Lindsey Rae Writes the Day...Blindly technology obsessed
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<p class="p1">I never realized how much technology I relied on.</p><p class="p1">I read all kinds of articles explaining to adults how young people are addicted to the internet and technology and I say to myself, “I’m the minority. I could easily go without it for a few days.”</p><p class="p1">These last few days have shown me how incredibly wrong I am.</p><p class="p1">I recently went on vacation and got the dreaded text message “you have reached 75 percent of your data for this cycle.”</p><p class="p1">That’s fine. I’m on vacation, I don’t need it anyway. Just 10 more days and it will restart.</p><p class="p1">I suddenly got the urge to snapchat my toes in the water and all the wonderful food I was consuming. </p><p class="p1">I couldn’t. </p><p class="p1">Then, we had the dreaded 10 hour drive ahead of us. </p><p class="p1">Did I bring a book? No. </p><p class="p1">Did I bring an iPod? No. </p><p class="p1">I was solely relying on my conversations with my family and my cell phone, which was useless without any data. </p><p class="p1">I eventually caved and checked Facebook and played my games every once and a while, hoping I wouldn't go over my data limit.</p><p class="p1">Eventually, I opted sleep would pass the time away faster.</p><p class="p1">Now, back at home, I’m thankful for my wifi and I’m consuming all the content I can within my four hour window between coming home from work and bed time.</p><p class="p1">Speaking of internet, one of my many jobs here at The Gazette-Democrat is to update our website and manage our social media presence. </p><p class="p1">Well, our internet decided to go out Wednesday afternoon. That was ok. I had a few stories to retype and took the rare opportunity to clean out my desk.</p><p class="p1">However, when I came in Thursday morning, the day I usually spend most of my time updating the website and our social media, I found out the internet was still unavailable. I had two options.</p><p class="p1">One- sit at my desk, hoping some press releases would come in (oh wait, that can’t happen. We don’t have email.) Or two- find somewhere with internet to perform my daily duties. I opted for option two.</p><p class="p1">As I drove to my internet-filled location, I pondered that when I was born, the internet was just becoming available to the general public. </p><p class="p1">Literally, over half my job didn’t exist when I was born. That’s such an interesting thought to me.</p><p class="p1">How many other jobs didn’t exist 22 years ago? </p><p class="p1">-Social media analysts/manager.</p><p class="p1">-SEO specialist</p><p class="p1">-App designer/developer</p><p class="p1">-Bloggers</p><p class="p1">-Data miner</p><p class="p1">-Digital marketer</p><p class="p1">This list goes on for a while. Makes you wonder, would your job exist without the internet/technology? Or, how different or more difficult would your job be?</p><p class="p1">Shameless plug, like our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/gazettedemocrat and follow us on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/gazettedemocrat" target="_blank">@gazettedemocrat</a>.</p>