If You’re Under 80, It’s Time to Join Twitter!

If You’re Under 80, It’s Time to Join Twitter! By Samantha Weatherford “Last call for Sunday dinner. If I don’t hear from you via Facebook or phone by 11 a.m. tomorrow, I’ll take that as a no.” That’s a direct quote from my Grandma. On Facebook.       My Grandma, Dee, is 76. She unplugs the computer when it freezes up. (Dee, seriously, stop that.) She always thinks someone is hacking her account. She doesn’t want a phone with a camera. And she is one of my most favorite humans on Earth.      She Facebooks. She “likes,” comments, posts, tags, shares, LOLs, calls my mom her BFF (best friend forever). She is a Facebook machine. A champion of Facebook, if you will.      She is 76. She uses Facebook. Did I mention she’s 76?    When I attended the American Speech-Language Hearing Association’s convention in November 2011, ASHA-goers (all of whom are younger than my grandmother) who noticed my “I Tweet” sticker had various reactions:      • Camaraderie: “You tweet? Me, too! What’s your handle?”      • Judgment: “Oh. You tweet.” (Accompanied by “the face.”)      • Awe: “You tweet? Coooool!”      • Confusion: “You tweet? What’s a tweet? Have I been twitting and didn’t know it?”       But they, and you, can tweet! It is not so hard! I promise.       When I got on Facebook in 2006, it was about collecting friends, like Pogs or Pokemon (gotta catch ’em all!). Who has the most friend...
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