Gizmo-freak? Techno-geek? Tech-savvy? Duh! not me. Technology is like Greek to me. My ideal birthday present can be anything but latest gimcrack mobile handset with a million features in it. How about ipod with 60 gb space? Nah! this isn’t something that sets my epinephrine running. I would rather listen to music through a more conventional source like tapes which aren’t as ambiguous as push-button gewgaws. No matter how much detached we feel from technology, we use some gadget or other throughout our normal course of a day. We must accept technology as our master. Don’t agree? Nod, if applicable-
90 per cent of your friends know you by your Yahoo ID and 50 per cent of them you haven’t met in real.
You can no longer sit through an entire movie without having at least one device on your body beep or buzz.
At you parents’ 25th anniversary you buy them diamond rings through Baazee.com with an e-card.
You know Bill Gates’ e-mail address, but you have to look up your own mobile number.
You stop saying “phone number” and replace it with “voice number”
You have atleast one Engineer in your family who visit silicon valley twice every year for some project.
You sign Diwali cards by putting:) next to your signature.
You remember about 20 knowledge emoticons.
You back up your data every day.
You wish one could add RAM to boost his\her memory power.
You forward technology-jokes everyday either through e-mail or through SMSs without reading.
On vacation, you read a computer manual and turn the pages faster than everyone else who is reading Julian Barnes novels.
Nine of the last ten books you read were on the Google books and 10th is the computer manual you take with you on vacation.
You know without a doubt that disks come in five and a quarter and three and a half inch sizes.
You have a profile on Shaadi.com(if married: you had a profile on Shaadi.com)
You are so knowledgeable about technology that you feel secure enough to say “I don’t know” when someone asks you a technology question instead of feeling compelled to make something up.
You rotate your screen savers more frequently than your automobile tires.
You have reduced numerous famous people to keystrokes. e.g, Miss Pamela Anderson is 8=8
Every third word you say is an acronym e.g, CYA, HOWDY, WASSUP
Your digital signature reads “shatter more keys”
You have around 10 e-mail IDs to boast about, but you don’t remember the password for 9 of them.
You watch TV on your PC, listen music on cell phone and work from your home.
You can’t identify your nation’s currency because you haven’t seen it for ages. You get you salary in your online account, you make all your purchases online, you shop through your credit-cards, you prefer e-gifts, you have a petrol-card.
Your scariest nightmare is virus entering your computer.
You trust Google more than anyone else.
You have a password for everything you use and you keep those passwords in your e-bank locker with a password.
You have about a dozen remote controls for different gadgets and a master remote control controlling all other remote controls.
When you go into a computer store, you eavesdrop on a salesperson talking with customers and you leg in to correct him and spend the next twenty minutes answering the customers’ questions, while the salesperson stands by silently, nodding his head.
You use the phrase “booted out” in a conversation without thinking how strange your mouth feels when you say it.
You constantly find yourself in groups of people to whom you say the phrase’digital compression.’ Everyone understands what you mean, and you are not surprised or disappointed that you don’t have to explain it.
You have some fond memories of Yahoo chatroom and you love sharing them with new online friends.
Your refrigerator, television, music system and other gadgets have so many functions that you keep discovering a new one, and forgetting an old one every day.
You give your examinations online in a virtual classroom and feel great to see Dr APJ Abdul Kalam as chief guest via videphone at the online convocation programme.
Your favourite indoor sport is Yahoo Literati, and favourite outdoor sport is EA Sport’s FIFA 2006
How many time did you nod? You can tell dat in comments section