I’ve always been a little slow to adapt to technology. Why would I need the latest and greatest toys? The “old fashioned” way is good enough for me. And the cost is always prohibitive.
Once I get the new technology I quickly adapt. I enter a mode that questions how I ever lived without the object. It’s a pattern of mine.
When I was 14, and we moved to a new town, my dad gave us the option of cable television or internet. I wanted TV, my brother wanted internet. I was the one monopolizing the internet as soon as it was hooked up.
I didn’t get a cell phone until I was 20. The only reason I got it was that the plan included long distance to Canada for a fixed price. My mother and I are both gabby, so the cell phone was a price saver. Now I’m not sure how I ever got around to contacting friends and family only from home.
A couple years ago I started text messaging. I used to think: Why text message when I could just call people. Soon I was justifying the value of sending brief messages that one could read at their leisure.
Same concept with the GPS unit generously given to me by my parents for my birthday last year. A luxury item, until I needed it to navigate the back road of rural Virginia.
My latest fanciful purchase was a difficult one for my own internal justification. I got myself an Android based phone. It’s the closest phone to an iphone on my carrier’s network and the phone was free. The increased cost comes in the form of a data package that Verizon requires me to purchase.
I told myself that I could blog from the phone, that the phone would be more useful. I resolved to pack my lunch more often, to buy less junk. I wanted the phone that’s the truth. I hadn’t wanted to replace my old phone, but because it was broken why not upgrade.
Since I’ve plugged in the phone I’ve been nothing but enchanted. I can check my e-mail, facebook, twitter, the weather from anywhere. I know to most this would not be novel, but to me its fantastic. I tracked my calories eaten today on the Sparkpeople application. I wrote the draft to this blog post entirely on the phone.
How did I live without apps before? I’m sure someday it will be like living without the internet, without a cell phone.
How are you with technology? Are you a techology wizard or a technology holdout?
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I’m so glad you got it! It is amazing people ever survived without technology. LOL! I was curious what phone you would end up with.