This is how I feel, too. It's actually a little genuinely uncomfortable sometimes, because I feel like in the past few years the pace of change in technology--and particularly social technology--has increased exponentially. And for a variety of reasons, I haven't really bothered to keep up on it, so where five years ago I felt pretty Internet-age savvy,* now... I honestly feel a bit like my parents felt back then. :/ I neither read nor use Twitter; I don't regularly read blogs; I get on Facebook maybe once every few months; I only just figured out what Tumblr is, and forget anything more recent than that; all I know about my phone is that I can call people on it and the service is Verizon; I couldn't define "smartphone" if I tried; I barely know what tablets and iPads are; I still think DVR is the most mind-blowing and magical thing in TV ever, and I get the feeling that by now it's been around, like, a looong time; and it's not that I hate ALL of those things or look down on people who use them, but... I don't even really want to get up to speed. And sometimes that makes me feel like, Man, I'm kind of going to get screwed by The Future, I'm going to be totally out of the loop, when did I become a Luddite?
Anyway. God, that whole paragraph is simultaneously so old-lady-yelling-at-youngters-from-front-porch AND so old-scifi "but what about when the computers become sentient and ENSLAVE US?" that it's embarrassing. But seriously, dude. I cannot adapt! Darwin would hate me!
(*remember back when some blogs weren't practically part of the mainstream media? remember when most people had no idea what fanfiction was? remember when only geeks wrote on the Internet about anything at all? remember when only "losers" looked for dates online? remember when YouTube was nothing but songvids? [exaggeration; I actually can't remember what was on it back then or even really when I first became aware of it.] remember when THERE WAS NO FACEBOOK? Not gonna lie, I had more fun back then.)
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Date: 2011-07-06 03:51 am (UTC)This is how I feel, too. It's actually a little genuinely uncomfortable sometimes, because I feel like in the past few years the pace of change in technology--and particularly social technology--has increased exponentially. And for a variety of reasons, I haven't really bothered to keep up on it, so where five years ago I felt pretty Internet-age savvy,* now... I honestly feel a bit like my parents felt back then. :/ I neither read nor use Twitter; I don't regularly read blogs; I get on Facebook maybe once every few months; I only just figured out what Tumblr is, and forget anything more recent than that; all I know about my phone is that I can call people on it and the service is Verizon; I couldn't define "smartphone" if I tried; I barely know what tablets and iPads are; I still think DVR is the most mind-blowing and magical thing in TV ever, and I get the feeling that by now it's been around, like, a looong time; and it's not that I hate ALL of those things or look down on people who use them, but... I don't even really want to get up to speed. And sometimes that makes me feel like, Man, I'm kind of going to get screwed by The Future, I'm going to be totally out of the loop, when did I become a Luddite?
Anyway. God, that whole paragraph is simultaneously so old-lady-yelling-at-youngters-from-front-porch AND so old-scifi "but what about when the computers become sentient and ENSLAVE US?" that it's embarrassing. But seriously, dude. I cannot adapt! Darwin would hate me!
(*remember back when some blogs weren't practically part of the mainstream media? remember when most people had no idea what fanfiction was? remember when only geeks wrote on the Internet about anything at all? remember when only "losers" looked for dates online? remember when YouTube was nothing but songvids? [exaggeration; I actually can't remember what was on it back then or even really when I first became aware of it.] remember when THERE WAS NO FACEBOOK? Not gonna lie, I had more fun back then.)