When the technology lets you down!!!!!
Nowadays, we are sorrunded by many forms of advanced technology. Many of us have computers, hold a mobile phone or a pocket pc in the trousers pockets, keep flash memory in hand bags, take photos with digital cameras, ........etc. These fancy devices are supposed to make our life easier and that makes us depend on modern technology all the time. But what if I tell you that some of these gadgets can let you down and ruin your life? Ther is an old proverb in English, "The friend in need is the friend in deed". Well, what my computer and mobile, for example, do is very opposite to a friend action.
When I was student I used to deal with the computer breaking down suddenly and in critical times. I had to spend long nights trying to figure out many problems happened without a just reason during finishing urgent works. Last month, my younger sister, by the way I have also a brother, was writing her college assignment. She spent 2 days to gather information and 5 long hours typing the report using the Microsoft Word. Unfortunately, and before writing the last page, a strange error message appeared and the computer shut down without any warning. Yes, the work of 5 hours vanished just like that. What do you expect my sister to do?!!!! Of course she bursted in tears and had to rewrite the report with the tears on her cheaks because the report had to be handed the next day. . Yesterday, also, I had to contact the internet service provider to fix a technical problem that cut the internet connection for three days. Besides, I can't count the number of times my mobile phone turned off during an important call.
Sometimes, I feel that what happened and happens is, somehow, intentional and these devices do these crimes against me with cold blood because they know that I can't afford discarding them right now. I know that some of you think that this is a stupid illusions, but I wish that I can treat these idiots like humans and give them a piece of my mind!!!!!
How about you? Don't be scared and share with me your experiences with these silent foes.
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From flu victim to flu friend! Roger!!!!!:)
Thanks Rachel for your post. I am very glad that you like the photos and I hope I could make you any favour you want. By the way, I liked the humming sound you made in the back ground of your fantastic video. Don't be ashamed from something like that. It's a sighn of you that makes your videos unique. Finally, thanks alot for your advices about collocations,but could you, please, give me the model answers of your challenge because it's hard to find the right answers for these mind binding puzzels!!!!!!!!!
Thanks again Rachel.
For the rest of you, thanks alot for your comments and I hope you have liked the photos.
Comments
Hello Jihad! I am going to share with you my averseness to all above mentioned devices with a pleasure. I sit and watch the screen on all my working hours which make my eyes a neck and almost the whole body suffer a lot. In addition, I am not very good at using what it offers so I came to the point it doesn´t make my life happier and a couple of month befor decided not to continue in having internet service at home. That is good to learn a good english, look what it goes in MM in NY or The National Gallery London (Thanks Anita to the link in December!!)and to watch what people around the world produce in art. But then, time flies and there is probably no time to find for your own active work or relaxation. It depends on us how much press of technology we let to master over us. Bussiness make all so oppessive, that´s that! My honest sorry to your sister trouble. Pure unjustice! May I ask if you´ve got a hobby except the pharmacy?
Hi Hijad, How are you? You're not alone in this technological and dependent world. I learned to save my work every minute when I'm working on the PC because a lot of times it let me down. Everytime that something like this happens to me I remember how difficult it was when computers didn't exist. On the other hand, I totally agree with Marianna. Have a nice day. Cris
Hi Mohammed, I have a personal computer at home and I use to watch movies on it, but in the middle of the movie it doesn´t work, and there´s nothing I can do to fix it. I have to turn off the p.c and forget about the movie. It´s really bad how this happens in our lives. a few years ago nobody had a computer, a cell phone or something like that. today we can´t live without this stuffs. I am sorry if I wrote something wrong, it´s jus t because I am in my third semester english course. bye
Hi Jihad, what's going on? IT are a good support for our daily lifes. Problems appear when we need them a lot. Through my work experience I've realised that when you set up some improvement, you are changing the source of the problem. Here with the use of IT we get a more relaxed way of life but...... sometimes when the support drops we feel in the midle of nowhere. Your sister had very, very bad luck. It's a pity. See you pal, Toni.
Hi Jihad. I stay in a mountain region in the north of Italy and so I know very well this kind of problems... My village is not reached by internet broadband and for me it's very difficult to have easy exchanges by WEB. My expectation for the future is that digital divide will be overcomed and that also the peripheral communities could stay connected with the world
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Hi Muhammad I just read your new entry about electronics and I absolutely agree with you. I would say there is always good and bad sides to everything. Even though we some times have problems with these new technologies but there are more positive sides to it than negative. Think about how people interact with each other these days and how it is easier look for queries that we don't know the answer to. For example, if someone gets sick with some sort of disease that they don't know much about it, they can always turn to internet to find out about it. They can also find out what sort of treatments are available. I am so sorry about your work. It is very frustrating when something like this happens, it happened to me a couple of times but we have to deal with it. Computer also give us a lot of benefits. Take care Rabail UK
Hi Mohammed I am accepting your comments,it may happend to anyone, once my phone stucked about two weeks it never received any calls and take any calls, but the funnest thing is all other functions are functioned. I was so annoyed.Thanks for all and help me to learn English
Asallamu alleykum bro Hamza. I stay in a mountain region in the north of malaysia and so I know very well this kind of problems... My village is not reached by internet broadband and for me it's very difficult to have easy exchanges by WEB. My expectation for the future is that digital divide will be overcomed and that also the peripheral communities could stay connected with the world
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