The Downside to Technology

There are certain technologies that have run their course. When was the last time you were asked for your fax number? Also, voicemail and landlines are getting phased out by messaging services and internet phones. You can save so much time by just writing a short response instead of that lengthy voicemail. Along with the internet comes horrible people and misinformation. Our technology experience would be so much better if we didn't need Snopes.com to invalidate hoaxes, anti-virus software and secure certificates to protect us from scammers and spammers, software to keep our kids from seeing things they shouldn't, filters to keep us from clicking through annoying click bait links, and campaigns to educate us about the malevolence of cyber bullying. Not everything on the internet can be trusted, as pointed out earlier. Information needs to be verified and validated through several sources. Lastly, we depend so much on our technology that it gets to be hard to put it down. When we wake up in the morning, we check our phones and our FitBits to see how well we slept. We even take our phones out when on dates.

Selfie Shoes

I came across this article and absolutely have no words. It is a funny April Fools ad but on some levels it feels like we are not too far from it consider the selfie stick is an actual product that you can buy. Who spends money on that type of stuff? Since the selfie stick has been banned form certain places, we have come up with a way to still take awesome looking pictures of ourselves. What happened to actually asking someone to take a picture of you? We better get to stretching our legs to see what wonderful poses we can manage since both arms are going to be in the frame. Better yet, there should be a mobile application that can mesh two selfies together so that you end up with both of your hands in the frame. Do you take selfies? Why is that even a word in our language?