Yesterday, I ventured my opinion that I don’t find Chris Moyles funny, not remotely, slightly or in fact at all. Surely all intelligent people on the planet must agree? But my comment was met with derision and cries of “get with the kids”. Quite frankly I’m still mystified. Somebody please explain.

I’m equally mystified by the popularity of facebook. Today I tried to join for a second time and I am beginning to suspect I am the only person in Britain who doesn’t think facebook is user friendly.

The first time I tried to join many months ago I gave up after 2 minutes, it had 2 minutes to impress me and it didn’t. The more popular it got the more I resisted, but finally a mix of being enticed with tales of maps and movie quizzes, curiosity (what’s all the fuss about?) and in the spirit of professional research (I really ought to know about this in my work), I thought I’d try it.

Firstly, I tried to find my “country”. Most websites realise that the United Kingdom is a proper country so naturally I scrolled down the U’s. But in facebook you have to find “England”. For reasons which may be inexplicable to anyone who doesn’t have a 6 year old son obsessed with geography, this annoyed me.

Secondly, there was the American terminology, I didn’t go to high school or college, what are they talking about? Irritation levels rising.

And the final straw, the friend finding option, I can only find my friends if I am on the right email network or I can scroll through a list of very scary photographs where clearly people do not look anything like they do in real life. I must be doing it wrong but I don't have time to find out as my blood pressure is now way too high and I need a cup of tea to calm me down.

This time I really wanted to be impressed and tried hard for at least 10 minutes but I’m still not getting it.

I can practically hear the cries of derision and “get with the kids”… guess I’ll try again in 6 months. Again somebody please explain.