Good on her.
The fact that anyone has to do this is a shame.
The last time my computer broke down I went about six months before I bought a new one. This was around 2009, I think. It was actually pretty nice, I read a lot of books. It would be harder now because I use the computer more. Pay all my bills, depend on Amazon too much, lots of folks only know how to get in touch with me by e-mail, and....I do almost all my reading on a Kindle now....sigh
I quit FB in August. I felt like it had become a chore.
“Could you give up Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn for 24 hours? How about for an entire week? A year, anyone?”
Yes, I have never and don’t plan to subscribe to any of these. People act as if this is a part of life that cannot be done without. There is life outside of the virtual world.
Welcome to cyberspace, I’m lost in the fog
Everything’s digital I’m still analog
When something goes wrong
I don’t have a clue
Some 10-year-old smart ass has to show me what to do
Sign on with high speed you don’t have to wait
Sit there for days and vegetate
I access my email, read all my spam, I’m an analog man.
The whole world’s living in a digital dream
It’s not really there
It’s all on the screen
Makes me forget who I am
I’m an analog man
Yeah I’m an analog man in a digital world
I’m gonna get me an analog girl
Who loves me for what I am
I’m an analog man
What’s wrong with vinyl, I think it sounds great
LPs, 45s, 78s but that’s just the way I am
I’m an analog man
Turn on the tube, watch until dawn
One hundred channels, nothing is on
Endless commercials, endless commercials, endless commercials
The whole world’s glued to the cable TV
It looks so real on the big LCD
Murder and violence are rated PG, too bad for the children
They are what they see
The whole world’s living in a digital dream
It’s not really there
It’s all on the screen
Makes me forget who I am
I’m an analog man
Yeah I’m an analog man in a digital world
I’m gonna get me an analog girl
Who loves me for what I am
I’m an analog man
Yeah I’m an analog man in a digital world
_ JOE WALSH “Analog Man”
Sure, I could give up social media. But how could I give up FR?
Anyone have the over/under on this?
Younger adults have already moved on. Millennial are too busy with their careers and kids. I think it’s mainly the middle aged and older adults who are social media addicts. Eventually, there will be a backlash and everyone will move on.
I don’t spend any time with social media, but I would miss streaming video if I didn’t have a computer.
Easy enough to do if you haven't gotten involved with Social Media to start with. What a gigantic waste of time.
I think they paid to be included on her list!
I don’t do FaceBook, Twitter, Instagram, or LinkedIn. Relatives keep encouraging me to get on FB, but I don’t know what I would “not do”, in order to make time for that. I WOULD miss FR, and a handful of blogs and sewing sites, which I check most days.
I think it is funny reading these holier then thou comments from people who I see posting here daily. :)