I have a twitter account but I don't tweet.  I guess that is like owning a car but not driving it.  I got the twitter account for www.latenightmusings.com.  At one point I thought I might use that account but decided I did enough writing just producing my musings.  Besides, my wife threatened me with bodily harm if I spend any more time on the internet.  That is also a reason why my cell phone doesn't have an internet capability; I refuse to tweet on it, I refuse to GPS on it, I refuse to search on it, I refuse to check the latest sports scores on it and I refuse to have my email follow me around.  Also, I refuse to watch videos on a screen that small - I prefer at least a forty inch screen.

 

I do have a Facebook account to let those who are on my friends list know when I have published a new musing.  I'm not sure how effective that is since those who have fifty or more friends probably get hundreds of Facebook messages; they probably are lost in all those postings they get from their friends..  But other than my occasional "heads up" messages, I don't use my Facebook account either.  I guess that is my way of saying to this world of technology, "Enough already." 

 

However, enough already doesn't include texting on my cell phone.  My wife does a fair amount of that with her children and includes me in her world of texting.  It reached the point where I had to exchange my old cell phone for one that has a keyboard to facilitate my texting.  I got tired to pushing some keys two or three times to get the right letter.  Again though, except for texting with my wife, the keyboard is unused.

 

I think in twenty or thirty years historians will look back and conclude that starting a few years ago technology came to permeate our lives.  While that might not be true for some third world countries, it is true for the rest of us.  That includes not only the US, but most countries on the European continent and many Asian counties (including China).  They too are awash in computers and cell phones.  Technology is developing so fast it is impossible to tell what this technological world will look like a few decades from now.  All we can say with certainty is that it's not going away.  The only thing we can be assured of is that when those now are in their teens are my age they will be as confused with technology as we are today.  It will serve them right.