Your life without a computer: what does it look like? Via The Daily Post (January 27th 2016)
My life without a computer would be a lot slower but I’d probably sleep better.
I’d watch less films and I wouldn’t know anything new-wise very quickly as I never read a newspaper and seldom watch the news. Wrong or right, Twitter tends to be my go-to headline generator (then the BBC News website for the deets).
I’d survive though because if all computers and handheld devices suddenly imploded, what choice would I have?
It’s not so hard to remember my life without a device permanently strapped to my hand. Believe it or not I didn’t really get into texting until about 2000, which admittedly is now sixteen years ago – and ‘Smart’ phones were a long way off then. Facebook wasn’t even a thing until 4 years later.
Thems were simpler times. No #selfies, no Instagram or Twitter, blogs were about but were only just begun (in style of The Carpenters). I went out then, drank and obsessed over boys – and then if I liked a boy I would have to exchange numbers and call him. UGH.
If I didn’t have the internet, my phone, my laptop to entertain me, would I be doing those things now? I don’t think so. Call it an age thing but I’m happy to be ensconced on a Friday night and if not with my techy bits then the television and a good book. I’d still try to avoid the phone.
Would I ‘create’ more? Perhaps. I always need to have something in my hands while I relax, that’s just how I roll. Would I knit/cross stitch or draw? Who knows.
Things have changed so much and I don’t personally want them to go back to the way they were. Sure, we could all do with having time off the grid but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with moving in the same direction as technology.
It baffles me when people of my generation and older struggle with social media, or actively avoid it. I love new apps and new stupid crazes. I love a phone upgrade.
Most of all I love my blog and I wonder truthfully where I would have been without it all these years. Sometimes it doesn’t bear thinking about.
A Voluptuous Mind 
It was so much harder to find new music without the internet. I’m not sure how much my life would be different, I’d probably just find other ways to waste my time. And I’d have to write in a journal again. Those are hard to keep track of for me.
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I think you’re right, we’d just go back to the way it was and it would be fine. I really miss writing a diary. I used to carry one with me everywhere. Ditto films, would be odd to have to wait for a preview on the television/at the cinema watching something else. Maybe going back wouldn’t be such a bad thing 😀
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I got my first mobile phone aged 11 and haven’t looked back. Like you say, I would survive, because what other choice is there? But really, I like my gadgets! Doesn’t do any harm to switch off and detatch every now and then I guess though! (One of these days I will try that. Maybe.) xxx
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My thing is putting it away before bed, I wind myself up! But I love a gadget too… and being able to stay in touch with lovely people such as yourself xoxo
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