconnect to their country and what is going on because of it. Our electronics have become human sitters, that allow us to bury our heads in data.

I am all for progress, and I love to be in touch easily, but I know when to put it away. Kids will text walking down the street, driving, and I am wondering if they google how to have sex. Just sayin'. The next handy device will be a phone that turns into a vibrator, so you can have sex with your phone as you text, or not.

This is the only way the Rs can win OLDMDDEM Feb 2014 #1
I still think that we all should vote on a Saturday yeoman6987 Feb 2014 #2
voting on a Saturday OLDMDDEM Feb 2014 #3
No problem yeoman6987 Feb 2014 #4
States are moving to mail-in ballots. former9thward Feb 2014 #5
I think you're right. Laelth Feb 2014 #6
We are all guilty. former9thward Feb 2014 #7
Yep, I have been warning my children about this disconnect. juajen Feb 2014 #8
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