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<\/a>I confess that I\u2019m tired of setting up online accounts. I\u2019m tired of creating passwords. You can\u2019t do anything anymore without setting up an account. For instance, I just want to get scores from the ESPN app. I don\u2019t want to customize my experience because I don\u2019t care that much. I\u2019m going to use this thing to check scores while I\u2019m out and about,\u00a0maybe\u00a0six or seven Saturdays during college football season tops, and I\u2019m happy to give ESPN my patronage. But, I want to monitor a college football ticker without signing in. Is that too much to ask? Theoretically I can use the app without signing in, except for the fact that their app is constantly asking me if I want to create an account, or sign-in using my Facebook account. Every time my finger touches the screen something pops up to ask me if I\u2019m finally ready to fork over my personal information or not.<\/p>\nWhen I finally give in and create an account for whatever thing I wanted to just do without\u00a0signing-in, signing-up, or creating an account, I diligently and carefully tick\/un-tick all of the boxes regarding emails, special offers, or push announcements. I don\u2019t want any more of these than I have to have. But I still get them. When a vendor offers you a box that says \u201cdon\u2019t send push emails,\u201d don\u2019t believe them. They don\u2019t care about you or your stupid inbox. You\u2019ll get their emails and like it.<\/p>\n
I know the reply\u2013This is done in order to protect your privacy. It\u2019s not that big of a deal, just create the account. Get used to it. This is the way the world is going to be from now on\u2013but I am tired of the rationale. I have create-an-account fatigue. I don\u2019t want to sign-in anymore. And the signing in with your Facebook account option? That one really ticks\u00a0me off. Who knows what kind of jacked up personality profile algorithm Facebook has going on all of us? I\u2019m sure they know me better than I know myself. They should just create an app I that will tell me where\u00a0I want to eat today. It\u2019ll probably be more decisive than I am, and maybe more effective.<\/p>\n
I confess that I sometimes feel like I\u2019m teetering on the edge of the technological cliff. At some point, some twelve year old kid is going to brush by me too fast, and I\u2019ll\u00a0be over the edge. From that point on I will never be able to watch television again without help from my kids. Technology, we\u2019re told, has the power to rewire our brains. What if my\u00a0brain is\u00a0recalcitrant? What if I start to become so slow that I can\u2019t keep up with the herd? Luckily, the late middle-aged still has the most purchasing power, so I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll still have a place in society for a couple of decades. But the end is coming. I can sense it.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m mostly joking, but this is actually a real fear for me. I think my grandma is a remarkable woman. When I was young she would tell me stories about the dust bowls in Kansas, the great depression, and what it was like during WWII with a husband overseas. She kept up with the pace of change through an awful lot considering that when she was young the console stereo was cutting edge. We\u2019re talking\u00a0pre-telephone & television, much less the digital age. I think she lost track of technology about the time every grandchild got a laptop. She learned to navigate the personal computer, but it has never been comfortable. So, at what point will I be left behind? It seems cruel that a person\u2019s ability to take part in the popular culture could fall victim to progress and planned obsolescence.<\/p>\n
I always want to retain the ability to change and grow, so maybe it\u2019s good. Living things flex. Only the dead are brittle. We change and grow and learn and adapt or we eventually break. But when the mind is involved\u2013processing styles, neural pathways\u2013it sometimes feels as though my will, my desire to change and grow, has less and less to do with whether or not I can keep up. I have to wonder if, at some point my intuition will have been formed in such a by-gone era that I will be comprised of fully incompatible equipment. Will I be expected to go for a walk some cold winter\u2019s night and not come back? I suppose it\u2019s possible.<\/p>\n
What if the only constant is change? What if even God changes? The Hebrew people were certain that God did change, and yet was the same, was always faithful.\u00a0So I set up my accounts, and save my passwords, and I try not to use the same freaking password in every single time. I try to learn about new technology and to not be afraid to try new things.<\/p>\n
Okay, that\u2019s my confession for this Monday. Time for yours:<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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