Technology or what I know of it...

I love technology. I love all the new things you can do with pictures online, I love having email and cell phones and IPODs. I love Shelfari - finally an alternative to dozens of little pieces of paper with book titles I want to read strewn all about. I love Tivo (or whatever its called now). I used to have to watch commercials- - the horror.
I guess what I love so much about technology and why I'm always willing to embrace the newest thing is that I can remember what it was like to not have it. I remember working a job w/o email and I remember when email was only internal like on some company server and it didn't go outside the company. I resisted the whole cell phone thing for ages. In August 1999, I was 7 months pregnant and I had a flat tire. Then I saw the reason for a cell phone! I can remember spending hours and hours making the perfect mixed tape for my car. Now its just click click click and there's the perfect playlist. Technology makes everything easier and it connects people faster. I find it fascinating. Do I understand it? Not really. But I also have never really understood how electricity works or what makes planes stay in the air and I certainly embrace that.
Here is my favorite thing though - maps online. I LOVE mapquest. Every time I travel from branch to branch, I do a mapquest just to see if there are any new roads open or whatever. I would say that I use mapquest at least 3 times a week, which is sort of weird - but its true. (And way more than that if I include using it for customers.) And I love mapmyrun.com to see how far a certain run route is. I love that. You used to have to get in your car and drive the route to see how far you were running. Now you just click on the route and it keeps totaling it up as you keep clicking. Brilliant!
A lot of things about technology are sort of vague and foggy to me though. Like how exactly does html work? I just don't get it. And why won't Outlook let us delete emails that we send? It has to ask permission to recall the email from the person you sent it to. Hello, the whole point is I don't want them to read it. Twitter makes no sense to me. Facebook is very confusing - its all jittery like myspace on redbull or something. And its very hard to keep up with all the new stuff but I guess as librarians, that's our job - and its usually fun -so that works.