I believe technology has its place and has allowed us all to connect in new ways... But it will never replace the power of a face to face conversation.
--Mike

I never would have thunk it...Dana with a blog. Very cool!
--Laurie

Oh geez, what the heck is a blog?? My grasp of technology failed completely after Walkmen went out of style. I keep wanting to email the shows on Discovery Channel but can't figure out how to do it...
--Shelley

Technology's fine if it doesn't become your life, and you remember that much of what you send out is visible to the whole world.
--Linspyder

I agree. Best not to mention anything unmentionable on the world wide web! D

There is a great and fairly recent country music song whose title is My Space. It is about a less than average looking fellow who becomes a James Bond look-alike on My Space. The salient line is " I'm so much cooler on My Space!"Since we can be whomever we want to become behind the computer screen which hides us, it just might be Satan, not a Saint behind the other keyboard!

A hugely important part of communication is not just the words, but the body language, voice inflections and what we see through the communicators eyes, "the windows of the soul". Technology has a long way to go before it can transmit these to us via the computer. For you see, these items do more thant transmit the message, they truly communicate the intent!

Equally as important, technology has yet to find a way to communicate effectively the true feeling behing a communication. Those who have felt it know that a tear on television or a movie screen cannot approach the power, the impact of one on the face of the person you are with.



--Abuelito
<mailto:rdupont6@comcast.net>

Spoken like a very wise man!
--Dana

I think that technology is a wonderful thing, and does enable us to reach out to others that me might never meet in person. However, I don't think that technology should replace the face to face communications that we need to have. A real hug is not the same as a cyber hug.
--Lisa Adams
<http://www.christianbookworm.net>

That's for sure. Cyber hugs aren't the same and crying onto a keyboard does not replace the human shoulder.
--Dana

You have a cool website and I love your contests!
I'm kind of a technophobe, but technology still interests me a lot.

--Carol Ezovski
<mailto:digicat@sbcglobal.net>