I sometimes wonder if I will ever truly get up to speed with computers and every other form of technology. If I had a picture of me going cross eyed and pulling out my hair (luckily, I don't) I'd post it (if I could remember how) to illustrate how I feel most of the time when I sit in front of this screen. It has something to do with my age because all my friends (well those who know how to turn on their computers) feel the same way.
But teenagers (or anyone under 30 really) can't understand my frustrations. Their fingers fly over the keys(even if they are microscopic keys). They know short cuts, uploads, downloads, uplinks, weblinks, itunes, youtubes, facebook, myspace, inyourface, insync (oh, i think thats a music group), twitter, jitterbug, subwoofers, - scroll here, click that, hold down the shift/apple/return/delete/F10 key at once - it's so easy!!!!
And they - and all of you consistant bloggers out there - somehow fit all this technological knowhow into your day without even having to figure out how it works first or call the apple support people(over and over), or write post it notes of instructions to yourself, or heaven forbid look at an instruction manual! (do those things still exist?).
So I may never catch up and my blogs may be few and far between. But I do have another site that I can navigate quite easily. It's called myinnerspace. Those brilliant(or not) ideas that aren't making it to this Blog will all be there. If any of you would like to visit my new site and access my unblogged blogs just call me. I do know how to use the phone!
5 comments:
This was so funny! and cute and so well written. I swear you should write for a magazine. I can understand your frustrations with the technological generation. I love your "myinnerspace" You are great at the lost art of conversation. I think we have lost that in our text/blog/email generation. love ya!
You are cute. I generally feel a bit left out of the technological revolution myself-I still type with only my index fingers! You probably have me beat there! I do have iphoto down though-so call anytime!
But Marilyn, you are the only person I know that is over 30 that uses text messaging! You are light years ahead of my mom! Way to go!
If computers were just more intuitive...or would listen when you talked to them. Shouting sometimes works, but I shouldn't need to use words like "trash heap" or "I'll erase your brain" before they pay attention.
Marilyn, I'm so glad you're back to blogging! You do write so well. I can understand your technology frusterations... we all have that sometimes. But keep up the blogging you're doing great! I loved the pics of your family on the post below.
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