http://www.slashgear.com/the-analog-geek-1197300/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Thu, 17 May 2012 17:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.slashgear.com/the-analog-geek-1197300/#comment-66693 Ricky Cadden Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:22:03 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=97300#comment-66693 My parents aren’t far off, but they’re actually getting better as they get older. They both now carry the Motorola Backflip (it was to protect them from the iPhone, and yes, I said ‘protect’ – leave it alone). My dad is getting further along, he’s figured out how to customize and that sort of thing, whereas my mom, try as she might, just can’t get ahold of it. Sure, she can surf the internet and that sort of basic thing, but her homescreens are a mess (I don’t think she realizes she has 5 different ones yet), and her phonebook is absurd. She still saves names in special ways to dictate how they appear in the lineup – a throwback from the SIM card days. Each contact is presented multiple times (cause SIM cards can only store one number per name), and might have a few extra ‘AA’s at the beginning, so they appear first.

]]> http://www.slashgear.com/the-analog-geek-1197300/#comment-65936 MaryBeth Williams Lowell Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:33:52 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=97300#comment-65936 Loved reading this and I could definitely relate with my parents and in-laws. We’re a different generation – and (tech geeks) may even a subset of a different generation – but I’m already quite aware that my kids will think of me the same way we think of Bob – with a lot of amazement and eye rolling. But at the end of the day, our life experiences will all be different depending on what we are exposed to and understand. I’m not sure one is better than the other (to your point about Bob carrying the rope) so I hope my kids appreciate me as I appreciate my parents and grandparents. I hope our generation (and our kids’) isn’t too caught up in technology and can still enjoy some of the bigger things in life.

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