Signs of Times
Published on Thu 13 June 2002
- You just tried to enter your password on the microwave.
- You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.
- You call your son's beeper to let him know it's time to eat. He e-mails you back from his bedroom, "What's for dinner?"
- Your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her web site.
- You chat several times a day with a stranger from South Africa, but you haven't spoken with your next-door neighbour yet this year.
- Your Grandmother asks you to send her a JPEG file of your newborn so she can create a screen saver.
- You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home.
- Every commercial on television has a website address at the bottom of the screen.
- You buy a computer and six months later it is out of date and now sells for half the price you paid.
- Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have five years ago, is cause for panic.
- Using real money, instead of credit or debit cards, to make a purchase would be a hassle and take planning.
- Cleaning up the dining room means getting the fast food bags out of the back seat of your car.
- Your reason for not staying in touch with family is that they do not have e-mail addresses.
- Your dining room table is now your flat filing cabinet.
- Your idea of being organized is multiple-colored Post-It notes.
- You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead of in person.
- You get an extra phone line so you can get phone calls.
- You disconnect from the Internet and get this awful feeling as if you just pulled the plug on a loved one.
- You get up in morning and go online before getting your coffee.
- You wake up at 5am to go to the bathroom, and check your e-mail on your way back to bed.
- You start tilting your head sideways to smile.
- You're reading this.
- Even worse; you're going to forward it to someone!