In the technology world

I am sitting here listening to my Itunes, have Facebook as one of my windows and also typing on my blog and I think to myself "what has the world come to these days? so many people are multitasking on the computer!" I remember the talk that one of the guest speakers gave at my college graduation about how he would see his daughter(a fellow classmate of mine) on the computer writing a paper, IMing, texting on the phone with the Itunes on. How can we do so many things with technology? You would think we'd get confused and IM something you meant to text someone on the computer something you were going to type in a paper. But I guess the best of us can do that kind of multitasking!
But what did we do with out technology? I grew up in the 80's with record players, then tape recorders and CD players. We had VHS's where you actually had to rewind to get to a part you want to watch again and deal with it getting stuck in the VCR. We had big phones too in the 80's and 90's! No cell phones, if you needed to get a hold of someone, you called them at their house and left a message if they weren't there. I also remember the car phone, a fad that didn't last too long.
Now what do we have? Cell phones that play music, text, talk, look up directions, take pictures, ect. On every news show or talk show, they advertise Facebook or Twitter to get the latest news. I remember last year, i was at the airport and on the TV they had the latest news about the Iraq election. One of the reporters talked about how Iraqis would write on Facebook about hating the new President which caused chaos and there they were saying to get the latest breaking news on the election, go to their Facebook page. To get latest breaking news about something as important on an Iraqi election, you had to go to Facebook! Once a social networking tool for college students, where you can find old friends, keep in contact with all of your friends and keep updated on their lives. Now this is a site where politicians, celebrities and important figures across the world can go on. Once something so small is now bigger than we have imagined!
But I guess with how our world is today, to be considered "in", you have to know what these things are.
Now, i am not saying its a bad thing and I don't go on it. I am on Facebook a lot, and I enjoy it. I enjoy seeing what my old friends are up to, my family are up to, and keeping up with the world, since I don't have TV. But sometimes I think it has taken over the world, kind of like how Wal-Mart seems to take over the world. It adds more and more things which brings its costumers in, such as the applications and always changing to "be better". But has anyone noticed that hackers have taken advantage of our innocence in the world wide web and has spread bad links by doing this? Latest one I have found was the "who's looking at your profile" application. Once one person clicks on the link, everyone will click on it and what does it do? It adds all of this unwanted "crap" onto your page, just by clicking on one simple link. Hackers are good at this because they KNOW we will fall for anything. If it looks good, you'll buy it, kind of thing.
Just like when you go to a store. What are you most likely to buy, something that doesn't really stick out to you or something that sticks out to you with all of its fancy advertising and packaging? Or when you get spam mail, of course you will be tempted to clink on a link that says "YOU WON A MILLION DOLLARS, CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE!" Who wouldn't want to click on something that appealing? But that is why hackers seem to win these wars all of the time, we keep falling for these traps.
Hopefully, by now though, the majority of us have figured out that its all a scam. Don't click on something that you don't know what it is.(sounds similar to, don't talk to strangers or don't eat something you don't want know. funny how these things are tie into each other) But we are curious creatures and curiosity has often killed the cat, but sometimes it has lead to bigger and better things. It's all in the luck of the draw or maybe just common sense plays right along with it.
Not sure what I am trying to say with this. It just amazes me though, how technology can often play with our minds and make us believe something that isn't real, trick us almost.
People living with out the many wonderful things technology has given us, have survived so far, so if they can, maybe we can?
We should all try it sometime, go a day or two or even a week with out a computer, cell phone, Iphone or Ipod and see what happens? Might be kind of cool!
PS. as i did spell check on this, it is telling me that "texting" is not a word. point proven.