This blog’s original purpose was to chronicle using a pager and later a flip phone as my primary mode of communication. The removal of the internet from my hands was an extreme divorce from how I had been operating, whether looking up directions to familiar destinations or using text messages to remember where I was last in a text relationship. It was a leap backward into unknown territory. As Herodtus said, “You never step in the same river twice. ” Trust me, flip phoning was different in 2004 when everyone was painstakingly punching in “cu l8tr.”
A few lessons:
1. Outdated technology can be worse than no technology.
2. Convenience can consume your time and conserve it.
I have my new IPhone and the number is migrating as I type. I am excited to group text, send a photo and shazam.
I love technology and I’m hoping/aspiring to have the discipline to make it my servant and not my master. Wish me luck!
I’m not going back to facebook or instagram.
And, I’m 30.
far from the madding crowd 