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Blogging for Boomers

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Real Estate Agent with RE/MAX United Real Estate

Is it me or is there a whole boatload of Rainers that belong to the Boomer gerneration?

I just happen to be floating around AR and just happend to notice that quite a lot of the folks with the gazillion points, # 1 in the geographic area and lots of "Featured" posts have photos that indicate, er, experience.

Doesn't this fly in the face of conventional wisdom?  I thought the whole blogging, social networking, Web 2.0 (and beyond) thing was supposed to be the exclusive turf of GenX and GenY as a way to keep the geezers at bay.  Geezer being a relative term here.

Yet I see tons of Boomers on AR and Facebook and, now, Twitter.  Doing the video thing. Where does it all stop!?

Aren't we all supposed to be "out of it" and on the way to retirement? Rockin' chair on the porch or cruises in the Caribbean?

 

Ernie Steele
Lebanon, PA

Ken...I think us geezers have embraced technology out of necessity and are using it in productive ways, not just for communication...Good post.

May 21, 2008 12:46 AM
Greg Hampton
Re/Max Around The Mountains - Blue Ridge, GA
North Georgia Mountain Property,Blue Rid

I am a broke geezer so I am being forced, kicking and screaming into all this IT stuff.

May 21, 2008 01:05 AM
Sally K. & David L. Hanson
EXP Realty 414-525-0563 - Brookfield, WI
WI Real Estate Agents - Luxury - Divorce

Age is a state of mind....and if you are in Real Es-state...you better join the techies or find another profession !

May 21, 2008 01:10 AM
Matthew Rosov
Amerisave Mortgage Corporation - Laurel, MD
Certified Mortgage Planning Specialist

Ain't it grand!  Though I wouldn't say we are all that old!

Congrats on 2nd spot!

May 21, 2008 01:21 AM
Karen Hurst
RICOASTALLIVING.COM - Warwick, RI
Rhode Island Waterfront!

Ha! This post will be a "geezer magnet'!  Nothing can keep us at bay! (except my boat:) I blog to boat er, enhance my status as a professional Real Estate Agent so that I can enjoy my boat and my husbands Harley!  I've been to the Caribbean and I will go there again. Don't know about the rest, but personally, the cost of living nowadays is tremendous. Most geezers "need" to work and many just "want" to.

May 21, 2008 01:39 AM
Marie Meyer
Keller Williams Realty - Central Valley, NY
Orange County New York Realtor

You just can't keep a good boomer down!  Geezer!!

May 21, 2008 01:47 AM
Patricia Kennedy
RLAH@properties - Washington, DC
Home in the Capital

Ken, there is a site called Boomer Cafe that a friend of mine, David Henderson, set up.  He is now 65 and is the techie type who helps me set up my stuff.  And he's even older than a boomer, though not at heart!

May 21, 2008 04:04 AM