ME: The Internet is really a huge place!
YOU: Yeah, so.
I am not sure about you but being online is kind of daunting to me. I never seem to be able to find anything as compared to my friends who are always posting links and news stories. I Google but I am pretty sure it doesn't take me to the same cool places that my husband or friends get to. I am always like "How did you do that?" The girls at work are always finding the latest deals or the latest news or the latest hot spots. Then there is me over here in my corner and I am like "huh." I had to have my AV guy show me how to download the latest version of Windows Internet Browser this past week so I could get past some cookies. I still have no friggin clue what the heck a "cookie" is and why I wasn't getting past it.
I am slow to the technology world. I am definitely not one of those people who have to run out and get the latest iPhone or the latest new gadget by Apple like the rest of the world needs to. I spent all week watching people in my newsfeed complain about the inconvenience of trying to order the new iPhone online. Most were worried whether they get it on the first day it's available. Will the phone not work on the second or third days? Why the heck does one need it on the 1st day? Do you get super powers on the first day? I just don't get it.
It's not that I don't think the products are cool, which I do. It's just I guess I haven't had the need to have to have it and to have it now. I usually come to things a lot slower than other people. I held out on FACEBOOK. I didn't even know you could write reviews on YELP and I certainly couldn't see why TWITTER was necessary. Perhaps that is why I fell into the old school career of print advertising. I went to school for AV but somehow wound up doing print. Everyone is telling me print is dying. I guess I am the only one left who sees it as art. Anyhow, I guess that is me "Somewhat Old School."
Everyone around me at work is complaining about the company not getting us new phones and I am like I am just glad the company pays for my phone! So it's old? It's not like I care if someone sees me with a 4 year old phone. But its funny how much people do care about having the latest thing. So I don't have a camera. If I don't know what I am missing I don't miss it.
I must say though that once I embrace something I do take it on with full force. I refused for years to get a mobile phone and when I did I embraced it. I can't imagine life without my cell phone. But on the other hand I hardly use it to call people and I don't play games on it. I mainly use the thing to check emails and get on the Internet.
Then there is iTouch. I didn't understand why hubby had to had one. So he gets one and gradually I start to use it. Thinking it's pretty cool I decided to look into getting one. As luck would have it my girlfriend was getting rid of her iTouch because she was getting an iPhone so she gave me her iTouch (for free, score!). Now I can't live without that thing. I am still pretty sure I am not using that thing to its capacity but I do love it for the new possibilities it opened me up to (like ordering Chipolte from home).
Same applies to TWITTER. I joined this month and I still don't understand what exactly it does. I avoided it because for me, it feels like an extension of FACEBOOK and why do I need to have two programs to tell people how I feel? It wasn't until I saw that the hubby joined and was using it to follow food trucks that my interest peeked. Hum? So far I have only selected people, places or things to follow and have refrained from posting anything about me.
Two weeks ago I had a STAR TREK moment. A moment that told me that I was definitely in the technology future. I was at a conference call for work and just as we dialed the number 3 people pulled out their iPads to start taking notes. I couldn't help but think the future in the movies I watched as a kid is now the present. I am trying my best to stay connected with the ever changing connected world. Man, I wonder what life will be like in 10 years? When is the hoverboard coming out?
YOU: Yeah, so.
I am not sure about you but being online is kind of daunting to me. I never seem to be able to find anything as compared to my friends who are always posting links and news stories. I Google but I am pretty sure it doesn't take me to the same cool places that my husband or friends get to. I am always like "How did you do that?" The girls at work are always finding the latest deals or the latest news or the latest hot spots. Then there is me over here in my corner and I am like "huh." I had to have my AV guy show me how to download the latest version of Windows Internet Browser this past week so I could get past some cookies. I still have no friggin clue what the heck a "cookie" is and why I wasn't getting past it.
I am slow to the technology world. I am definitely not one of those people who have to run out and get the latest iPhone or the latest new gadget by Apple like the rest of the world needs to. I spent all week watching people in my newsfeed complain about the inconvenience of trying to order the new iPhone online. Most were worried whether they get it on the first day it's available. Will the phone not work on the second or third days? Why the heck does one need it on the 1st day? Do you get super powers on the first day? I just don't get it.
It's not that I don't think the products are cool, which I do. It's just I guess I haven't had the need to have to have it and to have it now. I usually come to things a lot slower than other people. I held out on FACEBOOK. I didn't even know you could write reviews on YELP and I certainly couldn't see why TWITTER was necessary. Perhaps that is why I fell into the old school career of print advertising. I went to school for AV but somehow wound up doing print. Everyone is telling me print is dying. I guess I am the only one left who sees it as art. Anyhow, I guess that is me "Somewhat Old School."
Everyone around me at work is complaining about the company not getting us new phones and I am like I am just glad the company pays for my phone! So it's old? It's not like I care if someone sees me with a 4 year old phone. But its funny how much people do care about having the latest thing. So I don't have a camera. If I don't know what I am missing I don't miss it.
I must say though that once I embrace something I do take it on with full force. I refused for years to get a mobile phone and when I did I embraced it. I can't imagine life without my cell phone. But on the other hand I hardly use it to call people and I don't play games on it. I mainly use the thing to check emails and get on the Internet.
Then there is iTouch. I didn't understand why hubby had to had one. So he gets one and gradually I start to use it. Thinking it's pretty cool I decided to look into getting one. As luck would have it my girlfriend was getting rid of her iTouch because she was getting an iPhone so she gave me her iTouch (for free, score!). Now I can't live without that thing. I am still pretty sure I am not using that thing to its capacity but I do love it for the new possibilities it opened me up to (like ordering Chipolte from home).
Same applies to TWITTER. I joined this month and I still don't understand what exactly it does. I avoided it because for me, it feels like an extension of FACEBOOK and why do I need to have two programs to tell people how I feel? It wasn't until I saw that the hubby joined and was using it to follow food trucks that my interest peeked. Hum? So far I have only selected people, places or things to follow and have refrained from posting anything about me.
Two weeks ago I had a STAR TREK moment. A moment that told me that I was definitely in the technology future. I was at a conference call for work and just as we dialed the number 3 people pulled out their iPads to start taking notes. I couldn't help but think the future in the movies I watched as a kid is now the present. I am trying my best to stay connected with the ever changing connected world. Man, I wonder what life will be like in 10 years? When is the hoverboard coming out?
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