Like everyone else, I enjoy utilizing the technology for personal use. It never really mattered how much the technology had to offer, I would just use it for the basic designed purpose. For instance, my first cell phone was an upright, bulky, pre-paid, Erickson (guess that’s how you spell it) while everybody else was getting into the monthly contract flip phones. My friends would tease me and tell me to upgrade my phone. It didn’t matter, as long as I could make and receive calls, it didn’t what the other features offered. I didn’t even have a computer at home. When my children needed a computer for school that is when I branched out and brought a computer and made internet available. BOOM!! Now I’m an electronic technology junkie who talks on the cell, texts on the cell, chat with my children, surf the net for personal and education use, and complete homework all at the same time. I never would have figured I would become one of them, but here I am all strung out on technology. Yet the funny part is, there are more people who are more strung out than I am to the point where they do all of the above, but text on the new (is it called the) QWERTY cell phone designed for textting (is this the way it’s spelled?) quickly. I did, however, have my moment of withdrawal (see blog entitled Laptop Slave).
Anyway, technology is a wonderful thing, but I don’t think we should rely on it solely. Like everything else, it is destructible. We would – for the most part – be lost if technology fails. A prime example of this occurred when the millennium was approaching and everybody started becoming insane and obsessed with “the crash!” We should have enough sense not to place that much faith in something that can malfunction at any given moment.
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Hahaha, I agree- texting can be addicting!! I never used to text until a couple of months ago and now I prefer it to talking on the phone. It is easy and quick, and though I usually don’t text during class, it is useful for that too! I can text in areas such as the caf, where there is little reception, or the library, where you have to be quiet. I didn’t have a texting plan, but the charges forced me to get one. Now all I need is that qwerty keyboard……
LOL!! That’s true!! .15 or .20 cents a message can get expensive. I text, but my people laught because I spell out words and add punctuation….haha!!