Yes, I appreciate the irony of writing a screed against the tech industry on a blog. Haha. Laugh if you will. But it's a small price to pay in order to get my message out. What is my message, you ask? Through my blog, I will plead with the neo-evangelists of the tech persuation to leave me the F alone. To get out of my face. To stop forcing all of us normal humans to brand ourselves, for cripes sakes. If I wanted to brand myself, I'd have my initials seared into my butt by now.
And let me say this: although my fellow tech-haters may be small in number (now), we are loud of voice and strong of will and we will never, ever stop until every person promises to only check Facebook once a day. Promises to shut the hell up about their stupid iPhone. Or, at least, promises to stop talking about The Social Network movie. Seriously guys, please stop.
Each week I plan to post an entry about a new app or device everyone is madly in love with, but which is obviously stupid. Think of the postings as invitations back to the grown-up world. I will enlist, be they willing, fellow tech-haters to write guest spots so you can see that I'm really not some lone nutjob shaking his fist at the sky. We are a silent majority of people who hate social media, and we are tired of having ex-girlfriends trying to friend us on Facebook.
See you soon. And please do not Tweet this or share it on Facebook or any other dumb thing. Just click the orange X up in the right-hand corner of your screen like a normal person. Thanks.
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