Is it just me or do you find that the older you get, the less you like change?

Question

I hate getting a new cell phone, for instance.

Hubby bought me a new wide screen flat monitor for my computer and I don't want to tell him that I HATE THE THING!

I am used to my old one, damnit.

My kids laught at me because my video camera is the size of a recipe box. They bought me a small one and I never could figure out how to use the damned thing.

They bought me a CD player for my car and I don't like that either, the CD's keep getting scratched and don't work. Cassettes didn't have that problem.

I just don't get it... somethings are getting larger and larger, like TV screens and some things are getting smaller and smaller, like cell phones. Why on earth would anyone want to test message constantly using only 8 tiny keys?

Answer 1

Yes, my boyfriend got his 6 and 7 year old granddaughters Ipod Shuffles and digital cameras for Christmas. They already have their music loaded on the IPOD and have set up a Christmas photo album online. I got a different cell phone the day after Thanksgiving, and I haven't even figured out my voice mailbox let alone how to download music to it since it so different than my old cell phone.And, yes, I have tried to look at the instructions! I am with you on this, Cheesy!

Answer 2

I don't mind change, sometimes it is fun to get a new thing and learn it. I agree about cell phones getting smaller and smaller--I saw one the other day (we are looking for new ones) that was barely 1 1/4' wide! Cute, but I would never be able to find it! Tho these days you don't have to text on those 8 keys, there are new cell phones with a complete keyboard, just for texting. Now, those are bigger! With a camera and more music capability than you could ever listen to in life, full internet, email, games, and all kinds of other things.

And now, we are beyond CD's, now we have DVD's, and pretty soon those will be gone and we will have something else. Remember 8-tracks? A thousand years ago!

Just wait, nano technology keeps making things smaller and smaller, who knows where we will be in 10 years. I am excited to see what is in the future!

Answer 3

I feel compelled to answer this one. I will agree with you in one respect. I am a creature of habit just like a lot of people. But I am less concerned with change than with other aspects of it. What i mean is: if it is a change for the good, then I approve. If it is a change that I can control then that is good.

Let me go on with some events that are going to happen with me next year. I am trying to get myself a job at the moment to clear off some debts. I expect to be taking on either a computing job, or some paid fundraising activities, very early in January. Once my debts are solved, I will be joining a drama company that tours other countries. This will be for a minimum two years. I expect to be working in Europe, and quite possibly learning a new language as welll as acting!! The language being for the country that I work in.

So......new living quarters, new job, new language, new country, new friends. Do you feel for me yet? By the way, I will still have access to the internet, probably.

How about that for an answer?

Answer 4

Maybe this is just me, I don't know, but do agree with an answerer who said about getting out in the world. If we stay within our own little world, then we don't accept change very well.
Having a husband in the military, I had to adapt or else, so that is how I view life now. I feel like I'm missing something if I don't keep up with technology.
The one change that's hard for me to adjust to is: when you go to your favorite grocery store and the item you are used to finding in aisle #1, is now in aisle #3.
Next month the item could be in aisle #11.
I also do not like shopping in mega stores. There's no going in the store, getting the item and getting out of there right away because a person has to walk so far just to get a gallon of milk.

Answer 5

hey cheesy,calm down dagnamit!!!
change is good believe it or not.You will love all your new gadgets ,once you have mastered the act of using them,they do more things than the old ones and are better in ....their funny sort of way.you gonna have to ask the kids to show you,how to use them ,for the things you might like to do with them,as there is ofcourse unnecessary functions in them new gadgets.When I got my last moby,outdated now,about 5 years ago,it had,still has an uttility in it where you can have a conversation with 5 people at the same time,including the user of the phone.....now think of yourself and another 4 close friends,where you all around a table in a bar or restaurant,and are all constantly speaking,all at the same time........see what I mean! Impossible to hear everyone and also impossible to take the info in and at the same time give info out,so as this will never work in a real life situation,how on earth could it ever work via the mobile phone,with bad signals,been on trains and the like.so just ask the scientists of the family (kids) to show you only the things you like to be doing with them,and you be allrite in a few weeks I promise you.Enjoy the ....learning curve haha !

Answer 6

Then I guess New Hampshire should be changed to Slightly Less Old Hampshire, New York to Slightly Less Old York, New Jersey to Slightly Less Old Jersey, and New Mexico to Slightly Less Old Mexico. NO, New England should not be changed in the least. For one New England is far less than a mouthful than what you are proposing. For another the name was selected to identify from where the colonists originated but that it was not England.

Answer 7

I find the opposite to be true, I wish for change, only a change back to truth and reality - which is highly unlikely.

So many people are stuck in "circles" in their minds, unable to move past certain ideas and or theories.

The consumer market, if you haven't noticed fluctuates, giving you what you haven't had and then going back to something comparable to what you started with, then moving forward past the initial technological increase.

***oh and by the way, cassettes got eaten in the car, not scratched... You can also make copies of the CD by burning your favorite songs to the disc and then your initial CD never wears out, or get an MP3 player.

Not all technology is bad but most technology leads to a large irreversible impact on the ecosystem (through material consumption for mass production).

Being intelligent is ok, being too hard headed to learn or use your brain is dumb, decide which it is you are doing and which you think is right.

Answer 8

Actually, what I don't like is the PROCESS involved in change...but once THERE, I'm a happy camper.

I often think it is because I'm a military brat and was raised on change. I bore easily and welcome a change of venue, job, you name it...

DISCOVERY and LEARNING are my mantra - although I went kicking and screaming into the computer age, I disliked NOT knowing, so I learned - now I don't know what I ever did without one!

SOME changes I don't buy into - don't need an IPOD...a walkman is fine! LOL

Don't need a cell phone that accesses EVERY thing...the one I have I don't use all of its feature, but I DO know how to use them..I'm just cheap with the almighty buck! lol

Answer 9

Until I was in my late 50's I tended to embrace change as long as I was satisfied it was an improvement or stood a chance of being so. Once I got to my late 50's I found that I did not want to know and was often heard to say"If the jidqioehr thing isn't bust why the rpf98n 2qp do you want to fix it?" To my actual distress when I settled down a bit I found I just did not want to know. It was even more irritating when my boss used to threaten me with all sorts of action if I was not ready for a new system for such and such a date when I knew that he was even less ready than I was otherwise he would not feel the need to threaten me.
I was glad to retire and apart from the backchat have never regretted it

Answer 10

Just when they come out with some new fangled invention and you finally decide to get one, they change the format or it becomes obsolete, and you have to buy a new one to keep up with the change. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Then if your not tech savy you have to figure out how it works, before you can even begin to use it. And trying to install something you know nothing about, when you do not have anyone else to help you with it.