Computers make our lives easier? Y'think?
Ya gotta log-in here, log-in there, some sites only accept some types of passwords (certain length, combination of numbers and letters, upper and lower case, etc) gotta remember what's what, where to go. Can't do anything without the computer any more. It's very time consuming. I registered for online banking for the sole purpose of moving some money from one account to another and every time you log on, they try to get you to click the "go paperless" link so you never get a statement in the mail, you always will have to log-on every month to see your account. Same with wireless/cell. Just got one recently and they continually send you text messages trying to sell you an additional service and you have to log-on to your account to see it and they try to get you to click the "go paperless" button. Same with the health insurance site and the list goes on. Yesterday, I sent my car tag renewal in and it took me forever to find out whether to make the check payable to the county or to the dmv because they want you to do it online and I don't want to do everything online.
It's all very time consuming. I have different email addresses, one for my website admin, two for personal mail (different purposes), two for my work, then messages come in my email box that I have messages on facebook and in order to reply to them, i have to log-in to facebook. OMG, half my waking hours are spent navigating on the computer to get shit done I used to get done much more quickly before. What a bitch I am, huh? Complain complain complain. Geez. Just saying, I think the computer/internet has made life more complicated rather than less.
Oh and don't get me started about automatic phone systems like when you're calling a company and you really want to talk to a person, not a machine, and you get stuck in the loop of prompts to click 1, 2, 3, 4, etc and there's NO number to push to speak to a human being and there's no contact info on their website other than the phone number you just called, not even an email address. More computer stuff. You can spend an hour of your time spinning your wheels in the loop and accomplishing nothing.
Call me old fashioned but I'm a big fan of human beings. I like to talk to PEOPLE. I also hate the scan-it-yourself checkouts at the grocery store. It's so impersonal and puts people out of work. We need jobs! Pay a person to scan my items rather than computer maintenance contractors to keep the machine running smoothly. I like to say, "Hi! Good morning! How are you today?" and smile and have a chat with the clerk.
OK rant over. You've wasted another 5 minutes of your time on the computer reading my spew. No matter how justified I am in my complaints, your time would have been better spent doing something real. Like eating breakfast with a friend. Or taking your dog for a walk.
Let's all go swimming! Or sailing! Or take a walk in the woods. No blackberries or ipads allowed. No phones, please. Only blueberries and raspberries picked from the orchard and pillow pads to sit on by the campfire and the only dingaling you're gonna hear won't be your phone, it will be me.
Here's my poem for the day:
Tell me your rants & spews. Gimme a shout.
Always wear clean pants & walking shoes.
Peace out.
I only use computers in a part of my let´s call it "free time". I don´t have computers at job but I use it at home to do some job-work -basically not online but using Word-.