My electronic family

[caseysmom]

Well you are on the internet complaining to your online friends about this

I recently got a smart phone for work, never thought I would like it but I am pretty hooked but the battery dies so fast....

[pomtzu]

Lots of interesting posts - thanks. I see a pattern here too - AGE! The older the poster, the less techie we seem to be - for the most part anyway.
And I have to apologize for calling my cell stupid - it is smart-ish like Cindy said of hers, and has internet capability. I just don't use that feature - too expensive. But I didn't even have to buy the phone - it was an almost brand new one that my son had retired and he gave it to me since I wanted to upgrade to one with an actual keypad and not just a number pad, and then I went on his Verizon plan - and all I pay is $10 per month. Before that I had a Tracfone for years. When I dropped them, I lost over 2000 accumulated minutes, so you can see how much I used it. After being in customer service for over 30 years, I have an aversion to talking on the phone, and it was just an emergency phone. Now I text and nearly never talk on the present one - it is so much easier just to text a message to son or DIL instead of remembering to give them a message or write it down when they get calls to the house land line (which is bare-bones basic) and they are at work.
Oh - and I must confess to having a Kindle Touch, but that was kind of a necessity if I wanted to do any reading for more than 10 minutes at a time. I wouldn't mind having a tablet - maybe some day.........

I often wonder what my parents and grandparents would think of today's electronic world. My mother was totally blown away when the microwave oven became an item in just about every household. I can remember her saying - "how will they ever top that?" If she could only see the world today!

[happylabs]

Lots of interesting posts - thanks. I see a pattern here too - AGE! The older the poster, the less techie we seem to be - for the most part anyway.
And I have to apologize for calling my cell stupid - it is smart-ish like Cindy said of hers, and has internet capability. I just don't use that feature - too expensive. But I didn't even have to buy the phone - it was an almost brand new one that my son had retired and he gave it to me since I wanted to upgrade to one with an actual keypad and not just a number pad, and then I went on his Verizon plan - and all I pay is $10 per month. Before that I had a Tracfone for years. When I dropped them, I lost over 2000 accumulated minutes, so you can see how much I used it. After being in customer service for over 30 years, I have an aversion to talking on the phone, and it was just an emergency phone. Now I text and nearly never talk on the present one - it is so much easier just to text a message to son or DIL instead of remembering to give them a message or write it down when they get calls to the house land line (which is bare-bones basic) and they are at work.
Oh - and I must confess to having a Kindle Touch, but that was kind of a necessity if I wanted to do any reading for more than 10 minutes at a time. I wouldn't mind having a tablet - maybe some day.........

I often wonder what my parents and grandparents would think of today's electronic world. My mother was totally blown away when the microwave oven became an item in just about every household. I can remember her saying - "how will they ever top that?" If she could only see the world today!

My mom got a knock-off type Ipad I guess you would call it from QVC. She is 89 She wanted to be able to get on Facebook since a lot of our family corresponds through there. Poor mom never really used the internet so we have not been able to train her. Plus the device she got is not very user friendly.

I have also tried to explain the fax machine to her. We use it nonstop in my office. She cannot comprehend it. Actually, when you think about it, the Fax is pretty amazing.

[smokey the elder]

Well you are on the internet complaining to your online friends about this

Darn, never a Like button when you need one! I actually like texting within reason; it can be more discreet. Also, for emergencies: texting uses much less band width than voice.

[Randi]

I live in the dark ages, too, and by choice. Back in the early ninetees, John and I had a cell phone we shared, but we hardly ever used it and we could not even remember the number most times.

The only time I needed one, was when I missed a train and my BIL was going to pick me up at a station, but I found a pay phone. I refuse to run around with a cell phone in the street or on the bus/train. If something important comes up, people can ring me at home, or e-mail me.

It's literally impossible to speak to anyone you meet in the street these, they all have a device plugged into their ears. It must be uncomfortable!

[pomtzu]

Well you are on the internet complaining to your online friends about this

No - I'm not complaining - just writing about an observation and admitting my own "shortcomings" in this high tech world we now live in. And yes - the internet is about as high tech as I go - and I'm not the sharpest tack when it comes to computers either. I know enough to get by.