(# Main 3-0060), hung on my Grandma Golden's kitchen wall. Edith (née Cooper) lived in Denver's "West Side" in the red brick house, on the corner, at 1400 Raleigh street, one block west of the old Yeshiva and one block south of Tobin's Drug Store. Grandma had a metal folding chair that she parked beneath her phone...her lifeline to the news and gossip. Every morning, she'd sit down on that chair and call everyone in the family, one by one, to make sure they were okay and to find out what was new. She didn't usually talk long, a few minutes per person maybe, but she ran down the list of siblings, children, friends...and checked in. I've got that image etched in my memory.
Fast forward more than half a century. As soon as I wake up in the morning, I make my cup of coffee, sit down on the couch and I also check in on all my friends and family with my phone. However, it's not with a rotary wall phone anymore, it's with a cell phone! I don't call people either. I open my Facebook page...not in black & white, but in color! Yes, indeed, I now have the extremely pleasurable opportunity to see what's going on, not with just my short list of family and friends, but my REAL list of 329 "Friends", and find out what they're all up to.
For years, I use to cut out and collect articles from the newspaper that I thought were of interest and pass them out to my friends when we eventually got together. Now I just post them on my Facebook page.
THERE! Check THAT out!
Or, even better, I get to see all the wedding pictures and kids pictures that I NEVER would have gotten to see years ago. Who had the time or wherewithal to share pictures? One day you would know someone had a baby and then time would pass and you would get introduced to them as adults at some event. No more of that! Oh, no. Now I get to see all the babies & brides. Facebook is a a picture-fest and I LOVE it!! I get to read about everyone's adventures traveling all over Denver and the planet. I get to keep in touch with family members around the world. I get to share great jokes and laugh out loud in the wee hours of the morning, so my husband, half asleep, can ask, "What's so funny?".
Some people believe the internet is isolating.
Not true with Facebook. I love being in touch with all 329 of you and checking in every morning!
What would Grandma say to that?!
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