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Good points and welcome to goodblogs. Gardening. Aside from bowling, I love to do work in the garden--pretty sure that's a middle-age thing--and sometimes, I do feel too-tied to my computer. The rest of it, with the exception of Wii golf, I can do without and it can do without me. I am unable to manipulate a good many games on our Wii system. There was a time when my husband and I enjoyed movies, but lately, we cannot make it through a whole movie without snoring...LOL...Voted!

First of all I think you are a very good writer and secondly, you are right on in your points. I am glad we have technology and wonder how I would have survived without it. I am sure I would have been fine it's just so much easier with computers, scanners, faxes, cell phones and on and on. Please consider a viewing my newest post "Are you a mandated reporter?" I look forward to reading more of your work

A well-written, thoughtful piece. As a former English prof, I must give one pointer in punctuation: your introductory phrases and clauses need to be followed by a comma. For example, "Aside from giving you my personal life story(insert comma) the point I am trying to make is that digital media gives people the chance to do what would have never been feasible before." and "If it were not for Facebook (insert comma) I never would have been able to start my own sports website and gain a fan base when no newspapers, TV shows or radio shows would give me a chance." As for my relationship with technology, we don't have cable; we only watch movies occasionally. I don't have a smart phone and can't check emails or go online using my phone. I have limited texting. While I find what technology I do use to be helpful in networking and gathering information and find that technology often makes life easier, once foreign things more accessible, I would much prefer a face-face chat in a coffee house with the aroma of chai and espresso to online chatting any day. And I don't think more or easier which technology seems to make available is always better. Welcome to GoodBlogs, Clayton!

Clayton I have voted for your post becasue I like it very much. I would like to say welcome here to GoodBlogs. I am new here like you are. My Mother was here before and something happeend. I am not sure but I would like to try and just write here that is all. I hope that what ever happened with the break in to my Mother's computer can be forgotten and I can fit in here and just write. That is all I care about. If this is a problem that some of my friends came here to read and look around and vote I will ask them to stay away. I do not want to have a problem with others here.

i vote you good.

Clayton, my biggest complaint is calling a business and receiving a recorded voice on the other end of the line. LOL!

Hello Clayton and welcome to GB! I am with you in that I think technology is good and bad, but mostly good. If used correctly, it can be an amazing networking tool. Voted!

Clayton, This is a great topic question and you are a very good writer. I think you could have made it a little better by putting in more facts or personal opinions on the topic, but the prior comments are proof alone that the posting was great the way it was. My opinion on the subject is I do think people are too dependent on technology. I spend 8-9 hours a day on a computer for work and besides that I am always on my blackberry either texting someone, checking Facebook, looking something up on the internet or any of the other million things you can do on a phone nowadays. Along with that, my computer at home is always on to fill in for anything my blackberry can't do because it is too slow or too small. However, even though I know that I am too dependent, I refuse to be less dependent on technology due to the fact that I do not want to fall behind. I think it is safe to say that the majority of people, at least in this country fall into the same category as I and nobody wants to spend 10 seconds writing out a math problem when you can spend 2 on a calculator. Who wants to write out a letter by hand, find an envelope, buy a stamp and wait a week for a response when you can call, text, email or facebook the person and get the same result in 20 minutes? When you get a research assignment, do you really want to go to the library and search through hundreds of thousands of books to find one that is useful, then handwrite the info you need out of it and all the sited information? I don't think people even realize that the libraries are filled with technology too. If you actually went to the library, you wouldn't search through hundreds of thousands of books, you would sit at a computer, do some searching in a database and it would tell you right where the needed book is and if it is even available or not. Then when you found the book, you would scan or copy the pages you want and just attach them to the back of your research paper. The world did manage without all of this technology, and I believe more people were more intelligent then because they had to do so much more to get the results they wanted. If they wanted to know something, they couldn't pull out their blackberry, type it into Google and call it good, they had to research. This reasearch is what lead to our technology today. Now, I would never say our population is dumb, because we come out with new technology everyday and are always improving, but "back in the day" it took so much more effort. People are getting lazy and I do believe it was mentioned above that technology has been directly related with the increase in the populations obesity. Alright, well that is all I have for now. Thanks for the great topic Clayton.