Question:
Technology is both a blessing and a curse. Email, Blackberries, texting, even online grading programs all have revolutionized how we work and communicate. But each has its downsides. What is your "pet technology peeve"? Email forwards? Pop-ups? Spyware? SPAM? There are so many options...
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CT
People who treat newbies like we're idiots if we don't 1) drop everything to try whatever the newest Web 2.0 tool is, 2) don't understand all its ramifications instantly.
Dubai
Nothing is a curse in the 21st centuary but the way we take/use these facilities. I hate to disagree with this point that we humans are marching quite a head of time. TIME is trying to catch up with us but it can't. Result: disaster all over the world: teens taking life of others, pregnant teens and what not. A common man who used to earn a meagre amount few years ago has been earning a huge amount, can afford to go places, can admit his kids in prestigious schools. He sees a very bright side of his life and forgets the roots where he came from. Its high time, I believe, to sit and contemplate about everything we do that we may not lose ourselves in the crowd. Go with time and we'll have umpteen opportunities to succeed.
GA
My number one technology pet peeve has to be email forwards without a doubt...especially those that say "if you cherish our friendship you will forward this to ten friends immediately." Grow up!
D. Thurman - Ambler, Alaska
Email fowards... Spam, and chating are the bane of my techno existance.... I love the technology and its hundreds of uses in my classroom, BUT my students are either one step ahead of me or so relentless in their effors to chat or sent mail that i spend 2 or 3 hours a week trying to block their much better efforts to beat me.... UGHHHHHHhhhhh life is good.... (i tell myself that every day...lol)
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