LOL, my original start-up post on this thread was merely a little dry-humor comedy relief aimed toward paranoia & conspiracy theories about FB & social networking on the "interwebs" (HAHAHA)...Didn't know it would create such a stir!
I'm an old semi computer literate dinosaur too, but had to catch up w/the real world a little bit. Went from not even knowing how to turn a computer on or off 5-10 yrs ago - now have a Droid X smart-phone as well (& know how to use maybe half of what's on it)!
I do txt a lot nowadays - interaction w/teens & the college-age crew has taught me that little trick - they never answer their phone, but they'll shoot back a txt in a NY millisecond! I have also found it actually werks great in daily business - with cut-to-the-chase time saving communications as well.
Being a minister, I have unapologetically become quite the FB social-networker, even though both my 20'something sons BRUTALLY make fun of me for it all the time - they say us old folks have hijacked FB & use it way more than we used to get onto them for!
Heck, I don't care what anybody says - I have caught up with old high school buddies, friends I lost touch with 10-20 yrs ago - manage to keep in contact with family I'm not lucky enough to live nearby, friends on the mission field overseas & inner-city teens all grown up now who we once invested yrs of our life in (& all FOR FREE I might add, instead of expensive long-distance phone conversations).
Don't twitter or myspace, don't even want to know about any anonymous formspring, & this is my only hunting forum involvement - but hey, ain't UPH a "social network"???

I ain't socially deprived for the experience (actually to the contrary, socially enriched) - I still find plenty face-to-face time with peeps much closer to home - and I still know how to turn it all off & disappear in the woods or out on the prairie whenever I don't want to be found! :cheers: