The satellite dish is better than dial-up, but its speed is nothing to brag about. When I’m home, I never get texts about what I’m missing out on and I never Facebook stalk. If I want to call my friends I may have to talk to one of their parents, because I am calling their house using a landline.
This slow-down pace of communications has dramatically carried into my college life. If I turn my phone on silent for class, I may forget about it for hours after class if not for the rest of the day. I usually forget to check my e-mail until mid afternoon, and I don’t know how to change most settings on my Facebook page.
Being low tech has its drawbacks: I often miss important things because someone sent me an email and I forgot to check my inbox for two days. It also takes me twice as long to make a PowerPoint presentation as the average college kid and forget about me trying to use Excel.
To some I seem different, but if you go to Delaware County in upstate New York, you will find that there are many people like me. The lack of technology causes people to focus more on living in the moment. We never worry about what we could be missing out on or what our friends are up to.
It’s all about what we are doing in the present.
It is amazing how much less stressful life is when you are not constantly being updated on what everyone else around you is doing, and that is how I want to live.
All the tech-savvy kids can stress about having the newest gadget to connect with their friends. Meanwhile, you will find me hanging out with my friends and connecting with them in the good old fashion way: face-to-face.
Always being attached to a cell phone or computer causes people to miss out on important things in life.
Why spends hours looking through photos of your friend’s spontaneous trip to Universal Studios when you could be there yourself?