When you jump in the water get ready to swim

Seems like every new technology we assimilate brings with it more new learning and responsibilities . . .

Last week when I was out of the office and needed some information I sent a text message via cell phone to a colleague back in the office. Trouble is, she wasn’t as adept at text messaging as I thought she would be, techno-savvy as she is. She said she was surprised to even get a text message. Well, she got a real quick crash course from another staffer, I got my info post-haste, and never would have known except that she told me that she now knows a whole lot more about text-messaging than she did before.

My colleague’s quick-learning experience was an example of what has happened to all of us as Communication 2.0 has become a ubiquitous part of our lives. When all I thought I was doing was writing a blog, I found that site feeds were an integral part of the process. Several years ago, I when I taught my mother (now a techy senior citizen) E-mail, I warned her not to give out her E-address unless she was ready to commit to reading it. Sure enough . . . . she got important messages and almost missed them due to not regularly logging on. Another family member loves his cell phone, but his kids know better than to leave him a voice message, because remembering how to retrieve them is just too much bother for his Luddite brain.

So, the moral of the story is ----- If you give a Mouse a Cookie or a Moose a Muffin or . . . .