Forgot I had this Posterous site... thought I'd add something just to see what happens.
Technology sure is... complicated. I seem to see new things getting developed all the time that somehow are supposed to make life easier. I find they just make life more technological, not easier at all.
It reminds me of the story of the vacuum cleaner. Before it was invented, it was traditional to hang your rugs outside and whack 'em over and over until the dust kind of sort of dropped off. It was not that important that all the dust was gone, just a goodly amount. Then came the first vacuum cleaners. They were hard to use and didn't clean very well, but at least you didn't have to drag heavy rugs outside. So people just got used to a little more dust and a little less lugging heavy rugs around. But of course technology moved on and the vacuum cleaners became more efficient. Instead of reducing the workload though, they changed how we felt about dust. All of a sudden, a little dust was a bad thing and had to be vacuumed up ASAP. So we began vacuuming every month or every week. Sure, they weren't as heavy, they sucked up dust better, but we used them far more often. What was a once a year spring cleaning became a regular ritual.
Sound familiar? We started off with email which started as a once in a while thing and now seems to be what we do all day; then came text, which seems to be the leading cause of carpel tunnel syndrome in our children (okay, maybe not QUITE that bad, but still!); and now social media. We tweet, we blog, we post... all the live long day! Some people can't let it go for more than a few minutes. I know many of my colleagues who run twitter type clients in the background as they do all their other normal duties. Talk about invasive technology! What ever happened to just letting go? And just look at the plethora of blogs out there now... are there any sites left that don't actually have a freakin' blog attached to them?
Half my day seems to be just trying to keep up with the technology of our time... I visit blogs, tweet with fellow instructors and instructional designers, and basically make my eyes blurry and kind of rectangular shaped with all the monitor viewing I do! I think I just need a very long vacation. The problem is, I am infected as well. I can't seem to let go of my iPhone 4 (so freakin' cool that face time, isn't it!), so I am tweeting, surfing, responding to work email, and in general forgetting to actually TAKE THE DAMN VACATION!
Gee... I wonder if this blog post will go out to twitter and flickr as well? It's supposed to... maybe I should fire up the iPhone and check it out... or maybe I'll just go get a latte.
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