Technologically Challenged

This blog isn't going to have much to do with COM320 today. I simply need to vent.

Today my laptop quit working. The monitor went dark and fuzzy and I couldn't see much of anything that popped up. I tried to fix it, but to no avail. I had no idea what I was doing anyway.

A week and a half ago or so I got a new phone and I'm still having trouble using it. The keyboard is too small, there are too many options to scroll through, and when I want to text I end up going to the Internet every time. I'm still not sure why.

This whole blog thing is still pretty new to me as well. Don't get me wrong, I like it. It's just...new. I haven't quite caught on to navigating through the different blogs I have set up.

I guess to sum all of this up I would have to say that I am, sadly enough, extremely technologically challenged.

I wish I knew more about technology. Then maybe when things stopped working on me, I would have some sort of an inkling of how to handle it. As it is now, my solution is to stare blankly at the screen and hope that it fixes itself. (I do not recommend this solution; it tends not to work.) I am the dumbest member of this generation that I know of when it comes to technology. Like I said, I'm still trying to get used to my cell phone. I don't know how to navigate through the options and it took me two whole days to find the alarm clock. Very sad.

Knowing all of this, it makes me wonder...why do I bother? Why must I always deal with technology? I miss the good old days before cell phones and laptops. Before blogging and T9. Back when people talked more often face-to-face than through mediated forms. But I guess it's a must that we learn about and use technology nowadays. As much as I dislike it, I have no choice but to suck it up and deal with it. And it's only going to get more difficult for me as time passes. Everyday people are creating more technologies than I even care to know about. I'm just hoping I can catch up on the technological craze sometime. Hopefully soon. Very soon.


Katie Spalding