I am completely uninterested in Facebook, twitter and all that came before. And I am old. But recently almost everyone around my age and younger has joined Fac

I am completely uninterested in Facebook, twitter and all that came before. And I am old. But recently almost everyone around my age and younger has joined Facebook/twitter/etc. And I keep waiting for this to end, for people to become bored with it, but it seems the world is moving away from face to face and voice communication. It seems everyone is moving to web based social interaction. I remember when only the biggest geeks at my university preferred on-line chat over face to face interaction. But that time, our old timer's time, seems to be passing. And social networking is now how people keep in touch, how they maintain a key element of their social sphere. And I've noticed it when even friends my age have organized things on facebook and then apologized to me since because I'm not on facebook, they briefly forgot I exist. Or I'd like to believe them, that's what really happened ;) I'm in no rush to join G+ (I keep typing "++"!) And if/when I do, I'll probably keep my circles very tight. But speaking as an old guy, the more time goes by the more I accept the reality that social networking is becoming part of our culture, just like the telephone once did. But I could do with a bit fewer news items about G+ per day. P.S. (I also get a lot of crap from my friends for not carrying a cell phone.)