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Granted, CBS recently reported some good news (which I also predicted on this blog a few years ago *gets cramp patting self on back*). The reason? Borders and Barnes & Noble decimated the indie and mom-and-pop bookstores. Though, for NOW, I think it will be tough to sell books unplugged, that trend should shift. These days, I’m too old to mess with it and as a writer, I find great entertainment researching murder and poisons on-line just to see what sort of ads pop up on Facebook.Īpparently a LOT of ads for pre-paid legal, therapy, and hardware stores. Want to get really freaked out? Go read Fahrenheit 451. Problem is, everything is optional…until it isn’t. I’d reset all the settings on my phone and clear browser histories, and… *taps out* I refused to use email and wanted all my bills on paper. There was a time I TRIED to remain unplugged. These days, I can’t even have a conversation in the car that suddenly there aren’t ads popping up in my feed for something I was just talking about. Now we track everything from packages to exes. We lived our lives unplugged, not even knowing we were ‘unplugged.’ Oh, the things my son (Spawn) won’t ever experience.

Hell, there wasn’t even ‘call waiting.’ You got a busy tone. And if the person wasn’t there, to have to…wait for it…call back LATER. We remember what it was like to have to walk over to someone’s house, knock on a door and ASK IN PERSON if they wanted to hang out. Which is why we drink heavily or want to. Yet, we’re also old enough to remember what life was like before computers. We’re young enough that we were a major force that set off the digital revolution. We’re the sarcastic middle child who trusts nothing and no one, crushed and forgotten between the Baby Boomers and Millennials.

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People like me who want some unknown author’s free book about as much as I want a free upper G.I. Oh, and I recently got sick, and couldn’t cull the endless author newsletters I was force-added to against my will because so many branding gurus swear by newsletters as the key to wealth and fame to the point they are SELLING email lists to total strangers. It’s a never ending game of Hell’s Whack-A-Mole. I had to create another business email (which, of course, I forget to check). If I am not on my cell phone deleting spam messages like Satan’s version of Space Invaders? Now? My business email is close to joining the Yahoo and Gmail. There is no way I’ve found to remain unplugged…even a little. No matter how many systems and filters… the spammers find me. It pees on the carpet and bites people, so we leave it alone. My Yahoo email went feral about four years ago.

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Hell, I remember LOVING the movie The Matrix.You wanna know WHY I loved The Matrix? Because I wasn’t LIVING IN IT. *weeps and drinks straight from the Hershey’s syrup squeeze bottle* I remember the giddy feeling whenever I’d hear that ping.