WHAT WOULD GRANDMA DO?

By now there are few people who don't use or rely on the Internet. We seem to have our lives encased in a world of cyber communication, one that defines us as never before! We have private email addresses, names on Facebook and we can instantly communicate with most people who are old enough to read and type out words, no matter how fast or slow they do it.

This is a far cry from Grandma's world, where the telephone and TV or radio kept her informed. Most information by the time she got it was or had transformed or morphed into something else, rendering her facts absolute.

Raising her children was a lot easier, she paid attention to where they were going or who they were seeing and she reacted accordingly. Today we face another monster, the chat rooms and Facebook pages that flood the Internet making for the possibility of meeting someone who could be in jail. Meeting strangers online is a hit or miss thing, there is no real proven science to it, no one can be assumed to be what they appear to be or even claim they are.

The idea that you can be instantly in touch with someone no matter where you are in the world makes it amazing, only because it is instantaneous complete, providing you use Facetime.

I can just imagine my grandmother arranging one of her trips to Italy or some upstate grotto, using the power of the Internet, she would be one powerful organizer. A few years ago, I organized a cruise for my classmates and myself, and while using the Internet to do a lot of work, remembered my grandmother and how the process was long, laborious and detailed. Grandma was amazing and if she had use of the Internet would have probably raised even more money for orphaned children.

Planning, communicating, sorting out names and payment along with Itinerary would have been done in her kitchen, near her stove and refrigerator. I know, that was where I used to hang out!