Blog nr. 2

I told you I would be back!!!!
Since I created this "monster" I have had 3 followers sign up. Welcome aboard!

This rant will be about the Internet...

As with most inventions/progress/whatever, MAN (or woman) has a remarkable capacity to learn, advance, invent some tremendous things that we (and the next generations) will be able to enjoy, ease our existence, and learn from. Along with each "invention", unfortunately MAN will corrupt, despoil, and ruin for many of us the "benefits" of this advancement. The Internet should be used for learning, communicating with others, finding directions, and a multitude of other, what I consider "good things". Along with this good stuff, if you are so inclined you can learn how to build bombs to destroy/maim/kill innocents throughout the world. You can find hookers, various types of pornography. You can join subversive organizations that plot to destroy civilization as we know it. If you are into those things, KNOCK YOURSELF OUT. You make that choice!..As for me, I will try to learn computers (although at 70, learning is a slow, slow process), communicate with family/friends, keep up with world events and enjoy (vicariously) the goings on with those I am connected with electronically.
While on this subject, I have a few things about Facebook I feel a need to say. There are many applications that I think are funny-----the games people play (Farmville, etc), the lists such as "How Sexy do you feel today), so-and-so answered these 5 questions about you, etc.....you get my drift. Anyway, if you enjoy them, GOOD FOR YOU! I enjoy them by thinking "Wow, he/she must be awful bored, with nothing else to do". Not a knock on anyone, just a thought. And for the folks that send me articles, videos, jokes, etc....PLEASE keep them coming. I enjoy each and everyone of them. Mos of them, I learn from. But most of all, I learn more about YOU and that to me is rewarding.
I have used the Internet to connect with family members that I have never met. Cousins (both near and distant), nieces/nephews that I had never met. WOW!!! That is so cool!!! I have also tracked heritage of my family and found out some great things about my ancestors that emigrated here from Scotland, Ireland and Canada....to me, interesting stuff. What I have deduced from what I have learned (in a short time) is that there is a common bond of goodness within all of us. We are not all aligned politically, spiritually, geographically, but it is there.
My un-learned deduction is that all mankind is "connected" this way. Either that, or I am senile and full of ____!
Have a great day. God Bless You All. (and if that offends you, logoff and don't come back!)