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I finally broke down and signed up for a Twitter account yesterday. I had plenty of reasons to not like Twitter.

1. Facebook status updates are better. I know it stole the idea from Twitter, but Facebook is just a cleaner interface with more features.
2. There are too many fake accounts posing as celebrities and sports stars.
3. Twitter has a very niche (geeky, trendy) way of communicating with each other.
4. Twitter servers are unreliable and sometimes down or slow.
5. No, I don't care what you ate for breakfast.
6. Twitter encouraged people to be emo.

So why did I finally give in and get an account? As a huge Patriots fan, most of the sports writers that I follow post live updates on Twitter. Instead of constantly revisiting websites in hopes that they would have updates from the latest practices, I could periodically visit my Twitter feeds and get a quick update from only the authors who I follow.

I feel like an old man desperately trying to still stay young and relevant. The whole Twitter universe is still foreign to me. I still don't understand why so many tweets are about Justin Bieber. Seriously, the dude is rocking a bowl haircut! Is everyone else blind? How come no one makes fun of him for that? If you look past the front swipe, it's still a bowl shape! I still remember the teasing in elementary school after my mom placed that pho bowl on my head (okay, maybe I made that last part up).

Back in my time, AIM was the cool thing. Everyone loved IM'ing each other. Then there was Myspace which was quickly replaced by Facebook. AIM became obsolete. No one IM's each other anymore. Everyone owns cell phones now so it's just easier to text each other.

Technology changes so fast. Hopefully I can still keep up. If not, well at least I know our little Daniel will be able to explain it to me one day.