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  • Sly
    Let's do some business!
    • Sep 2004
    • 31377
    #1

    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?
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    • C_U_Next_Tuesday
      WW4L
      • Oct 2002
      • 10581
      #2
      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..

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        • After Shock Media
          It's coming look busy
          • Mar 2001
          • 35299
          #3
          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.

          [email protected] ICQ:135982156 AIM: Aftershockmed1a MSN: [email protected]

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            • Sly
              Let's do some business!
              • Sep 2004
              • 31377
              #4
              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.
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                • After Shock Media
                  It's coming look busy
                  • Mar 2001
                  • 35299
                  #5
                  Originally posted by Sly
                  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.

                  [email protected] ICQ:135982156 AIM: Aftershockmed1a MSN: [email protected]

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                    • divinity
                      Confirmed User
                      • Jan 2005
                      • 1041
                      #6
                      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.
                      ICQ: 308-491-180

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                        • BV
                          wtf
                          • Sep 2001
                          • 10914
                          #7
                          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

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                            • Jer
                              God is Brazilian
                              • Feb 2001
                              • 10601
                              #8
                              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.

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                                • Jer
                                  God is Brazilian
                                  • Feb 2001
                                  • 10601
                                  #9
                                  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

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                                    • WiredGuy
                                      Pounding Googlebot
                                      • Aug 2002
                                      • 34512
                                      #10
                                      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
                                      I play with Google.

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                                        • Elli
                                          Reach for those stars!
                                          • Apr 2003
                                          • 17991
                                          #11
                                          Not exactly an early adopter here, but I tend to jump on a wagon slightly before the mainstream does.
                                          email: [email protected]

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                                            • nico-t
                                              emperor of my world
                                              • Aug 2004
                                              • 29903
                                              #12
                                              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...

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                                                • tristan_D
                                                  Confirmed User
                                                  • Jul 2005
                                                  • 7865
                                                  #13
                                                  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.
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