gromit
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Ha. So I just got a smartphone finally a few months ago, was holding out as my old slider phone worked perfectly fine and I didn't wanna pay for data off of student loans (just finished graduate school).
I have really been enjoying the new phone
Here's the thing though: I sometimes find myself scrolling or even selecting or tapping with my index finger and feeling like an OLD PERSON. Usually it is thumbs, but sometimes I catch myself using my index finger or doing some other weird clumsy thing and feel like I'm in the wrong generation! I know my fingers are less precise with a touch screen than like a twelve-year-old's even though I've been using touch screens for years.
It makes me think about other ways that people who grow up around a technology physically interact with it differently, like different motor patterns. More fluid and integrated. I think of how my parents don't use keyboard shortcuts for copy + paste but instead click on the tab and move the cursor to select the options, preferring mouse over keyboard.
Do kids in schools even learn typing on a keyboard?
What are some things you've observed?
I have really been enjoying the new phone
Here's the thing though: I sometimes find myself scrolling or even selecting or tapping with my index finger and feeling like an OLD PERSON. Usually it is thumbs, but sometimes I catch myself using my index finger or doing some other weird clumsy thing and feel like I'm in the wrong generation! I know my fingers are less precise with a touch screen than like a twelve-year-old's even though I've been using touch screens for years.
It makes me think about other ways that people who grow up around a technology physically interact with it differently, like different motor patterns. More fluid and integrated. I think of how my parents don't use keyboard shortcuts for copy + paste but instead click on the tab and move the cursor to select the options, preferring mouse over keyboard.
Do kids in schools even learn typing on a keyboard?
What are some things you've observed?
