The 'Turtle' in the Globalized World

Many times, I feel that my attitudes towards IT are quite at odd with other people, esp. my friends. No, I am not saying that IT is bad or unnecessary, but I just don't like it much because it often makes me frustrated. To make it clearer, let's talk about some of the hottest current IT issues, Facebook.

A year ago, the word 'social network' had not yet come across my mind, not until I heard it from my pears in the Microcomputer class. I was thinking that they must be crazy spending hours a day looking at other people's photos, video clips, non-sense comments and notes, or playing those stupid games in Facebook, etc.  Can't they find other more constructive activities to enjoy themselves?
Later on, I had to swallow all my words about these because I became addicted to the Facebook myself !?!

It's not because my opinions had suddenly been changed but it is simply that I didn't want to be left out when my friends were talking about something they post in their webboards. Yes, and that's the starting point!

Initially, I love answering the psychological quizzes most because I think they're funny and sometimes provide meaningful results. Then, I learnt to explore other features in the site and found that they are all interesting and fun.

Despite my pleasurable experience on IT (or FB in particular), I still can't get rid of my prejudice about it. This maybe due to my low-tech family. You know, MS-DOS, Windows 95 & 98 computers are still being used for the office works (-*-). They aren't updated or changed because they contain important data and are still working well (although very slowly). The other two computers (luckily) use Windows XP and are for my brother and me to surf on the internet.

Until now, I dare not download or install any unfamiliar programs or files by myself as I'm afraid that the computer will hang (as it usually does). Then, I will be blamed for my fault (not because the computers are too old and never updated for yearsss, no effective anti-virus programs being installed, or the RAM has too low capacity....) When the situations like this happen more and more frequently, I 'automatically' turn my back to most of IT issues as they make me feel bad and annoying. For me, IT products are something complicated that should not be touched except when it's necessary!