I did my Christmas blog yesterday and I began a clean-up. So today I will finished it because in a month time it is my daughter's birthday; and after 9 years in computer never-never land it is time to be published.
Also next month we will gather as a small family gathering in Ste Jerome (20 minutes North of Montreal where their Mother lives today). These small reunions are often an opportunity to bring together our Children's kids with their grand kids, so we appreciate this opportunity as long as our health allows.
Also as I tell this story of her birth, so many years ago; it remainds me how much father lose as I see over the years the bond which exist between her and her mother. And ofcourse myself.
This blog written in February 2015 (below) shows how the history of Social Media is still the same as now in 2024 Facebook is repairing customer disatification of their services.
2015 BLOG was
"If I was to explain to you that my lifetime career and employments were with computers; ( computer room supervisor and later analyst) I ask you to not be surprised with this blog. I indicates clearly , by the blog's content that I know nothing about the new computer technology of today. Of course for the last 6 or 7 years I have been using my retirement time as President of a non-profit organization which allows for helping the poor and homeless.
As stated earlier, today is my daughter's birthday and I attempted to send her a gif, (a graphics image), with the small birthday message to her Facebook. First mistake was that with social media webpages like FaceBook, although offering a service; their business is more about and total commitment to advertising and collection of user data, which has become a big market for sales and advertising.
The next problem was that after I found the right gif and willing to share it; it would be then send to my Facebook page.But, now, if I attempted to change anything of the "Gif", I no longer was to connect to their website.
When I was living in Quebec and learning French my daughters spend a lot of hours and effort helping me to speak a good French. Their efforts were appreciated and necessary because as I was raised in the Maritimes where there is a lot of Salty Air; I was discovered to be Tone deaf to difference in French words. Of course a lot of swimming in the coastal beaches did not help. When working for the Federal government in Quebec the discovery that my inner ears were damaged by the Salt Air or swimming; prevented me from developing a fluent speaking French.
Due to being tone deaf, I discovered that I could not distinguish the sound between certain French words. For example, the french word for "farm" and the French word for "woman" sound a bit similar and I could not hear the unique sound difference; therefore could not reproduce it in speaking. So in the comment on her FaceBook birthday wish; I said maybe I should sit down with her and learn about Facebook and how to use it while remainding herof how my ability to learn french was due to here patience many years ago.
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At 73 I believe that I am using a computer, my tablet and the rather older style "iPhone" as well as anyone. I understand that using a computer to view Facebook does have more advantages then trying a Facebook app on a tablet or an iPhone. I understand that because of the size of the tablet or iPhone certain options will have been omitted. And certainly I did not think that the ads would be any left. I knew that using a tablet or iPhone instead of a computer meant a difficulty reading on a smaller device.
Since it is my daughter's birthday I'm doing this blog to maybe document her birth, as several family members follow this. Her mother waited with patience as she was a bit later than the announced arrival date. When it started, we drove to the hospital and into proper care without any Emergency interruptions. however once she was into a bed and induced labor induced by means of an IV the whole story of my daughter's birth started.
With doctor and nurse helping her and using a heart monitoring machine, we were listening to the baby heart. The doctor said that something was wrong as we became aware thateach effort to induce labor seem to stop the baby's heart. When I realized what was happening as the doctor explained why the heartbeat was stopping; I became extremely sick to my stomach and had to be walked by the nurse to the bathroom of the room. Left there,as the nurse returned to help the delivery, I was attempted to settle my stomach but the sound of my vomiting brought the nurse back. The nurse and Doctor should have been concerned and helping my wife with the delivery,but instead the nurse was spending a lot of the time with me.
Well it happened the doctor decided that they would rush my wife off to the operating room and do a cesarean. As I waited and worried, in the hall outside the operating theatre; I began to feel a bit better and within what seemed a few minutes the nurse came back with my daughter. There had been no cleanup; as our baby was taken from her mother and brought directly to me. As I look down at the blood covered my daughter; I was lost in my gaze and reactions, standing speachless
, However, as the nurse wiping some blood from the face and forehead so I could give her a kiss to the forehead; reality appeared. Every father should certainly experience this joy. I know it isn't the bonding that a mother mother has with her child but it was an incident which I will always remember and which laid the foundation of father and daughter love.
Both my daughters are wonderful ladies, girls and I am very proud of them. As I always work nights and often that shift ending to arrive home prior to the midnight feeding. ( both girls), I may have bonded as a father more than most.
The raison this blog is about Facebook is that as I attempted to send a birthday greeting to my daughter I commented on how when she was five or six she and her sister, both help me with my French. And, now I returning to my previous teacher with a suggestion that I should make a visit to learn about Facebook. Always appreciating how my daughters, even before their school started where helping me. For that raison I expected that they would follow in their grandmother's step. My wife's mother and sister were both teachers.