Trying to catch up already - this technology that gives us so much, also takes away time!
Technology that has made the most difference to me is communicating with friends and family. Instant messaging allowed me to chat every few days with my friend when she was living in Seattle. I can see travel photos from my sister in London and have renewed contact with friends in Melbourne through Facebook. I love that I can tell my mother in BOP about something on the phone, and then email her a photo of what we talked about .
I resisted using a digital camera but now couldn't do without it - the facility to see what you have taken before printing a photo is great, share them with friends, print individual pictures as you need them and being able to resize and crop. I even use it to remind me of things like a layout for a quilt or scrapbook page while I'm working on them.
Email is great for the immediacy it brings, although I do sometimes feel I waste time managing my email accounts. (Then again, it is the best when I'm notified about concert ticket sales or cheap flights.)
Study is much easier when you can get information over the net and support from tutors and fellow students.
Technology in the form of internet shopping does save me time in the long run as I'm a convert to online supermarket shopping. No more queues or lugging shopping to the car, and I spend less as I'm not tempted by special offers!
That is probably the only time saver though - I am very good at getting sidetracked once I am able to get on the home computer - just as well I have to share it with the rest of the family otherwise I would be there all day.
I look forward to finding out what other applications there are on the Web, and ways I can use them to suit me.
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I think email is the greatest thing and wouldn't be without it but it's ironic that it can also be such a big time-waster. I now find that I sometimes have to work somewhere away from my own PC (where I can't access my email) because email constantly distracts me from whatever task is at hand. I also find that I do txts on my mobile, when a phone call would take a quarter of the time. Funny, huh?
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