How Do They Survive?
You’ve heard of a “generation gap”…these days, I think at times it’s a “generation chasm”.
Latest example…I had to get a new radio station cell phone. I had no problem with the old one…after all, I’d been carrying it for seven years and while it no longer took certain apps that were too robust, it was still fine. The person at the store asked if I wanted to have them automatically import things from the old one…photos, contacts, etc. Seemed like a way to save time, so I said yes.
And as you might have guessed, it’s taking me twice the time to fix it all, than it would have taken for me to manually enter the stuff to begin with.
First of all, for some reason, it uploaded to bring the phone’s contacts and files current…as of late 2016. Nothing after that time, and it included material long before deleted from the phone.
How that voodoo happened, I don’t even want to ask.
I went to make a call the other day, though and searched for the contact alphabetically by last name…like the civilized world has filed things since the beginning of language. Couldn’t find it, so I keyed it in manually, only to find it was actually in the phone…but first name first, instead of last name first.
This is apparently how the kids do it these days…due to popular demand, the default is to file or sort by first letter of first name. You all know me well enough to know that my time was then spent fixing all of them, working around the default, so it sorts alphabetically by last name…again, as God intended.
We had a similar hiccup here at the station with a database of folks who won prizes. The 20-something handling things at the time sort of bragged about changing everything I entered last name first, to her preferred first name first.
I don’t know how we got so far off track on this, and I fully recognize that especially these days we have far more important things to worry about.
But I can’t fix most of that, so I’ll just sit here and re-do my contact information, sorting by last name. We all have to stand our ground and do our part, you know…to fight the enemy wherever it lives.
