technology sucks
I still don't get the hang of blogging. There should be a button to click on that says send and that should be it. I don't think I'm asking for too much because everyday they're coming out with avanced technology why aren't they making blogging any easier if it's so popular? My plan is to bypass the blogging scene-ignorance is bliss-and hope there is going to be so new phenomena by the time my kids are old enough to know how to use it and then they can show me. I don't know if age has anything to do with it, but I can't stand technology. The only reason I have a cell phone is in case my kids get sick at school. Other than that, what ever it is can wait until I get home. I only gave my number to a few people, because, as I stated earlier, I don't want bothered. My best friend, Laurie, however, is fascinated with her cell phone. I don't know how many voice messages and texts she left before my mailbox filled up and she asked me why I don't listen to my messages. I don't understand the purpose of leaving a message on a cell phone when I have a phone at home. I don't have time to screw around checking fifty different mailboxes everyday. If it's that important you'll get a hold of me. This leads me to texts. This has got to be the stupidest thing invented. Are you that lazy that you can't pick up the phone and call? Not only that If I want to press the letter c I have to press the button three times. Do I sound like Archie Bunker? Everywhere I look people are looking under their desks texting one another and it's annoying and rude. When I teach I'm going to blow a gasket at the first person to pull this trick because people have no idea how disrespectful technology has made them. THe whole time you're talking to them, they're texting down by their thigh, and don't even know how rude they are. Now on to driving with cell phones. I'm lucky I can drive and find a radio station at the same time let alone have a conversation wtih my mother. So now you've got some teenager who's only been driving for six months with three of her friends in the car, the radio's blaring and the driver's got a conversation going on her cell,"Brad asked me to the dance, but I want to go with Craig..." and trying to read a text from Josh at the same time. Do you want to be on the road with this clowncar? So far the farthest I've gotten technology wise is an MP3 player and that was a big jump-but I'm happy with it.Which is more than I can say for blogging
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"Do I sound like Archie Bunker?"
Not quite, but your frustration is heartfelt and candid. I'm sure that when my kids get older I'll spend more time on portable phones. But fancy phones, cable TV, and downloadable music are just don't have any appeal for me.
Seeing portable phones in the hands of people who are also driving cars makes me very nervous and annoyed. So there are some forms of technology that seem, to me, to be more trouble than they are worth. But if I had a motivation to learn to communicate with people using these forms, well, I'd probably do it, and I'd be glad that I'd developed a new skill.
At my old job, there was a form that came every two years, and the instructions on the form said you had to type out the answers. My answers were always the same as the year before, but I couldn't just check a box that said "no changes." Instead, I had to use a typewriter -- something I only did every to years, just to fill out that one stupid form.
As a kid, I typed short stories on a manual typewriter, but that was some technology that I was glad to leave behind.