I don't like phones to start with - a phone call just interrupts what I'm doing and my home phone is unlisted but I still get the robot calling sales people. I never answer that phone until the caller starts to leave a message and if I know that person, family or two friends who have the number, I'll answer, otherwise, I'm not. Sales people seldom leave a message, they just hang up.
My cell phone is on but the NSA won't find me anywhere suspicious and if I thought they wanted to find my location, I'd turn it off and deep six it somewhere disgusting.
I'm really old so I lived when no one knew where anyone was if he/she was out of sight. Cars were cars and not moving computers. If you wanted information, you had an encyclopedia to look it up. There was also something called “books”. They had a front and back and pages in between. You just opened the book and read it and you knew you had it because it was on a shelf in a bookcase.
We also had something called, “records”. They were round and you put them on a machine and it played the music on the record. I remember the first TV set. That was something - shows and news on a screen. That was the beginning of hell on wheels as more electronic gadgets began to appear every day it seemed and now we can't move without something electronic following us.
I'm not sure we are better off than my earlier days.
I remember those days and when the first televisions came around. It was shortly after the first television station in Houston, Texas that we got our TV.
And of course I remember when cars were just cars and phones were just phones.
However, I do have to say that I love the Internet for the quick information that I can have at my fingertips, even making deposits over the Internet at banks and the iPhone, which is a marvelous device. I don’t have any problems with them.
I’m currently using an iPad to write this and I’ve been known to type an answer on Free Republic, with this iPad, while waiting at a red light ... :-) ...