This makes me think a lot about my skepticism towards social networking technology and the way it is taking over our lives. Now, as a healthy dose of fear rises into my belly, I will brief you on what what I think of technology as a whole, a humbling moment. Like so.

I don’t love technology, nope, nope I don’t. Instead, I will say I like it. I like it because it is interesting to me, because it is effecting my life in a number of ways that grows greater every day (or maybe I need to stop reading so much Techcrunch:),it also is effecting how I think of myself, how I behave, and how I think of people in my life. Because of this, I give technology my respect, as I would give to someone that I admire. Like Obama, for instance. I admire him and I like him, I even think he would make a great president. But, I do not love Obama, and I do not know Obama, in the same way I do not truly know technology, or how it is going to effect me, or those people in my life that truly mean a lot to me (especially those that are not yet old enough to know). Many times a day, I think about how technology is effecting my life. And though I do think about how the upcoming presidential election is going to effect my life, I acknowledge that after the vote, I am still going to go home, or go to work, and use technology in my daily life, in a much more personal way (Politics, for me, have never been something I am constantly in tune with, as I am triple skeptical of politicians.).

The Techcrunch article was about the ‘mobile’ future of social networking. And basically, what this means is, that we will pay attention to our cell phone devices more than we already do, for better, or for worse. This video will give you a taste:

Creepy? No?

When I went out to dinner with my friends parents, I had to bring up the notion of fear and skepticism towards new technology. I know that they experienced similar revolutions of scale, say Birth Control, or Television, when they were young, and easily admit that these things took time (and humility) to get used to.

I think that this guy really nails it here:

“Big ideas, are easily dismissed when they are not safe bets, and/or if they upset the existing balances of power”

Regarding the origins of skepticism towards technology, McConnell states, that when ideas are: “not safe bets” or that they “upset the existing balances of power” we are naturally inclined to feel uncomfortable about their influence on our lives. Now, I am not sure that technology does both of these things, but it certainly does one of them. Pick one. I’m sure you can be skeptic too.

By the way, here is my social security number, just in case you wanted to know whether or not I have a criminal background that isn’t mentioned on my Facebook profile….

555-55-5555 <—- it even looks like a phone number!

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