Blackberry & Facebook

Well, I have finally arrived—almost: I upgraded my cell phone to a Blackberry AND I joined Facebook; all I have left is to figure out how to use both (I am old but I am doing the best I can, so be patient with me!).
This Blackberry thing is quite something! It is almost like walking around with your Desktop attached to your side (might even be better). Amazing. indeed! My Daddy would have loved this thing; He bought the first gadget ever to go on sale and everyone that followed, until his death. He carried a pager long after he had any reason to be paged; he just liked gadgets, and he kept hoping that he would get one more page (Now that I think about it, we probably should have put a pager in his casket, so we could have paged him from time to time; he would have liked that). I don’t think I am quite the gadget enthusiast that he was, as is evidenced by the fact that I wasn’t brave enough to get the new Storm (too hard to type on it), but I must admit that this thing is more-than-fascinating. Why, I’ll bet it signaled me ten times during last night that I had received an email! Most days I would have had to wait until morning to find that out, but not any longer! Imagine!
Now this Facebook thingy is really an incredible self-esteem lifter; it allows you to connect with other people who willingly identify themselves as your friend! Heck, I thought I had almost run out of friends, but either lots of folks are pretending, or I am rich in the friend department (which is probable the most valuable department!). Anyway, if you haven’t tried this gadget out, you should; I mean, you even get to see pictures of friends you haven’t seen in a long time (the names are included, so you will be able to recognize them!) and some of those you saw just yesterday, even some of friends you have never seen, e.g. Tamera and Kelly and John.
To add more amazing to the already amazing: my Blackberry came with this Facebook thingy already installed, which means that all during the night and day, I get sounds, aka “ringtones” or “vibrations”, alerting me to the fact that one of my friends is writing on my Facebook wall. Now, if that ain’t the stuff! I mean, this is wonderful, especially for those of us, who thought we had almost run out of friends! Why, I even have one friend who lives in California! Heck, I am now thinking about inviting all of my friends (which you can do on Facebook!) to a party in Hawaii or some such place. Now that I know I have them, I feel sure we would have a grand time!
And then I remember: God has always had a Blackberry (the Holy Spirit) and Facebook (justification comes with it installed), and one day soon, He is going to send a simultaneous message to all of His friends (already invited friends!) and it is going to say something like this: Your place is ready and the party is about to begin; so, come on Home!