I am barely aware that something called TikTok even exists. I am NOT a social media person at all. I do e-mail and online message boards like this one, and that's about it. One of these days I'm going to write a piece about Facebook and Instagram and texting and all of that stuff I see people doing with their phones all the time and post it in the DU Lounge. I think people are becoming way too dependent on all of that stuff. Everywhere you go, everybody seems to be trying to memorize what's on that tiny screen in their palm, thumbs flying all over that tiny keyboard, and it's all a mystery to me how they're able to do anything with it. My thumbs are bigger than any key on that tiny keyboard and its adjacent keys, so if I try to type something on that tiny keyboard, there's no telling which of those keys will show up on the screen. So it'll take me FOREVER just to tap in one short sentence. I have to have the FULL SIZE keyboard on my laptop computer at home. I bought some tickets by phone to a softball tournament a five or six hour drive from here and asked them to print old-fashioned paper tickets for me and leave them for me at the ticket window. They would not do it and said they only issue tickets electronically, so that you have to download something and show that pattern on your phone at the entrance to get in. I tried to do that and couldn't figure it out. I somehow managed to get them downloaded, but then there was a step where it was presenting me with a question that I didn't know how to answer and I could not get past that step. I ended up not going to those softball games at all, even though I paid for the tickets. I tell you, this stuff just mystifies me. How do other people learn how to do all this stuff? Is there a college-level course somewhere that teaches you how to do it? Oh, I'll shut up now.
-- Ron
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