To plus or not to plus

If you know me at all, you know I buck against change, particularily electronic change. When DVD's came out, I was skeptical that anything could be better than VHS. In fact, I almost had to be hogtied to the chair to actually WATCH a DVD. Then came laptops in college, when I thought the clickity clack of typing during a lecture was beyond annoying. (Now I'm wondering how much better in college I might have been had I gotten over that). Then came the Blu-Ray player - which I STILL remain skeptical about, the Kindle, that took me forever to even understand the point of. And, ofcourse, the iphone, which I broke down and bought last month.

I'm not what you would say technologically advanced. I can recall in 2005 when this handy dandy thing called MYSPACE came out. I had no idea how to even upload my picture let alone deal with the mass confusion of html. But being 3000 miles away from anyone that was familiar to me, I was desperate to connect. And thus began my journey into the world of social networking. Myspace was where I learned to blog, where I found out about new and interesting bands, and where I reconnected with a lot of old friends I thought were lost forever. So when people started slowly switching to facebook, I being my old-fashioned self, adamately was against doing it. But after a few months, I felt like the last kid on bus. I was blogging, but who was reading? I was updating my status, but no one noticed. Finally, I reluctantly moved to facebook.

Ofcourse, facebook wasn't without it's share of annoyances. I could no longer post music, video posts were limited, and they constantly changed their formats which really made me mad. Fast forward to 2 weeks ago when I got an invitation to join google + a "new" social networking site. I didn't think anything of it, until I saw all of the cool features it had. So I, Erin- I -hate- new- technology Warkentin, decided to be on "the cutting edge" and joined. I have to say, I love the new features, and even though there are still a limited amount of people I know on it, I feel like I am somehow a part of something big. Or at least, something that WILL be big. And by then, I will know all the ins and outs of the system instead of being miserably behind. I am making my prediction now... Google + is going to be the next BIG trend in social networking. If nothing else, because I'm willing it to be so.

So stand back world and be amazed.

Dear Windows: YOU SUCK

This is what my face looks like after using my video editing software. I like to call this face: Technology, I hate you but I need you or Why am I so broke?

Now this all dates back to my younger years as a teenager. My parents were the focus on the family type who believed that computers were evil and the internet was the anti-christ. So when we brokedown and got the old dial-up aol back in...wait for it... 1998 it was a big deal.

Since then, I've obviously gotten more technologically savvy. But, I've always been broke. And it's been my experience that those two things DO NOT mix. When I went to college, my parents gave me a used Macintosh computer from 1986. If you think I'm exaggerating.. I assure you, I truly am not. They thought it would be a good "writing papers" computer, it turned out to not be.

Later I married Tim and discovered that we were forever doomed to remain oldschool PC people for 2 reasons: A) Because we were poor and B) His dad had a "nack" for building computers. Now this has proven to be helpful for computer updates, and I am terribly grateful that I don't still have the '86 Macintosh computer that weighs more than my 3-year-old.

However, I long for an imac. I drool over every commercial. I sigh in defeat whenever I see a youtube video with MAC software. I dream for the day when I will actually have a webcam built into my computer. I long for the day when I will own a laptop. But sadly.... I fear those will be the days I am in retirement and the MAC will be obselete.

So until retirement, I will be making the above face while I wait an absurd amount of time for my computer to think properly.