Poll: How Will Technology Affect your Thanksgiving?

By Tom Dunlap

Technology and the holidays ... seems like the bond grows stronger every year.

Take my neighborhood in Aptos, California. (Near Santa Cruz. Which is near San Jose.) Tonight we're doing a progressive dinner, where we get progressively hammered at five houses on the street, and where technology will have a seat at the table.

One of my neighbors will use her iPhone to post Facebook updates about the dinner, describing what each house is serving. At my house, our 13-year-old son will stay home and play Wii with a friend, maybe download some music, and attempt to hide when the progressive diners invade. (He was extremely disappointed this morning when we told him what we're serving tonight. "Get me the Betty Crocker cookbook," he said, with obligatory 13-year-old eye roll. He promptly flipped to his favorite page and pointed to the shrimp-wrapped-in-bacon picture.)

At the third house in the chow line, the teen and pre-teen daughters will probably fire up the latest versions of Rock Band and Halo, all while fielding texts and calls.

Which leads me to today's poll question, and feel free to post comments on other activities.

How will technology affect your Thanksgiving? How will you spend your time?

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