Maybe I was being a bit hard on myself in that last post (many moons ago) when I described myself as a ‘technology philistine’. After all, how can someone who works with websites not have some sort of attraction to technology?
I intuitively figured out Vista’s nifty folder navigation – much to the amazement of my partner Mr Web Developer who, for months, had been blissfully ignorant that there are now dropdowns. For years I’ve corrected spelling, punctuation and grammar mistakes in Wikipedia (though that’s more to do with my lack of tolerance for what I call the apos-tastrophe). For a brief period in my life I even used Linux.
Maybe it’s just that, as a Gen Yer, I’m very aware that we’re a guinea pig generation as far as this brave new world is concerned. We’re still mixing old technologies and new, but increasingly old ways are being phased out in exchange for some that are less tried-and-tested. Nobody really knows what happens to all that personal information that’s floating around in cyberspace, or who has rights to it, and how it can be used. That makes me a little uneasy.
I still haven’t started using Twitter.
