Have you noticed life is getting more complicated?

I like to think that I'm able to keep up in the ways that are important to me.

I do think that it is time for me to move to a more state of the art phone and a few of the apps that are available these days.
 

You're one in a million, Lon. Count your blessings (and you are doing just that).
But for me, yes, life is more complicated on many levels. Not just gadgets (that's nothing compared to the rest of the "stuff" we read about and see on social media and mainstream media and globally, and and and...).

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I don't know if this qualifies as "complicated" but I miss the innocence and kindness I used to see and experience in others. Many still have it, but less and less do I seem to experience it on a daily basis.
 
Mine is much LESS complicated. Cell phones, computers, internet, home delivery services, automatic deposits, automatic bill pay, battery operated things, just to name a few. And I don't even have any apps, AFAIK. :)

The only thing more complicated is getting your driver's license renewed, but that's a whole 'nother topic.
 
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My personal life is not getting more complicated...if only my health would listen to my mind tho'..... that's definitely becoming more complicated..

..but yeah I think I get what you mean.. for example ..my heating works on remote from my phone...for some reason I couldn't get my phone to turn it on last night..I was an hour trying to get it to work, I was freezing cold.. in the end I had to email my o/h at work and ask him to try turning it on from his phone ( he's 20 miles away)...and thank goodness it worked...but before the Hive system I would have just been able to flick a switch...

So many technical things I can't fix when they go wrong... whereas in the recent past before things were supposed to made more ''user friendly'', it would have been easy to do myself..now I have to rely on my techi husband to fix even the simplest things...
 
Just finished a week's visit to Vermont + New Hampshire, making plane reservations, car rental, lodging...then getting parked at airport, navigating unfamiliar cities in the middle of the night really made me feel like either I'm losing my edge, or life is just becoming more complicated. <sigh>
 
Complicated?
Nada

if my iphone experiences an update
I stop by Verizon, chat thru it

life?

It’s a bit fast
Technology
Moves too fast
I do enjoy it
Auto banking
Photography
Tools

Only,
once I settle in to something
I'd like it to remain awhile

I understand
Change sells

Never been fond of change

I prefer my clothes
My chair
My gun

My jeep


My woman

Too remain

……unchanged

So far
So good
 
I don't know if you are asking if MY life is more complicated, or if you mean life in general...life on earth.

My life is not at all complicated. If I'm thrown a curve because some things in general - things out in the world - have become complicated, I don't fret, I just ask someone about it, or look it up on my computer.
 
I'm gonna sound like a curmudgeon, but yes, I do think life is getting more complicated. Example from my own life:

For at least 15 years now, every year I have put together family photos into calendars, which I hang on the wall and present to my kids/grandkids. At the beginning, digital photography was a new thing, so
all I had to do was mail 12 prints to the company, one for each month, and they put each print at the top of a different month. Usually the picture was of somebody who had a birthday that month. They sent the prints back along with the calendars.

Then, things switched to digital. Using shutterfly.com , the customer designs the calendar him/herself. Multiple styles to choose from, different backgrounds, fonts, colors, the number of photos at the top of each page, the ability to put a photo down in the box of any date (such as someone's birthday), add text, etc. OK, it took a long time, but it was fun.

Yesterday, putting together my 2018 calendar was an ordeal. The pictures I use are from many different sources: my phone, texted from other people's phones, pictures that were emailed to me, Facebook pictures, you name it. Many different formats, some of which are not compatible with the Shutterfly software, so they have to be converted to jpeg. I finally got the calendar put together after tearing a considerable amount of my hair out, but I decided that this will be my last one. If the family wants the calendar tradition to continue, my high-tech grandkids will be much more comfortable with all this
complexity.

Just one example of taking a simple pleasure in life and making it unnecessarily difficult. The family calendar tradition will probably end, which is a shame, because looking through all of them is like a photo album showing the grandkids growing up, and many happy occasions. But with all the electronics, and the ability to instantly send photos back and forth around the world, not to mention Skype, etc., probably these wall calendars are turning into a quaint, old-fashioned relic. Progress? Maybe. Adding complexity and difficulty? Definitely!
 
YES!!!!!!!!!!
I'm still working and computers were supposed to simplify things. It's become quite the opposite for reasons too much to go into.
Suffice to say once companies learned how to make a buck by selling software designed so it would have to be upgraded and designed so the lowest level of workers tests it for them AFTER it's sold and so on.

One example of many is this: You filled out an order,emailed it to the vendor. They filled it, sent it back.
Easy.
Now you use software and put each individual piece with each serial # of the product. Work through the bugs. It is so time consuming!
Times this by many other tasks.
Complicated!
 
hearlady said:
YES!!!!!!!!!!
I'm still working and computers were supposed to simplify things. It's become quite the opposite for reasons too much to go into.
Suffice to say once companies learned how to make a buck by selling software designed so it would have to be upgraded and designed so the lowest level of workers tests it for them AFTER it's sold and so on.

One example of many is this: You filled out an order,emailed it to the vendor. They filled it, sent it back.
Easy.
Now you use software and put each individual piece with each serial # of the product. Work through the bugs. It is so time consuming!
Times this by many other tasks.
Complicated!
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Hmm ? I was an accountant prior to retirement. Computers made a complicated job simple. All those handwritten entries and balancing. A thing of the past.
 
Camper6 said:
Hmm ? I was an accountant prior to retirement. Computers made a complicated job simple. All those handwritten entries and balancing. A thing of the past.
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Yes that's when they were designed to do that. Now software is being sold before bugs are fixed. They leave it to the user to deal with. Sometimes your computer support can tell you how to "get around" the problem which takes more time. If companies have a good negotiator for the software licenses they buy then will they will tell the company what they need the software to do. In many cases the software company is dictating what their products will do and it usually makes them more money in the long run.
 
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Except for one important thing. Money or the lack of it.
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Yes and no, I think.

Certainly lack of money can make life miserable = complicated.

But as many of our politicians, celebs, and billionaires demonstrate, money itself is no guarantee of happiness through simplicity.

We are taught from childhood to succeed; inundated with media brainwashing, we learn that more is better, that new is king, and that to live a happy life we have to have a seven-figure income.

Only when we've (mis)spent a life chasing the almighty dollar do we realize what a shallow and needlessly complex life it was.
 
Yes and No as mentioned. What made life less complicated as new technology came along seems to eventually make it more complicated. My go to example: Checking account. One time moons ago, waited for the statement to arrive then balance the book and hope for the best:rolleyes: seeing if the check cleared. Less moons ago came calling the 800 number and listening as needed to the bank account info. That seemed wonderful at the time wow. Then online banking never balancing a check book again, just hitting the account daily was the best ever. Now the hacking and worry about the "what ifs" made it complicated.

This is just one of my better yet not as good thought on progress.
 

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