I Sometimes Hate Technology

"You have a new memory" the smart aleck of an iphone announced.

No I don't. It has done this a couple of times and every time, I curse.

Memories are sweet when it is my own mind going down the lane of nostalgia. It is quite another being dragged there by a stupid iphone that thinks it has grown its own brain. I find it creepy and downright intrusive. Who gave it the bloody right to do this?

Ok. So I'm a dinosaur who still doesn't know what the heck the icloud is. I have had the misconception that the icloud would absolve the need for a physical backup but how wrong I was. I learnt it the hard way. A few years back, I deleted all my photos on my iphone thinking I could retrieve them from the miraculous cloud. To my horror, it could not be done. Until today, this nebulous icloud still clouds my mind and it brings with it a whole lot of negative feelings.

I'm just not good with tech stuff and I find myself cursing if I have to update my iOS or WTF those things are. I don't even understand why I have to keep updating them. Or why people keep changing their phones to the latest model. Don't they make phones to last at least twenty years any more? And if that phone just lasts two years, why the heck am I forking out so much for it? I feel that we've all been taken for a ride.

They might as well just take my brain. Sigh.