I’m approaching the Huh? age signified by how much more difficult it is for me to understand new stuff. It makes some of my elderly pals really angry. Not me. I just smile and say to my self, “Brain, we’ve had a good run, now it’s time to take it easy”.
I wrote my first computer program in 1966. I had my first cell phone in 1986. I’ve made my living as a programmer and a data analyst. You would think with credentials like these, I am a bleeding edge adaptor.
I only accept so much technology and I use it on my terms. When my phone rings while I am in a conversation, people will ask, “Aren’t you going to get that?” I reply, “No, I’m not that important.”
I don’t have streaming services and I have to activate the light switches, turn on the oven and iron my clothes in my house manually. I do have smart thermostats (Yes, they are worth it) and I managed to set up a guest WiFi network for when we have company and I have a QR code printed out so they can scan it to join the network.
That is about the extent to which I have allowed technology to control my personal life.
Social media is limited to here, LinkedIn (I am sort of job searching) and Facebook which I check once every couple of week to see who has posted pictures of their grandchildren or cats.
If I were older — a lot older — I would say I stopped understanding in 1913. That would actually be pretty good since almost everybody else stopped understanding in 1905.
Einstein release Special Relativity on a baffled world in 1905. After many, many decades I have been able to come to grips with it (although only the simpler mathematical equations).
But General Relativity, 1913, is still far out of my grasp, as it is with all but a few super-smart physicists. Even many who work with that do not understand it.
I neither understand nor care. I’m comfortable with whatever modern technologies are necessary, and have, bit by bite, shed those that are superfluous. I’m also finding that the older I get, the less I use social media sites.
C 10 months ago
Oxygen theft
rmremail 10 months ago
And X marks the spot.
keenanthelibrarian 10 months ago
I wouldn’t go near them, if I were you …
Cornelius Noodleman 10 months ago
At least you don’t have to listen to jack hammers.
jvo 10 months ago
Most start-ups end out on the street anyways. This saves moving costs.Plus the WiFi is better out there
Imagine 10 months ago
Don’t worry, Phil. There is nothing to understand anyway.
mrwiskers 10 months ago
I’m approaching the Huh? age signified by how much more difficult it is for me to understand new stuff. It makes some of my elderly pals really angry. Not me. I just smile and say to my self, “Brain, we’ve had a good run, now it’s time to take it easy”.
OldsVistaCruiser 10 months ago
What they need is a platform that will turn Fecesbook into the next MySpace!
Kaputnik 10 months ago
I came to terms with that some years ago.
Say What? Premium Member 10 months ago
That would explain the foul Musk in the air.
BigDeal 10 months ago
I dunno. – I’m with Phil.
Zebrastripes 10 months ago
Yep! Society today! How sad!
Cpeckbourlioux 10 months ago
Moi non plus.
dflak 10 months ago
I wrote my first computer program in 1966. I had my first cell phone in 1986. I’ve made my living as a programmer and a data analyst. You would think with credentials like these, I am a bleeding edge adaptor.
I only accept so much technology and I use it on my terms. When my phone rings while I am in a conversation, people will ask, “Aren’t you going to get that?” I reply, “No, I’m not that important.”
I don’t have streaming services and I have to activate the light switches, turn on the oven and iron my clothes in my house manually. I do have smart thermostats (Yes, they are worth it) and I managed to set up a guest WiFi network for when we have company and I have a QR code printed out so they can scan it to join the network.
That is about the extent to which I have allowed technology to control my personal life.
Social media is limited to here, LinkedIn (I am sort of job searching) and Facebook which I check once every couple of week to see who has posted pictures of their grandchildren or cats.
Count Olaf Premium Member 10 months ago
The Count thinks it should be called The Anti Social Media.
Kveldulf 10 months ago
If I were older — a lot older — I would say I stopped understanding in 1913. That would actually be pretty good since almost everybody else stopped understanding in 1905.
Einstein release Special Relativity on a baffled world in 1905. After many, many decades I have been able to come to grips with it (although only the simpler mathematical equations).
But General Relativity, 1913, is still far out of my grasp, as it is with all but a few super-smart physicists. Even many who work with that do not understand it.
Bookworm 10 months ago
Social Media Construction Zone: Hard hats suggested, but not required (some heads are already hard enough). 8>)
sleepyhead 10 months ago
Birds of a feather.
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member 10 months ago
It’s all the same. Just different avatars and faster scams.
Linguist 10 months ago
I neither understand nor care. I’m comfortable with whatever modern technologies are necessary, and have, bit by bite, shed those that are superfluous. I’m also finding that the older I get, the less I use social media sites.
DM2860 10 months ago
You have to Thread through that crowd
mindjob 10 months ago
These guys look like they’d be really good at posting videos of cats. Just what we need more of
Can't Sleep 10 months ago
I wish they’d finish tearing down the old one.
wallylm 10 months ago
More like Social Media Destruction zone, especially in Chef Twit’s case.
mistercatworks 10 months ago
It’s a “distributed” phenomenon which may be the point of the joke or Wiley Miller not understanding it. :)
bobpeters61 10 months ago
Also notice that most of the new social network people are crammed into a little square “box” except for one guy getting comfy outside that box.
Tonto & Redd Panda 10 months ago
And the puppy is thinking; ‘’Look at all those targets and me with an empty tank. Sigh.’’
smadanek 10 months ago
X marks the spot, in your mind it will rot…
anomaly 10 months ago
If only social media spread could be kept within boundaries like that.
willie_mctell 10 months ago
The existentialists figured this one out years ago. Purpose and meaning are not things you can apply to life.
ira.crank 10 months ago
GoComics is as much social media as I can stand.
gregcomn 10 months ago
Time for an Acme anvil. . . .
198.23.5.11 10 months ago
optometrist opens across street;does land office business
Buoy 10 months ago
The older I get and the more I know, the more I realize I don’t know sh!t. And if anyone tries to tell you they know, run.
AndrewSihler 10 months ago
A new social medium specializing in discussion groups relating to cybercurrency.
locake 10 months ago
It is nice that they put up a sign to warn you. Easy to avoid that way.
einarbt 10 months ago
Where are all the good grand pianos gone – or anvils?
Chris Sherlock 10 months ago
I haven’t understood anything in years. I have yet to come to terms with that.
Maj. Dystopia, 42d AdBlockers, Joy Division 10 months ago
There has been an alarming increase in the number of things you know nothing about. — Ashleigh Brilliant