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By kilax, March 10, 2009 5:22 pm

I love technology. But I hate how much it can control my mood. Examples:

• My laptop won’t turn on. I’m frustrated*.
• My laptop is frozen. I’m frustrated.
• The internet won’t connect. I’m frustrated.
• The internet is TOO slow. I’m frustrated.
• I forgot to charge my MP3 player. I’m frustrated.
• My heart-monitor watch battery is dead. I’m frustrated.
• The digital photo frame is frozen again. I’m frustrated.
• The universal remote is not working**. I’m frustrated.
• My cell phone won’t make calls. Or allow me to text anyone. Who cares…?

My cell phone decided to die out on me today. It wouldn’t work this morning, and now it won’t turn back on. This is probably the only piece of technology I should actually care about (since it could be useful in the case of an emergency)… but I don’t. I hate talking on the phone, and have a work BlackBerry if I really had to use it for an emergency.

But it made me think – I don’t like how impatient technology has made me become. I want things now now now. I always expect things to work. I get moody when they don’t. Should something inanimate control my moods? Probably not. But they do. That’s something to work on.

Update: Technology hates me. I got home and the garage door opener in my car and the keypad wouldn’t work to let me in the house. Ha. I think that might be because someone was messing around with the fuses though…?

*Frustrated can be interchanged with “pissed off” and “furious” in all of these examples.
**This could possibly be user error.