Okay, I admit it: I am not the most technologically advanced person in the world. Unlike my now grown kids and my growing-up-way-too-fast grandchildren, I was not raised with all the technology that they have been. To them, it's no big deal when a computer service (Blogger, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) changes the look and processes on their pages. They seem to instinctively assimilate the changes and just keep on with business as usual.
On the other hand, there's me! When my services change something -- example my dashboard access to my Blogs -- it inevitably results in me wasting hours of trying to read (and make any sense out of) the HELP sections and RECENT CHANGES pages. And I get really frustrated when those pages refer to settings that were in their OLD format but not in the new one.
So I invariably call one of my kids -- especially my wonderfully techno-savvy daughter -- who talk me through the problem, even though I end up feeling like the 5 year old being introduced to the mysteries of the written word by a patient mentor who can't quite hide their "I-don't-understand-why-you-don't-get-this" expertise. I guess it's turnabout for when I was teaching them (to tie their shoes, learn their multiplication tables, etc.)
Still, it would be so much easier if our computer services just let things be. If it ain't broke, don't "fix" it, my friends.
And yes, yes I do feel like my comic heroine Maxine today, thanks for noticing!
I'll be better tomorrow. I promise.
Love you all,
~ Stephanie/Marti/Maxine
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