Some days I feel old and out of touch...what's yours?

that's not how it works. That's not how any of this works.

Hahaha...I feel like that woman on a daily basis. My dd is about to turn 18 and leave the nest. She's my only, so I suspect I'll be totally in the dark about technology in about 9 months. We've already discussed how I'm going to have to skype her weekly just to learn how to use new technology.

I am a librarian/ gifted teacher at a MS/HS. I dream about the day in the not too distant future when I can retire and sit on my couch reading hardback books listening to the radio. While I do stay up with ever changing technology out of necessity, I find much of it irrelevant and exhausting.

I don't understand the point of snapchat either.

What's Snapchat??!


JUST kidding!


I (purposely) feel old and out of date every day when my kids say constantly, "No, mom. Just no." I go out of my way to put my old lady spin on modern things to annoy/make them laugh. We bond daily over my old-ness.

Examples:
"I love me some Tay-Tay!" (Taylor Swift)
Singing "Uptown. Funk You Up. Uptown Funk You Up" really loud in the car.
Starting a discussion about Adam Levine's tattoos

I don't get it either. My 14 yr old DS uses it to communicate with his friends and I just think it's dumb.

I guess I'm old and ornery too. But that's okay... I have two sons at home with me, and I call one Tech Support (fix my phone!) and the other Fandango (what's playing at the movies this weekend?) so I rarely have to touch my technology stuff on my days off.

Ya Snapchat drives me nuts....I keep thinking whatever is "next" has got to be better. OTOH I do use it with my kids and its funny if you don't try to worry about how you look in selfies. I swear it has a built-in filter to make me look like crud! We do a lot of black background snaps too (just put your thumb over the camera).

Funny story, DD's BF decided about 20 minutes before I was taking her to school on her birthday that he wanted to either pick up a coffee to bring to school or surprise her at the coffee shop. Starts by sending me a snapchat asking if I'm taking her. I respond with a snap "yep". Then he snaps back "what time will be there"...OMG luckily I had his # so I could text him, since I had no idea what he was planning it would have taken an hour to plan it through snaps!! (Neither could drive at the time, so obviously we had to quickly work out details). What was cute was when I pulled up to the door and told my DD to run in and I'll park and be right in. She was ticked and refused to get out of the car! So I had to tell her calm down and look inside...

DS is less into social media than I am, so although I did get the Snapchat app when it started getting lots of press, I have no need for it.

I'm primarily a Facebook lurker, because to my old timey views, putting all your personal bidness, brags and innermost thoughts on a public site is unseemly, and I am embarrassed for people a lot. But I don't feel necessarily old and out of touch; many days I just marvel at the chasm between what is "normal" to me and what has become "normal" in people's use of social media. 

Lately, I just feel like there's too much information--too much web--and I long for the days of finite stacks of books and piles of magazines.

I felt a little twinge of envy watching Downton Abbey when the family got the wireless--and that's not even my generation, lol.

I've managed to escape having a cell phone. I've managed to stay off social media. I do have an iPad and love it. But my darling husband has informed me that he is getting me a phone so we can text each other. I just smirk and tell him, "Good luck with that!" So yeah, I'm thoroughly embracing being old and set in my ways. There's just too much damn personal information out there and too many ways of sharing it that I find to be a time suck.

My DS15 loves Fall Out Boy. I enjoy a few of their songs, too. Fall Out Boy is going to be in concert in March in Houston. He asked if I would take him, and I said yes, provided I can get tickets.

Somehow, this has evolved into my taking half of his high school with us. You know, "Mom, can such-and-such ride with us?" Then, "Hey Mom, how about this guy?" and this one and this one and this one.

I can handle my DS and FOB. I'm not sure I can handle my DS, FOB and half of his high school...

DH is the Director of Network Infrastucture at a financial institution. He hates his cell phone and just recently started texting. Probably because his staff was making fun of him in his ancient ways. He's a freakin' computer geek who didn't text. LOL

The lame videos my kids watch on youtube make me feel old. Seriously, how much other girl shopping can you watch?

I don't have any of those things -- Snapchat, or Instagram, or whatever. I do have an iPhone though. I had to get dd a new carrier when she went away to college because our old plan (Virgin Mobile) had zero coverage in her small town. So we went with Verizon and we got her an iPhone. So...of course I had to get a new plan also and since I love Apple...well, let's just say I love my iPhone. lol

I love texting, and I do take a lot of photos and send them to dd -- of our dog being cute or the weather outside the front door or the dinner, etc. lol.

However, I know I'm old. The thing I cannot do reliably is switch our TV from television to dvd to video and back. Before she left for school dd wrote out a detailed guide for me, step by step, starting with "push such-and-such button to turn on dvd player".   She even traced the remotes (there are three of them) onto cardboard and labeled them so I can remember which is which. I needed that step because they're all "Sony" so her saying "the Sony remote" didn't help. 

Yeah,   at me.

Yeah.  I can do it at my own home (finally), but am LOST at my son's.  He uses the Playstation 3 or whatever for his DVDs and I have no clue how to work that. He said he would write it all out for me.   My poor grandson wanted to watch Land Before Time the other night, but I couldn't figure out how to do it, so we watched Netflix instead.    Hey, a year ago I wouldn't have been able to switch that on, so I figure I am making progress! 

Yes, but I am getting to the point where I don't care.