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Chapter One
Stop Using E-mail
Leave it to the evil young to get all of us old Âpeople 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 Âpeople 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 serÂvices, and now I don't know what to do with themâor on themâor 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:
How Not to E-mail Old: 10 Musts to Avoid
July 12, 2009
Dear Pam,
Thank you for inviting me to your party.
Unfortunately, I will not be able to attend as I'll be having my false teeth fitted that day. My teeth had been bothering me for quite some time.
You know how it is when your gums start receding and then you crack a tooth or two chomping down on hard candy. Next thing you know you need a root canal, and then a crown, and then it's just a house of cards in there.
That's what happened to me, and so I found this dentist, Dr. Marino, out in Clifton, who said he'd pull them all out for just $4,000, which sounded like a bargain to me, so I told him...
So write back and tell me what's going on with you.
Your friend,
Don
www.donjenson.com
Excerpted from How Not to Act Old: 185 Ways to Pass for Phat, Sick, Hot, Dope, Awesome, or at Least Not Totally Lame by Pamela Redmond Satran
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