Technology is Hard- A Rant

For all of you out there reading this blog (there really can't be that many), this blog is an assignment that I'm completing for a technology class I'm taking. I can assure you, I don't have anything all that interesting to say, but if you're here, you're already here, so... welcome? Good luck. If you can identify with anything I'm saying, then Go Team Technology-Inept!

These posts are supposed to be about how easy it is to work with all of these tools we're being given, probably, because this is a technology class, which isn't the place to lament about every single thing we're being asked to do. But let's be real. They aren't going to be. Because I don't think technology is easy. My teacher is great- don't get me wrong. It's just that my brain doesn't really work this way! I spend SO MUCH TIME uploading, and re-uploading, only to click on my website and realize the links are all broken, or the photos aren't showing up, or the colors are off....it's seriously a nightmare.

And what's crazy? I grew up in the internet age! I mean, kind of. I remember DOS. I remember "change directory/win" or whatever, and Windows 91. I remember that stuff. I remember playing Frogger on a gray screen with no color. I remember trips to the Mac Lab to play Oregon Trail, because way back when, the only possible good thing to do on a Mac was play Oregon Trail. Everything else about the Mac Lab sucked, and we all whined when we had to go there. (All this is being typed on a MacBook, ah the irony...) I remember records, and I sort of remember 8-track tapes, definitely cassettes and VHS, and clearly CDs. I remember the GIANT floppy disks, and then the smaller ones- I also remember asking my Dad where the giant floppy disks went, and he bravely attempted to explain to a very small child about how technology changes. I remember thinking to myself, "there's no way I'm going to need to replace all of my videos for DVDs. How ridiculous! Who would play a movie on a CD?" And then eating my words a year later. I remember telling my Dad I didn't need an iPod because I had a totally rad Sony CD player (anyone remember those Sony alien commercials, anyone?) and then eating my words less than 6 months later.

What's the point of all of this? The point is to say, I should be the most adaptable of all the recent generations. I didn't learn how to text when I was forced to buy a smart phone because they stopped making non-smart phones, like my mother. I learned to text AS texting was invented. I had that Nokia phone with the changeable face plate and thought I was so cool. (And to be fair, I probably was.) I was the child my father went to when he couldn't figure out how to program his clock/radio in the new car. I was the person putting together all of the technical equipment in our house without reading the directions because I got tired of waiting for my Dad to figure out how to do it. WHY IS THIS SO HARD????????????????????

It is. Trust me. It is. Writing HTML? So hard. And people are like, "no big deal, it's so easy, let's all create our own websites" and I'm like "WTF!!!! OMG!!!! WGO!!!! [what's going on] TIMMC!" [this is making me crazy] (those last two aren't actually internet speak, I just thought out a sentence and then used the first letters of each word....)

So this is MY technology resources blog, which is all about how ridiculously complicated technology is, and I'm not embarrassed to say that I don't know how to use it, even though I'm the master of Facebook.