teeeechnology.

I abhor those pop ups that remind me to update something for the latest version now! Adobe reader is the worst. I rarely use adobe reader. I can't remember the last time I opened it. I only downloaded it for some obscure reason years ago. But those tech guys at adobe are relentless. I imagine them behind their computer screens looking at a series of ones and zeros and x's while rubbing their palms together intently, in between the frequent looks of aha! that grace their faces. "If I type this here and add that there, all of the world will be able to open documents at lightening speed!" they say to themselves. And then I get the pop. And it bounced back and forth and back and forth from left to right begging me to click on it. The only way to stop the bouncing is to click. And it wants me to update NOW but gives me the option, oh so subtly, to do it later. And I almost always choose to do it later.

I was thinking about my annoyance during the latest pop up reminder. It's definitely partly, even mostly, due to the fact that they interrupt me when I am in the middle of completing something that feels really important at the time. But I can help but think that part of my annoyance comes from the fact that it's a visual trigger of the reality that there are also things to be dealt with and updated in my real every day life that instead just get an every so often click to remind me later.