How Not to Act Old
185 Ways to Pass for Phat, Sick, Hot, Dope, Awesome, or at Least Not Totally Lame
Chapter One
Stop Using E-mail
Leave it to the evil young to get all of us old people
addicted to e-mail, and then to abandon the form in
favor of texting and Facebook. Like bikini waxing (more
on that later), e-mail is proving to be one of the Great
Age Divides. Old people can't figure out why anyone
would text, IM, or Facebook (wait: is that a verb?)
instead of e-mail; how can you be articulate while
typing with your thumbs? Why would you want everything
you say to be public? And young people hate e-mailing
because it's ... old. Well, I don't care if e-mail is
old; I can't stop using it. That's right, I'm addicted
to e-mail, just as I am to dark chocolate after lunch
and nitrous oxide at the dentist. I joined LinkedIn and
Facebook and all those other services, and now I don't
know what to do with them-or on them-or however you say
it. So if you want to get in touch with me, send me an
e-mail. Just make sure it doesn't look like this one:
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