Technology Adapters: Early, Late . . & Never
If you’ve yet to “Facebook,” “Twitter,” “Link In” (yes, they’re all verbs) or otherwise seriously partake of the orgy of social media apparently going on out there, I’m sure you’ll relate to the following:
If Caroline Cua’s iPhone looked anything like her closet, where she keeps her dozens of pairs of shoes, she would have screen after screen of applications. But instead her iPhone is nearly empty.
And that’s just fine with her, until she finds herself among friends whose iPhones are studded with icons. When a fellow iPhone owner asked recently to see her apps, she grew self-conscious. “I said to him, “O.K., now I’m officially feeling like a loser,’ ” she recalled.
–“Skirting the Glut of iPhone App’s: When Phones Are Just Too Smart“; The New York Times (1/2/2010)
Actually, there’s an even more antediluvian state than the self-described “technology loser” (above): “technology ostrich.”
That would be anyone putting off buying an iPhone because they don’t want to be one of the technology losers walking around with only 5 app’s installed on their smart phone.
Like me!
In my defense, I know lots of other seasoned Realtors walking around with not-so-smart phones because . . . they still work!
In my case, they also open up Realtor lockboxes (because my Treo has an infrared beam, I don’t need to carry around a separate “fob”); and synch, reliably, with my calendar and contact list.
If it ain’t broke . . .
