I did not take the poll because I don't qualify with the age requirement  BUT! I did want to respond to your post.

First, you can sign-in automatically with Facebook!  Really?  I am wondering how many Mature American's use Facebook?  My wife refuses, but I was on it for a while.  About 10% of my high school schoolmates were on it, but that doesn't seem like a big portion to me.  Facebook seemed like another hot new idea for young people and not really something that was useful for our generation.  That may have just been my impression.  I was on Facebook to keep track of my adult children, who love to talk about their lives and spouses and vacations and pets and children there.  But it wasn't really for me.

Well we currently over 18,000 Facebook Fans on the AMAC Page you can see HERE. It may be more targeted for younger folks but the majority of us youngsters spend a lot of time on the computer so it makes sense BUT one of the fastest growing groups of Facebook users are people 50+. 

So, skipping the Facebook alliance, I note that there are several Posters commenting that this is their first on-line forum.  WONDERFUL!  That is what I would expect from Mature Americans.  Keep learning America!  Our children and our grandchildren do on-line collaboration all the time.  We're not behind, but we are still learning how to make real world use of some of the on-line technology.  That's how I see it, anyway.

I agree this is great, I prefer forums myself you get more of a tightknit group of people with deeper conversation, social media tends to be very quick and surface responses.

At least one of the moderators does not appear to be over 50!  I'm not going to call you out, however, you showed your lack of age in a post and we caught it.  Try to be patient with us and try to act a little older so that everyone doesn't catch on that you are a child (under 50!) 

I am not over 50, I am 27 and I am not trying to hide it, my birthdate is publically displayed on my profile Check It Out. Lack of age seems like my age is a negative thing. I am here to help everyone who is participaing regardless of their age or mine. 

Finally, I'm wondering how many of you Mature Americans are into the "hip" social media.  I think that we are not.  But maybe I'm not in touch with my own age group.  You heard above that I gave up on Facebook.  I have also given up on, or by-passed, Four Square, Digg, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and lots of other on-line technologies which don't seem to be very useful.  How about you?  What do you think of Facebook, Twitter, and the rest?  Are they valuable to you?  Are they valuable to Mature Americans?

I feel the value is situational I have friends who don't use it and some that use is obsessivly, personally I only use it to keep in touch with distant friends and relatives. Its interesting to see what people are up to but it also turns into another reason for a company to slap an advertisement infront of your face.

Thanks for the thoughtful reply, SteveT.

Soooo..you're telling me that I not the only one who feels this way. Dang. I thought I was a loner in my refusal to buy into all the new, changing daily, hi-tect rigamarol.

No, I don't use Facebook but am afraid that I might have to sign on sooner than later just to function effectively in some of the grassroots level political activity I have undertaken. Our county GOP now has a number of very capable young people who are trying to help us utliize the best of the latest techonologies for more effective communication and instant response needs. So far I have been able to keep in touch pretty good with just email but everytime I contact a legislator about a bill working it's way through the process I get reminded by some young staffer that I can get all the latest info faster by "following" the legislator on facebook. 

I  have to admit that some of the new stuff is nothing short of awe inspiring. At a Legislative Townhall meeting recently there was a question about the specific wording of a law and within a few minute at least three different attendees (all in their 20's I think) announced that they had the text of the law in question on their smart-phones. Dang show-offs.  

I'm with you, starfire!  Thanks for voting.

I used to be on fb. It can be a great tool in our society but I no longer enjoyed being on there. I call it FussBook now and do not miss it one bit. That seems to be what most of the people I knew on there were doing, fussing!

I love Facebook.  I can read great editorials, hear awesome music, get some giggles, and keep up with family and friends.  I check it first thing in the morning and before I go to bed at night.  People close to me know it's a reliable way to send me a message.  

I just joined this forum after seeing a sidebar about AMAC on Facebook. I didn't want to join through Facebook.

We have carefully selected our Friends and have unfriended 2 people who were viciously annoying. We usually do it for fun. I have posted lots of pictures from our missions and vacations, carefully edited, thank-you-very-much, and really enjoy pictures posted by our grandkids, neices, nephews, our kids, and our contemporaies. It's how we know what's going on with them, really.

I am also a member of an etiquette forum with rules similar to this one. I feel like they are friends now. A great majority of member are women.

We don't like Twitter or Tumbl'r, and I hate Pininterest - they are too messy. Others are not really of interest to me, but maybe if more ask us we'll think about it.

I'm looking forward to this. Relative anonymity if I choose and very civil, intelligent discussions about things I care about.