It’s all about the minor victories.
After the trip to the dentist, and when those lovely painkillers had finally worn off, I reflected on my watershed moment with technology. Those heady days had made me feel that I could take on anything, but then I realised I may have had jumped the gun a bit. I still have a massive appreciation for techonology, but there still is that part that makes me feel like it’s out to get me. However, call it old age, call it the feminine mystique or just plain stubborness, but I’ve decided that it’s time for me to master technology. Phase one, integration.
I’ve got this friend who loves his Apples. He works for an Apple re-seller and he is an Apple rep on his University campus. He’s basically my opposite. Unlike me, he lives for his fancy gadgets. Like I thought an iPhone was an iPhone, but apparently the iPhone4 is way better and when it came out of course he simply had to have it. In fairness, his slightly consumerist tendencies aside he can do some really funky stuff with all his gadgets. He has me spellbound into silence most of the time. And silence and me have never really spent that much time together over the years.
He also loves his social networking, especially Twitter , and he tweets a lot, but he’s one of these people that’s always on the go and never tied to a laptop, or a desktop. He has all these fancy apps on his phone that have everything integrated. He tweets, he facebooks, he has this app that records music and then tells you the name of the song, which is very handy in pub quizzes. Not that I would ever encourage cheating, but sometimes you just have to know the name of the tune! But the most amazing thing that I’ve seen his phone do is act as a modem for his laptop. When I saw this I thought, this is the zenith of technology, I simply must try and get onboard with all this.
Now, I’m no fan of Apples, I’m more of a banana person! But in all seriousness, as far as phones go, I can only use Nokia. It’s a fancy one though, my blockia, it’s black and pink! I also like to social network, but the house I live in doesn’t have internet at the moment, which is the reason why I was a few days late with this article, but the editor is cool, so lets just not mention that again. So I’m sitting there looking at my phone the other day and I decide I’m going to start Tweeting again. I found an app on Facebook that let you update your Twitter and Facebook status simultaeneously, but it stopped working for what ever reason and then my tweeting pretty much ended. But the other night, I kinda stumbled through the phone menu and lo and behold through sheer dumb luck I tweeted. Not only that, but the tweet also showed up on my Facebook page. I felt like such a tech whiz (that’s actually what the tweet says!)
I think I’ve moved up a level on the scale of technophobia. I don’t really know how to do things, but I try. The problems only seem to arise when hardware doesn’t do what it’s supposed to, or more importantly, what I want it to do. I’m still on a learning curve, but I feel a lot more confident about using techbnology now given my recent minor victories. And then maybe one day, I’ll take on those Apples, and then squish them into a decent pint of cider!
