Thumb Typing, What Would Our Grandparents Think?

For those of us tagging on to the end of the baby boomer crowd, the concept of thumb-typing and texting in general can be a daunting task.  One has to keep in mind that this crowd remembers party lines, cheap gas, expensive gas, cheap gas again, fear of Russian attack, and a whole slew of other scary, alarming, and just plain odd things.  So, we're not opposed to the unusual, we are after all, the generation who brought marijuana to the top of the list of "Just Say No!" Campaigns, were the last generation to have both of our parents in our home at the same time and many more shocking achievements.  How, then, can the effort of trying to type using only one's thumbs be such a big deal?  We saw men on the moon (may not have believed he got there, perhaps the government was tricking us, etc, but we saw it), we saw chain gangs, we maybe even heard stories of people who knew people who knew the KKK.  Just craziness.  So, deciding that I was much tougher than this Texting Giant that was keeping me out of communication and thus uninformed, I decided to do my blog using only my thumbs.  How did I do?  Well, you never saw the blog.  I never got it uploaded because my thumbs were cramping me so bad I thought I would die! 

Sometimes you just gotta know when you've been beaten.  I will be doing all future blogs on an actual keyboard, with real keys, using all my fingers.  It just makes sense that way!

Do you have a funny story about thumb-typing or mobile communication?  Share them!  It would comfort me to know I am not alone!


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