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I don’t use any of this stuff. It always felt ‘not right’ to me. It sounds really cool and “Jetson’s-ish” to speak to an inanimate object and have it react to you but somethin’ ain’t right, y’all. Sometimes ya gotta listen to your gut. There’s this:
And then there’s this:
This should help … a little:
What amazes me is things written about in my emails to friends and family – which are (or so I thought) private – becoming the next popup ad on the various websites. How does “the net”, how do “they”, know what’s in my emails??? I am in no way one of those ‘conspiracy theory’ people but when something happens with predictable frequency, you have to ask yourself some serious questions.
Despite my occasional statement that I prefer living under my rock, I don’t really. I know all this stuff has been in the news for years now but it seems to me it’s becoming less covert and almost boastfully overt. I have had cell phones – the cheap, pay as you go kind (there’s a term for them which slips my mind right now but the inference is that they can be used for nefarious purposes and then disposed of) – but always for one specific reason and never used for anything but that use. Like when traveling out of state, to call for help in the event of a breakdown; I had a cell phone specifically for our church as I was the ‘virtual’ secretary to take calls and relay to the priest. But I’ve never had a smartphone nor do I want one. My good friend Scott, who helped complete the cover of my book, runs his life on his phone; he’s a hairdresser and his phone takes appointments, quotes services prices, takes payments, and submits same to his bank. Whoa!!! T M I ! (too much information!).
There are a few people I would give my banking information to – they have proven over time to be trustworthy and have an eye out for my safety. I’ll be damned if I’ll let a phone know my banking information. A year before I retired, our cafeteria company changed hands and they brought in a kiosk through which you could pay for your food using your phone and banking information, and for ‘security’, you had to submit a thumbprint. Read that again – a THUMBPRINT. Who, in their right minds, would give complete strangers their thumbprint? Over half of the two thousand people who worked there, that’s who! Are you insane??? Have you lost your minds??? But they were completely unfazed by this. Eye roll. Not me, buddy; not now, not ever.
But what’s really frightening is … we suspect at some time in what is probably not the distant future, the Church will have to go underground again. We obviously can’t use cell phones to stay in contact and based on what I’ve already seen, emails won’t be a ‘safe’ form of communication, either. So. What do we do when we want to relay information we don’t want to share with the world? There must be an answer to that question but I’ll be damned if I know what it is.