I’m here in sunny Florida getting ready for a swim. Tech has changed my life! I absolutely rely on my PC, tablet and phone. These devices keep me current with my life and with the world at large! It’s so easy to Google a question or check for a phone number. I make reservations for dinner and shop almost exclusively online. In fact, there are so many practical facets to the use of technology that I am startled if something goes wrong and my service is interrupted!
But I haven’t given up hand-written correspondence because I still believe that personal outreach is the best. I want to hear the sound of my daughter’s voice to “take her pulse” when she’s wrestling with a challenge and the real deal for me is face-to-face. I favor the “person” in “personal.'”
I wouldn’t give up what we have at our disposal but I hope the creative problem solving isn’t over ridden by You Tube and such. And no, I don’t miss phone booths-I always wondered what germs were on the handset and number pad!
ElderChicks 
I may be 87, but I’m finding I’m more tech-savvy than a lot of my younger friends! I learned to text ages ago when I realized that if I had a question and wanted immediate access to my grandson, that was the only way to do it. Call him on the phone? He’s at work. e-mail him? Maybe an answer tomorrow. Text? Hi, Grandma. What’s up?
Facebook?? Of course. How else would I see the latest photos posted of my 6 year old great-grandson? Or know what’s happening in my daughter’s world several states away from where I live.
Yes, BJ, you are absolutely right. If I find I’m in the car and forgot my iPhone, I turn around and go back to get it. A whole day without my iPhone?? Not a possibility. How would I check my email? Or get a phone call from a friend?
Aaah, technology. How did we get along without it.
Joan, I so share your sentiments on this. It is basically a cell phone world. Our four children no longer have land lines (I think) or answer them if they do. They don’t even listen to messages I leave on their cell phones, but always call back when they see on the screen, “Missed call from Mom.” I love texts for so many reasons. And, yes, they do get an immediate response from my family. Friends, not so much as they don’t usually know where their phones are. As for me, mine is in my pocket or purse whenever I leave the house, even to go in the yard. I have turned back many times to go get a forgotten cell phone. I would be miserable without it. I am in my late 70’s and wonder how we lived with out them for so many years, especially when the children were young. Instant access would have been wonderful back them.