Technology These Days

I used to think I was pretty good with technology and that I knew my way around a computer or other technologies but I was sadly mistaken. I’ve realized that over the years, I am so behind with the times.

I’m pretty sure I still used a Discman to workout with my freshman year of college. I saw people texting and thought that was the stupidest thing I’d ever heard of. I didn’t even own my own cell phone until Christmas after my freshman year. And then T9 was the extent of my fabulous texting. My junior year was when I first heard about Facebook and that became the stupidest thing I’d ever heard of. I was pretty anti-Facebook for the longest time and finally signed up just before I got married. Then I noticed a lot of people started blogging. I eventually started that too but as you can see, not very well.

Now Facebook seems to change every other week and its reach the point that I don’t even know how to use it. Blogs seem to reach a whole new standard that I just cannot keep up with. What the heck is Twitter about? I don’t get it. I don’t own an IPHONE and don’t really want one. I barely use the phone I have now. I have Skype but I’ve used it once and Remi had to give me step-by-step instructions on what to do. And the other day, my mother-in-law had to explain to me what Pininterest was.

I don’t know where I’ve been but I feel like I’ve been living under a rock. I remember thinking that in 2011 we would for sure have flying cars and our homes would be more like the Jetson’s. For all I know that’s how people are living these days. Well, I better go to the library and sign out a book about new technologies… I mean upload one onto an e-reader or something.