He rocks in the tree-top all a day long

Hoppin’ and a-boppin’ and a-singin’ the song

All the little birds on J-Bird St.

Love to hear the robin goin’ tweet tweet tweet

Rockin’ robin (tweet tweet tweet)
Rockin’ robin (tweet tweet tweet)
Oh rockin’ robin well you really gonna rock tonight

Rockin’ Robin by Bobbie Darin

Stephanolopulous and McCain may Twitter and Tweet, but my neo-Luddite family – which rocks, by the way – doesn’t Tweet. We do lots of high tech and low tech things. We still use email, however atavistic.  We debate, pontificate and philosophize. We blog. We text. We make poetry and short and long stories. One of us crafts . . . But no Twitter and Tweet. As far as I know, we’re all still reading books, not Kindle . . . and we do all actually still use the library and go to bookstores.

I’ll probably continue to pass on Facebook and LinkedIn too. Blogging is my “thing.” I love doing it, and I love visiting the blogs of others.  I think the WordPress folks are heroes. But, no . . . no Twitter and Tweet for me. I’ve actually started to use the phone more again these days.  I still enjoy one-on-one in-person conversation.  High tech is wonderful.  Wouldn’t want to be without it.  But high-touch is even better.  I think I’ll continue to keep up with family and friends and do my social networking the old fashioned way.

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