That's easy! You know your getting old when you don't like anything in the world today. Lets see, first there might be music. If you don't like "today's" music your probably getting old. I don't like most if any music of today. I might by accident hear something I like but most of the time I don't even listen to the radio anymore.
Or how about TV, what is it you watch? I don't watch much TV because there are to many commercials which a lot of I don't even understand. I don't like sitcoms, realty shows and talk shows anymore. I do like real detective shows and a good movie which most movies anymore are crap. I really found out about all the crap movies when VHS first came out. You would see the picture on the box which looked good then read the discription of the movie which sounded good, but when watching it, the move was crap.
Then there is the question of what ever happened to "metal"? Everything these day's are made of plastic. Remember the big heavy chrome bumpers on cars?. Now days they don't even really have bumpers, just some piece of plastic curved under the front of the car which if it scraps on something gets torn off.
Then there are electronics, why do they try to stuff everything the can into an electronic gadget? I think a lot of us first ran into trouble with electronics when you tried programming your first VCR to record something.
Even the radio in my Jeep is kind of a pain in the butt. It seems we went backwards rather then forwards when it comes to car radios. The really old tube type radios you had to wait a bit for the tubs to warm up and even after they did they had a tendency to drift off station, more so with weaker stations. Then transistors came out and you turned on your radio and it was on and stayed on frequency. Now were into computer chips and radios do a lot of different things, but guess what, you turn on the radio and you have to wait again until the radio does a self check, etc.
As with all electronics of today, how much of what they can you do, do you really use? I think most of us just use the basic things of the electronics we use, most of what they can do will never use. Yes, there are some people who will learn everything they can about an electronic gadget, as for me other then the basics, I only use something if I need too.
Then there are commercials which kind of killed the fun of watching TV, and now they are doing the same thing with the Internet and cell phones. I believe a lot of people that use cell phones see's and app that they are interested in but don't realize all the info about them that the app is going to collect about them. They might collect all your email contacts, your pictures, where you been on the web, etc., etc. and they can use what they collected for whatever purpose they want to because you agreed to it when you installed the app. On top of that most of these apps won't allow you to delete what they collected, while other you have to request them to delete it.
Yea, ok, I admit I'm getting old and I don't like where the world is or has been heading for a long time. There is just way, way to much info collected about people these days.
Then there is one more thing I really don't like, "using "clouds" to store your stuff on. When you store stuff on a cloud you have no idea who might have access to it. Of course a lot of cloud services say it's encrypted, but is it really? And do they really not have access to it? I think I have only two files stored on a cloud and both files are compressed and password protected with a big long password that would take thousands of years for a computer to crack.
Besides that, what's mine I want to keep it mine and have access to it no matter what. If you keep all your "stuff" on an external hard drive you always have access to it. If your Internet goes down or the cloud service goes down, your out of luck.
What it all comes down to is they made the world and the things we use to complicated anymore, then pitch in the ads, commercials, personal data collecting, and people lying to get you to use or pay for there services, it's all comes down to in some way taking a bite out of your wallet.
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