Technology

I am not a technologically savvy person. Let’s just get that out there. I know the basics about computers, but if anything goes wrong I’m lost. However, despite my ignorance, I have a healthy respect for all the advantages it brings us.
Obviously, there’s the easily-accessed information. No more poring over stained library books until your eyes burn. But my favorite feature of technology is the communication. It all started with email—online letters. Before our western world knew what was happening, out popped chat rooms, facebook, and skype. My 7th grade health teacher scared me out of chat rooms with horror stories about cyber-stalkers. But of the others, I am a devoted follower.
Just yesterday, I was sitting at home thinking up every good excuse to put off my homework, when I remembered Skype. Minutes later, I was sitting at the family computer “video-calling” my sister Angie. She has lived in Anchorage, Alaska for 4 years, and with a distance like that, we can’t visit more than a few times each year. While we talked, she held her 6-month old daughter up to the camera so I could see how much she’s grown. We couldn’t talk for long— you can’t procrastinate forever—but while we did, we saw each other face-to-face. That degree of connection would have been impossible just a few short years ago... Long story short, I love the 21st century. And much as I hate viruses and technological dead-ends, it’s worth the head-ache a million times over.