Technology

[Rybcon]

Old or young sometimes today's technology is taken for granted. This morning I was doing the weekly food shopping. First of all, my shopping list is stored on my phone. Then, while I'm shopping, I'm texting with my sister in Missouri AND exchanging emails with Anna in POLAND!!!

Reminded me of my great-grandmother who moved from Texas to Illinois in a covered wagon in 1905 and then, visiting in 1972, came from Illinois to California in a Boeing 747.

[Sickie Ickie]

Technology is truly amazing, Ryb. I wonder what new things will be invented and common in the next 20 years?

[theedwin]

Try the next 2 years Sickie!

So far I refuse to get one of them new fangled phones. I spend too much time on the computer, much less if I had a computer on my phone. Maybe one of the reasons that I still keep and use a rotary dial phone here at the house. :D

It is truly amazing Ryb. Just the stuff that I have seen in my life compared to the employees at work....

[Rybcon]

I agree about the phone. I do have a Blackberry, but it's mainly to keep up with my email when I'm out of the office. Then last year I started to use texting as it was a great and inexpensive way to stay in touch with my sister in Missouri and my 10 nieces and nephews around the country.

I never use it for Internet access. Hell, I barely use it as a phone.

[theedwin]

The thing I hate about texting is that certain people will use it instead of calling. When I get text messages where they want to have an extended conversation it really really annoys me. 2 texts are fine, 3? Call me!

Thankfully I don't rely on email like you do Ryb - it is not a job requirement - until then I will keep using my cheapie cell phone. (I mostly get emails from sisters who send those stupid forward emails....) LOL

[Craig]

I have a cheap (and I DO mean cheap) cell phone. We use TracFone pay-as-you-go. Yeah it IS more expensive per minute than a regular cell phone, but neither of us are on the phone much (we deal with the phone so much at our jobs that we HATE talking on the phone!) Basically, we use the cells to keep in contact with each other and that is it.

Yeah I know, I sound like an old grandpa on this issue, heck, I AM old enough to be a grandpa!:):):)

[Rybcon]

I can get upwards of 75 to 100 emails a day.

(Okay, maybe, some of it might football related.)

[Sickie Ickie]

Remember yahoogroups? I was on some snake forums there and would receive about 300 e-mails a day. Got too much for me to keep up with.

[Just Whisper]

My 21 year old son was discussing this with me on our trip to Gainesville. He said he found it hard to imagine a life with no computers, video games, cell phones, etc. I was telling him about my first encounters with each new technology as they came out. I was always a foot dragger and did not understand new technology. I never started using it until it was old technology. LOL I also have no use in my life for a phone that does more than make phone calls and text. We use text when we need to contact our kids while they are at work or in class and can't take a phone call. Of course, the kids use it for extended conversations with friends. I still don't get that.think:

But you definitely start to appreciate what we have when the electricity goes out or the phone lines are down, etc.

[chris]

My wife likes to text not me I just can't keep up lol. I would love to just leave my cell phone
at home, but have to take for work.