Screw Technology...

IPhone, Flat Screen TV, Cable, WiFi, Router, Internet, DVD player....

These things are all really stupid.... and I think this because just yesterday, I tried to work all of these things and failed at it.

I grew up around this stuff... or rather I watched it grow. I used to think of myself as technologically advanced. Hell, I used to set up my Nintendo to the TV... red to red, yellow to yellow, white to white, screw in the cable, plug the thing in... done. Game time.

Now, as of the past two months I have been given a smart phone... an iPhone from my husband who set up a family plan so we could both have nice phones for the price of one of our bills.

Great, wonderful, let me make a phone call to my parents....dropped call. Hi Dad? What? You can't hear me? Oh let me walk outside and stand in the rain on top of my table so you can hear me better!! Stupid Sprint man... they SUCK. They want to charge us another $200 for a thing that lets me talk on my stupid phone that SUCKS.... Sprint you suck, your company sucks, and I hate you and your lack of rip off service.

Am I angry? Just ask the hubster... he gets an ear full when he gets home, because I couldn't call him to yell at him about how my phone doesn't work as a phone. Sure I can text message, and take photos... but I wanted to speak on the phone, and it doesn't do that.

So, what good is it?

I have insisted that we get a land line...like a real telephone in our kitchen that is attached to the wall.... I will be able to hear people, make calls, there will be no more dropped calls, no more static, no more charging, can you imagine?
An old fashioned phone in my house.... I am in love with the idea.
AND my mom can call England all she wants for $5 a month.

A dream come true.
What has happened to us? This new technology is not the answer to our problems. The answer to our problems is to stop making things so complicated. Why can't we just go back to using a radio, and watching a matinee?

Or a real live play.... or socialize like real people in person?

I tried to set up my moms TV last night. We don't have cable, we use other devices to get channels in... called an Athena. We currently pay $50 a month just for Internet, and we also get TV, and use a box that brings in the Internet to our TV.

Now my mom wants Cable, a land line, and a cell phone with her old telephone number on it.
Now we will be paying $150 a month. It's a rip off.... and it's stupid.

Verizon doesn't work here so we have to use Comcast. Which means we have to cancel Verizon at her house... and getting in touch with them to tell them this is impossible. Another Idiot company with terrible customer service.

Technology....
Is not the answer. PEOPLE are... we need people to answer our phones... not machines.

Just give me my phone attached to the wall, a book, and my Internet so I can write.... and lets call it a day.
I hate it all.... and yet with this sort of attitude I will end up like an old fart taking orders from a young buck idiot telling me how to turn on the magic box and explaining things to me like a baby. Can't wait.... really, it's happening already and I'm only 32.

I have to play the game... they have us all in their death traps.
The cherry on the top of all of this? To get in touch with Verizon (a phone company) you can't call them.... you have to do everything online.
My 74 year old mother is screwed. What are you supposed to do if Internet is not your thing? You can't even press 0 to get an operator. We are so advanced that we can't even speak to real people anymore. If you have a question you have to talk to an idiot through chat.

Last night the hubster was on chat for an hour, and basically was asked questions like "What is your favorite color?" Useless... the whole thing was such a waste of his time, and the guy was a total idiot. And... I can't call them... because my stupid phone doesn't make phone calls! Bastards.

It's all such a waste of time when really this was all supposed to save us time.
Ironic isn't it?