I was reading on another thread about a problem playing a DVD on a TV without a DVD player and it brought home to me how technologically challenged I am these days.
I am far from being a Luddite; I have a laptop/iPad/p.c./iPhone/Kindle/digital camera and recently was bought a music system. I'm on Facebook and Twitter and use WhatsApp, Facetime and Skype. So it seems as if I'm fairly up to date, yes?
Well actually I have only the vaguest notion of what I'm doing with most of these things. It took me a day of frustration before my husband came home from work to show me how to insert a CD into into my new music player!
I have a dock for my iPhone, but I don't know how to use it. I've downloaded a few recently bought albums onto my laptop, but have no idea how to get them onto my phone and still less how to make a 'playlist'. I'm not really sure what a soundbar is or does. I take photographs, but don't know how to turn them into paper copies. I think I have to take the memory card out and go to a shop that prints them, but I see the machines that (I think) do this stuff and go into a funk. I only use a very small number of the programmes/apps etc. on my various machines and struggle with some very basic features. [Sigh]
Then along comes one of my children and reveals a hitherto unknown bit of information (I can now switch off the annoying clicks on my iPhone when I'm pressing the keys - who knew?) or uploads a useful app for me - and I realise once again that there is a whole world at my fingertips if only I had the time, the patience and the know-how to access it.
Is it just me?