How long does it take you to...
 

try out new services and experiment with new technology? Here's a few examples: online banking, PayPal, eBay, MySpace, ePassporte, cell phones, text messaging, etc.

It's kind of strange how bad I am about trying new technologies and "hip" services. I first tried online banking about a year and a half ago. Last year I setup my first verified PayPal account. I've bought one thing off of eBay, and it was last summer. I did setup a MySpace account this past fall. No ePass. I have a cell but am canceling it since I never use it, I don't even know my number. And the list goes on.

Anybody else as slow with this stuff as me?

I find I become comfortable with certain things and dont like to change...for example I had photoshop 5 for almost 3 years before I tried photoshop 8.. fucking world of difference.

I never bothered to figure out Text messaging on my cell phone..it seemed highly annoying and juvenlie to me. I just recently learned how to put peoples names and numbers in the damn thing..

I do online banking and savings account, had paypal forever now, use online bill pay for everyone I can. Have had a fedex account online for some time. Quickly also started using the postal service online as well.
Have a cell phone yet do everything in my power to dissable text messaging. Older model phone, its really only a phone and that is it.
Recently was sort of forced into using epassporte to pay people.

Now I have never used myspace, friendster or any places like that. Have not even really looked at them. I do not have a pda. The only electronic items I have that are able to do anything with the internet are my pc's.

Guess it really varies with me a great deal. If something is of good use for me I will embrace it early, otherwise I ignore it or wait until I am forced into it.

Oh I get a few bonus points. I have a MP3 player, Rhapsody, and have had Netflix for years. Maybe I'm not as bad as I thought.

None of that here.

I'll jump into all sorts of things early. online banking, ebay, myspace, paypal, etc. I have accounts with. I pay all my bills online except for rent. I bought a sidekick 1 back when they were monochrome screens and have upgraded the day a new one came out. About the only new technology I didn't jump on is the PSP/ipod craze. I just don't see myself using them much.

Paying bills online rocks! been doing that for ever along with paypal
Bought a Blackberry a couple years ago, sent it back, ugh! I'll stick with just a cell phone thanks.
Never played video games, ever, but just started playing Gin & Texas Holdem on Pogo with my Grandma, lol
never had or wanted an ipod or pers. mp3 player, but i'm thinking about getting one for when I go out fishing i can connect it into the boat stereo. i hate earphones
probably going to get a big wall mount lcd or plasma tv soon, still watching a 36" Toshiba Tube. Has an awesome picture and a killer hi power surround sound, but i still feel like a caveman

I do online banking
use PayPal since dec 2003
eBay since dec 2003 (bought 40-50 items so far)
brazilian auction site since 2002 (bought about 10-12 items)
MySpace - No. The big thing in Brazil is Orkut and I don't have a profile on it. My wife does, since it started.
ePassporte - yep and I love it.
cell phones and text messaging - I've never had a cell phone. No need for one.

My ICQ number is 7 digit and it starts with 2. It would probably be 6 digit if I didn't say "no, I don't have ICQ and I don't plan to install it" so many times

I'm definitely not one of the early adopters to new technologies. I prefer watching things grow/evolve and once they hit critical mass I usually cave as well.
WG

Not exactly an early adopter here, but I tend to jump on a wagon slightly before the mainstream does.

pretty damn fast...

hard things (for me) like SQL take a long ass time though..

its like math.. i just dont fucking like it and i never will...

I learn new stuff asap if I feel like I need to, like on line banking, computers, and cellphones. But when it comes to fashionable gadgets like iPod it usually take me a couple of years to really check it out.