I love making scrapbooks, but until now I’d always done them the old-fashioned way with printed pictures, other items I wanted to include, glue & scissors. I recently finished my first digital scrapbook and opted to get a printed version…
Category: Digital Dilemma
When Smartphones Make Us Dumb
From the first moment I turned on my smartphone I was enchanted. Upon activating, the device emitted a strange, though not unpleasing, ethereal noise as an electric blue swirl flashed on the screen. I resisted buying one until 2013. As predicted,…
Tracking Toxic Relationships
I recently heard about a new app called pplkpr, pronounced “people keeper”, to help you keep track of your emotions when interacting with people. It’s designed to help you discover patterns and trends in your emotional state based on who…
Over and Out
A friend of mine was telling me about a particular annoyance with communicating via text. Her challenge, it seemed, was that she could never tell when the conversation was over. She never knew when she was supposed to respond or just let…
Textual Relations
I first started texting in 2001 when I spent 6 months in Paris as an exchange student. Everybody texted because it was cheaper than calls. When I returned texting didn’t catch on until a while later. Now texting is one of the…