Reality Bites!!

When my eldest son asked me, what should he put his status as in his facebook profile, I just said “student”. “Mom there is no such status, it’s either single, couple or married” he replied. It’s like a lightening strike to me that, at the age of 10 he was thinking about his status as either single or couple or married instead of his status as being a “primary 4 student”. Or, am I being “old fashion” because of my ignorance of facebook? I do not oppose to facebook but I do not feel that facebook is important to me. A lot of my friends urged me to open up facebook account, and the best part is my best friend created a facebook account for me and added our other friends into my facebook account. She advised me to change the password she created for me at the first place. I do visit my facebook account once a while……yet I don’t feel any attachment to it. It makes me wonder why some people are so engrossed and can't live their life without facebook? Some says, facebook is important to catch up with old friends or get new friends or be updated with our friends or family members or even for business purposes. So what is it for me? Why do I need to do that? If I want to catch up with friends, I’d rather call, talk or meet them personally then commenting on facebook while other friends can see comments not intended for them. One of my friend told me that its because I’m not used to facebook…..that’s why. Is that so?

 Anyhow, at this moment I am not a “facebook” person and not so much “IT Oriented Person”. I consider myself not as much as an “IT Oriented Person” compared to my best friend who majored in IT, working as an IT consultant, whose idol is the late Steve Jobs, who is always up to date with latest Apple gadget, who likes Rakuten on-line shopping, who knows how this “invisible data” travels around the world, who’s daily life evolve around gadget for travelling, shopping etc. I think I am an “IT Oriented Person” because I surf the Internet for various informations related to my office work, on-line newspapers, on-line banking, shopping on-line (books only), warehouse sales locations,education material purposes and etc. I may not be “IT Oriented Person” because I’m not gadget oriented and I don’ have the latest smartphone, iphone, ipad or whatever. I don’t surf anywhere or everywhere, I surf when I “want” to surf.

If the distinction between “IT Oriented Person” and “Non-IT Oriented Person” is the ability to use the Internet for extracting information, I may say I am at par with this friend of mine. However if being “IT Oriented Person” means to posses the latest information communication gadget, know all the functions of applications on the gadgets, I would say I am below par. So, to me it’s the perceived distinctions that defines the IT orientedness of a person.

A few of my friends have their own blog? Does that make them a better IT oriented person? Sometimes I like to read other people's blog but I don’t have the inclination to have my own blog until this “moment of truth” where I have to create a blog for MIS 750 assignment. This is my first attempt to be part of the Internet world. Perhaps by having my own blog, I can be a better IT Oriented Person. . If there are people like me out there, don’t be discouraged or ashamed if you are not a “facebook” person or non-IT Oriented Person. There is always the first time to everything. The important thing is to face the moment of truth. We may not be expert in IT but we can be better.