Do you fall into either extreme? Somewhere in the middle?

I am in the middle perhaps leaning towards the first. I have no fear nor anxiety about technology. I rely upon it however and if I have anxiety in relation to technology that is where it stands - gosh forbid if something breaks down.

[Loose Screw x 2]

I love technology but, I see the direction that it has taken and that we have become so dependent on it that we are really going to be in trouble some day when the grid goes down or a seriously nasty virus disables the things we take for granted. That's one reason I don't have a cell phone. I've learned to live without for so long that I can survive by my wits and luck.

Technophobe. My young kids teach me more about technology than I teach them. I find it overwhelming and unnecessary. I often long for the days before the internet and cell phones because life felt so much simpler.

[LiteraryLark]

I'm somewhere in the middle.

I'm only 25 and there's a lot about technology I don't understand. I swear by latops but now I have a chromebook and it's only use is for internet...it can't really do anything else. And I'm terrible at texting. Half the time I can't make voice to text work.

I feel like my grandparents ask me only the most basic questions about things they don't understand about technology, it's usually just figuring out which button to press and that I'm good at. I'm no techie, but my usual game plan on owning new technology is I go through each clickable to figure out what they do. I gave up on doing that because now if I have an issue I just google it.

[winter loneliness]

I am a MAC person so right clicks and PC stuff is different for me. I like technology. Lots of stuff to keep up with, though.

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I am given to remember my mother and how terrified she was of technology. If something wasn't plugged in even she was afraid to do so. She had a terrible time when the world stopped accepting cheques for shopping and had to instead pay strictly by cash retrieved only from a human teller at the bank. She worked retail and had no trust of the cash register so she kept a running sum of all transactions for the day. At the end of the day when she printed off the till log, if there was a difference she was convinced it was the register that was in error. She would spend hours after store closing reconciling the two. She was even afraid of a digital phone.

[Winter Berry]

I'm kind of a technophile, as in I love the internet, gaming, and am very good at making my computers do what I want them to do. I can even build and repair them. But I don't use major social media (I tried it and found it both annoying and toxic) and never warmed to mobile devices as much as most people my age. I also hate the technology they put in modern cars, as it's super-distracting and causes more accidents than it prevents, so I drive a much older car. I guess you could say I'm a mixture of technophile and technophobe. lol