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“LATWILL” Come Back!

23 Apr 2010 1 Comment

by jessiecarter in GRAVITY Experiment Tags: A Christmas Story, blog, e-mail, Facebook, technology, text message, thumbs, WordPress

GRAVITY Experiment Day #12

Today’s weight:  149.0 (it’s gotta be water weight because my hands and feet feel like they are going to explode)

Pounds lost / pounds to go:  1.5 / 13.5

Exercise:  NADA – I’ll switch up Sunday and today as my day of rest.  We’ve had one kid home sick and another to the doctor today with a tick bite.  I’ve literally been in bed from 12 – 6 today with something of my own – don’t know what the technical term for “ice-pick-in-the-temple” pain is but I’ve got it.  Cool thing is that I’m very sore from yesterday’s kick-butt workout and I’m feeling some body changes;-)

I accidentally removed a subscriber from my blog today – it’s not a good combo to have an iPhone with a touch screen and fat thumbs;-(  I saw the subscriber’s e-mail briefly and it was “latwill__@_____.___.”  That’s as good as I can do.  They didn’t have that second step where they ask “Are you sure you want to delete?”  As soon as it happened, I felt like that kid in A Christmas Story that stuck his tongue to the frozen flagpole.  As all the kids ran into school when the bell rang, Flick stood there yelling, “Come back!  Don’t leave me…come back!”

I’ll admit that this taught me a lesson though.  Technology can be dangerous.  I didn’t panic initially until the cyber-helper at WordPress told me there was no way to retrieve the subscriber other than to mention it in my blog.  I hate that I may have offended a complete stranger (or a close friend) because of my lack of dexterity.

But what about those people we ignore Friend-ing on Facebook (or de-Friend)?  Or people we “accidentally” send an e-mail or text message to containing hateful language?  What point are people really trying to make when they stop becoming a Fan of a particular cause or organization?

Technology gives us a dangerous form of anonymity and an unprecedented ability to be passive aggressive.  What ever happened to talking it out?  From now on when someone gives me or my company the cyber ax, I’ll just blame it on fat thumbs.