I left my phone at home today.
I feel like I would be just as uneasy if I had left my right arm there as well. I don't even have a fancy phone. The coolest thing my phone can do is play music from the speaker on the side of it. And really, I am going to be at work... at a computer and by a land line phone... so really, I have no reason to be uneasy, but it has become such a part of me, that it feels wrong not to have it. I mean what if one of my friends sends me a hilarious text and I don't get to see it until 5:45pm??
- THE WORLD WILL STOP TURNING!
- Someone will get offended.
- People will probably think I am dead...
Basically, I am alive, I love you all, and please earth, keep on orbiting.
It kind of amazes me how dependent I am on my cell phone. I mean, I remember when having caller ID was super cool. Does anyone remember teen lines? I wanted one so badly, but my parents were not having any of that. Oh man, getting to have a phone in my room was a huge deal! (of course getting to decorate my room how I wanted was a big deal too... that's a story for another day, haha!) I had no use for a phone when I was 10 or 12, but little kids have WAY cooler phones than I do. It baffles me! Why does a 12 year old need an iphone? I can't even use one properly. My brother has one and I look at it the same way I look at Dick Cheney- what the hell am I supposed to do with that?
Clearly I am accessible, people know where I live, I have a work phone, 3 e-mail addresses I check regularly, facebook... ok, I am getting kind of disgusted by all the ways people can contact me- oh and I have a BLOG! Oooookaaaaayyy... hmm.
This shit is bananas. (I know a few people just sang b-a-n-a-n-a-s).
I assume at some point we will all have crackberries and iphones. I figure by the time I have kids, I will get my baby a going home outfit and a cell phone after she/he is born. (I will not have my kid behind in the times).
This is not to say I hate technology. I just am very bad at using it. I pretend like I know what to do sometimes... but normally, if I have a problem with one of my techy toys I either turn it off and on, and if that doesn't work I shake it and pray that something shifts back into place. I actually have a tiny little laptop now... for everyone who knows the SAGA of my old hp, she is still working, it was just time to move on. Now I have the tiniest pink computer- you would be shocked. Its really cool- I am proud of me :)
My mother has learned how to use the Internet. My mother did not know how to turn a computer on 2 months ago, now she is googling her children. She told me she has been googling me. hahaha... that's a little unsettling.
I don't own a camera that develops film anymore.
It is normal for people to meet potential life partners via online dating sites. Um... I still remember when chat rooms were taboo and it was considered CRAZY to meet someone you found on line in person. I still am not ok with it. I get that we are all busy but, for real? No offense if you like dating sites, I still prefer to meet someone in person and make sure that photo was not airbrushed- THEN I go home and on line "research" you, duh.
And really, texting, dear god what on EARTH do people do without it? I have made more bad decisions and said so many things I never would have if it weren't for the ability to text. I mean basically, I can talk to anyone at any time, say REALLY stupid things, and attach a personality to a guy that does not exist because we don't actually talk on the phone- we maintain a text relationship. awesome. See here for an accurate account of what text dating is like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX3ws6OnGuE
Moral of the story, I have not developed film in ages, I do not have a land line in my apartment and I don't know what I would do without facebook. I have a phone to talk to like 7 people and I text all the rest. ha.
It kind of amazes me how dependent I am on my cell phone. I mean, I remember when having caller ID was super cool. Does anyone remember teen lines? I wanted one so badly, but my parents were not having any of that. Oh man, getting to have a phone in my room was a huge deal! (of course getting to decorate my room how I wanted was a big deal too... that's a story for another day, haha!) I had no use for a phone when I was 10 or 12, but little kids have WAY cooler phones than I do. It baffles me! Why does a 12 year old need an iphone? I can't even use one properly. My brother has one and I look at it the same way I look at Dick Cheney- what the hell am I supposed to do with that?
Clearly I am accessible, people know where I live, I have a work phone, 3 e-mail addresses I check regularly, facebook... ok, I am getting kind of disgusted by all the ways people can contact me- oh and I have a BLOG! Oooookaaaaayyy... hmm.
This shit is bananas. (I know a few people just sang b-a-n-a-n-a-s).
I assume at some point we will all have crackberries and iphones. I figure by the time I have kids, I will get my baby a going home outfit and a cell phone after she/he is born. (I will not have my kid behind in the times).
This is not to say I hate technology. I just am very bad at using it. I pretend like I know what to do sometimes... but normally, if I have a problem with one of my techy toys I either turn it off and on, and if that doesn't work I shake it and pray that something shifts back into place. I actually have a tiny little laptop now... for everyone who knows the SAGA of my old hp, she is still working, it was just time to move on. Now I have the tiniest pink computer- you would be shocked. Its really cool- I am proud of me :)
My mother has learned how to use the Internet. My mother did not know how to turn a computer on 2 months ago, now she is googling her children. She told me she has been googling me. hahaha... that's a little unsettling.
I don't own a camera that develops film anymore.
It is normal for people to meet potential life partners via online dating sites. Um... I still remember when chat rooms were taboo and it was considered CRAZY to meet someone you found on line in person. I still am not ok with it. I get that we are all busy but, for real? No offense if you like dating sites, I still prefer to meet someone in person and make sure that photo was not airbrushed- THEN I go home and on line "research" you, duh.
And really, texting, dear god what on EARTH do people do without it? I have made more bad decisions and said so many things I never would have if it weren't for the ability to text. I mean basically, I can talk to anyone at any time, say REALLY stupid things, and attach a personality to a guy that does not exist because we don't actually talk on the phone- we maintain a text relationship. awesome. See here for an accurate account of what text dating is like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX3ws6OnGuE
Moral of the story, I have not developed film in ages, I do not have a land line in my apartment and I don't know what I would do without facebook. I have a phone to talk to like 7 people and I text all the rest. ha.
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