Yes!! On the oil crisis. I'm hearing about it all over.
They're on Twitter, various relatively obscure websites -- maybe even on their Facebook and MySpace accounts! And, don't forget -- at worst all you have to do is Google!
Let's see how perple are reacting to this:
Interviewer -- Mr. Smith and older couple (Jane and John):
Interviewer: Are you aware that the government has put out their message about all the work they're doing with the oil crisis? On Twitter, on oil crisis websites?
John: What in the hell is a Twitter?
Jane: Honey, calm down. Maybe it's a special section in our newspaper. Mr. Smith, is that right? Are we getting a new Twitter section in our newspaper?
Mr. Smith: Heh, heh. No, no -- Twitter is a very popular way of communicating online. You do "tweets."
John: (showing increasing anger) Okay, what in the hell is a "tweet?" I have to talk like a bird? Online? On what line? We have to go up on the telephone line and tweet?
Jane: Mr. Smith, you'll have to excuse my husband. He's been upset ever since we started breathing in and getting ill from these oil fumes.
Mr. Smith: Oh, let me show you on your computer.
Jane: We don't have a computer.
Mr. Smith: You don't? We're making a very reasonable assumption that not only does everyone have a computer, but they know Twitter and how to do Google searches for the websites that show what we're doing.
John: Now, what in the hell is a "google"? Are you implying we dribble on ourselves?
Jane: Please watch your language, honey. Mr. Smith, what is a Google?
Mr. Smith: Oh, come now. You really don't know?
John: Read her lips, okay, buddy? She doesn't know.
Mr. Smith: (sweat glistening on his face) Well, thank you two very much for giving us the time to talk to you.