Technology Misfit

Help! I’m lost on Technology Highway and no GPS is going to help me find my way.

If you are like me, you missed the exit, a cell phone is no longer a cell phone. Now a cell phone looks like a thin, flat, plastic book. Why can’t they make a cell phone for us “techno-challenged” folks? A phone with some numbers you can SEE and maybe an on and off button.

Each week when I go to Georgia Perimeter College for my class, Human Communications, I realize I am not only lost on Technology Highway, I am stuck.

The students have phones with small keyboards using one thumb to type and books with no pages just screens you can maneuver with one finger.

The ad on tv says the new “flavor of the week” cell phone is called a Droid or I phone and has 4G capability, a 3.2 megapixel camera, bluetooth connectivity and a genius button.

As God is my witness, I only understood one word in that ad, “camera,” but I am sure I could use that genius button if I knew what that was.

In a recent survey, 47% of Americans said they used social networking. Great!

At least, I have company with the other 53% who either don’t know what that is or still know how to pick up a phone and call someone.

Hello, Monticello, are you home?