Technical Boomeritis
I am having a lot of problems with my contacts–people who tend to be my age or older. It is nothing that ought to bother them, but it does. I set up my business phone on Skype. I got a phone number in my area code and fax service–a fax number that I can put on my business card and the ability to send faxes if I scan a document in. I only did that because so many of the people I do business with still use fax. I personally do not. Anyway, all of this costs me about $70 a year.
What it means is that my business number is portable. I can access it using my laptop from any place where I have an Internet connection–including Dunkin Donuts.
I also have the capability with my new Skype-based number of sending my business calls to my cell. I tested it the other day and it works fine. It took me a while to get all of this set up, of course, but I got pretty much what I wanted–and then found out that Google Voice, soon to come out, does all of this and more and is, according to Google, completely free. Oh well.
My calls in or out are perfectly clear–that is not the problem. If I tell any of my contacts that I am answering their calls on a USB Handset on my laptop, they freak out. If I don’t tell them what I am up to, they don’t notice anything strange. Unfortunately, I have this tendency to tell them–and face the consequences.
The problem is that my friends freak out when I tell them what I am doing. They tend to be my age–or older. And they tend to see what I am doing as demonic. I do not really mind being something of an outlier, but this goes way beyond what I expected.
I am wondering if anyone can keep up with technology. I can’t, though I am ahead of my peers. There are times when I would just like all of it to stop–or, at least, slow down.
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