It wasn't that many years ago that I was single, just moved in to my first apartment and only had a land line to make local calls. I didn't have a home compute and was doing everything I could to make ends meat. A year or so passes and I passed my state boards, finally I can afford to eat meat more that 2 times a week! Many other things followed including the purchace of my first cell phone. I was 21 years old and just getting my first cell phone, I was so excited, pretty lame huh.
That was about 7 years ago, now I can't leave the house without my life line. I think back at how we used to communicate you could call a friend and if they were not home you'd leave a message and they would get back with you when they got home. We also had email on sloooow dial up connections, which made phone calls the easiest way to communicate. Now in our society of instant gratification cell phones, text messages, high speed internet, instant messaging, twitter, facebook, ect. are all different ways that we communicate with each other.
This whole little rant came about as I was laying in bed last night trying to go to sleep but so excited that I had just gotten my new phone. I finally got an iphone! The technology amazes me, I now have everything I could want at my finger tips and Simon has a new toy (our old phones). It is pretty bad that my 7 month old thinks he needs a phone. I hope this is not a sign of things to come.....
Technology is crazy. To think that you can take a picture of you and Simon in Amarillo and I can see it the in a couple of hours the same day in Shreveport. Or that we could IM with Melissa when she was in Iraq. It is crazy but it makes our world seem so much smaller.
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