Because I'm trying to not be "left behind" in this modern world of ours, I have recently been learning to create some of my blog post by using my phone.
As I have said previously on these pages, I pretty much only use my phone for two things: one, having phone conversations with people, and two, taking a few pictures now and then. Once in a blue moon I'll send somebody a text message because they didn't answer when I tried to call them.
Trying to type something coherent — like, for example, a blog post — on this tiny screen keyboard device just doesn't work for me. I'm used to a full size keyboard and a full size monitor and it's not that my eyesight is bad or anything.
It has only been in the last couple of years that I've even gotten so far as to occasionally use my phone to look something up on the Internet. Like directions to somewhere. Yes, I'm old!
The idea of actually trying to do something creative on my phone continues to elude me and to annoy me as well.
For example, I use all my own photos to illustrate my posts, and I find it extremely frustrating to try to use my phone to create and edit an attractive and in-focus picture that likely will be used and viewed on a full screen desktop machine part of the time.
Just because it looks in focus on the phone sized screen doesn't mean that it's going to look in focus when I get home and look at it on my 30 inch monitor!
Aside from which it annoys me to no end that it takes so long for me to create a blog post on my phone!
Even though I've tried a few times now — so I'm not a complete novice at it — I was still estimate that it takes me three times longer on my phone compared to on a desktop machine.
I sometimes watch our daughter (who is 30 and works in an office) do a whole bunch of different things on her phone. Of course when she's at the office she also uses a desktop computer and she's very proficient with both. However I don't have her aptitude for seamlessly shifting between the tiny device and a larger device.
The only thing I have found my phone to be useful for in a blogging contest is to use the voice-to-text function to make quick notes when I get an idea somewhere outside the house. Turn on the phone, open an empty text document and I can quickly "talk out" some quick ideas that I can then turn into a real post when I get home and put it on the computer.
I guess it's just one of the ways that I'm starting to show my age! Even though I've been using technology since I was in high school — scary to think that was 45 years ago! — and then by no means have been a slouch since then. A lot of it is mostly the "scale" of the thing I haven't been able to pick up.
I'm looking forward to when we'll reach the science fiction vision where you can just set your phone down on a table and it projects a usable keyboard in a full scale out onto the desk in front of you and you basically type on the table. Now that would be cool!
Thanks for stopping by, and have a great remainder of your week!
How about you? Do you prefer using your phone or a computer to blog? How about other "technological stuff?" Leave a comment if you feel so inclined — share your experiences — be part of the conversation!
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Created at 2023.08.02 00:30 PDT
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I have to admit, I can't blog on my phone either. However, my 14-year-old niece can literally do anything on her phone. Sometimes I'm amazed at how quickly her fingers press on the phone screen. If I did that, I would have a hundred mistakes. But she succeeds.
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Maybe it's just to do with whether or not we are "technological natives." Our grandson — now 13 — has never known a world without a smartphone in his hand or close by. He's actually more at home on a phone than on a full size desktop computer. Our children — early to mid-30's — are equally good at both.
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Or the headset that you put on which converts your thoughts into a fully interactive post without you needing a keyboard at all!
Whilst some things are easier on the phone, I think it’ll be a while before any meaningful blogging will be. Although maybe you’re right, we’re probably just too old (although commenting on a phone is ok)
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I suppose some of it also has to do with how people use the web. I look at our kids — in their 30's — and they pretty much don't create anything in written format. Everything they engage with is video. In most cases, video annoys me because I grew up with speedreading, and can consume what's said in a 10-minute video clip in about two minutes when it's the written word.
Yes, commenting from a phone is OK, and whenever I end up "checking Steemit" from my phone, it's mostly just to read and comment.
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I too have a hard time blogging from my phone, but I think it will get easier and easier to blog from my phone over time
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I've been trying oocasionally to do so for about 6 months now... I hope you're right!
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