Blogging in the now

Doesn't anyone read blogs anymore?

I don't. Or do so very rarely. Mostly those are occasions when I would have logged on to post something and manage to sneak in a few minutes to check on what others have written. Or I find a link in the few minutes I am on Twitter or Facebook and click on it.

Have I become busier than when I was bringing up two school going kids? 

I used to still find the time to pick up a book or switch on the personal laptop. Then the smartphone happened. In a few months (was it weeks), it changed my habits, my hobbies, my personality.

It did the same to my friends and my uncles, aunts, children and readers. We read what is ready available, which doesn't run into more than three lines, which doesn't take more than a few minutes.

So now I attempt to write, on a phone that completes and corrects my words for me. Soon it will start writing for me and posting in minutes. That has already happened to the readers- there are way too many machines commenting on my posts than people. Might as well get one to write for me; while I use the time to check some pics on insta. 

Mobile phones

What is it that gives any kid above four (or is it three or even two these days?) an intrinsic knowledge of how to unlock, operate, and find the games on any damn cell phone?

And that when I still have to ask for my husband’s help to set/restore the esoteric settings on my phone.

My Mom is worse off by an entire generation much to my kids’ frustration as they were teaching her how to add reminders on her phone.

Nani doesn’t know anything!

Now nobody gets away with that.

She is smart enough to use email and send you those e-cards with music and cartoons, isn’t she? (She was also smart enough to add my brother’s profile to Shaadi.com a few years ago, add his contact details, and keep the login information to herself.)

She doesn’t even know how to change her ring tone.

Yes, but she likes the one she has. And she doesn’t know what games she has because with her eyesight, she cannot play them anyway.

She knows only how to call and send messages because that is what she needs the phone for.

Oh but it is still such a waste!

Giving a mobile phone to a grown up.