So Called Techies

I found myself needing to rip this out about "So Called Techies". Just because you figured out how the wide variety of gadgets around your smart phone, pads, laptops etc work doesn’t automatically make you a techie. You are just a skilled user and nothing more.

Until you can actually describe how any one of them work, DO NOT tell me you are a techie. A trained monkey can run any one of those apps on your smart phone. Ignorance is bliss shouldn’t be part of technology but it is. So called techies tend to belief not knowing something is often more comfortable than knowing it. Thinking they are so smart just because they read about technology or because they have a smart phone that does all these fancy tricks makes them a techie! UGH!

Create an App, write a program or teach a computer class do something more with your so called knowledge besides twiddling your thumbs on your phone.

So what gives me the right to jump on my soap box and give the “so called techies” a bitch slapping. Because I can and because “true” techies don’t brag about what they know. “True” techies ask their own questions and find their own answers. “True” techies don’t believe everything they read. They analyze then decide and sometime wait for the results to show them. “True” techies know how to think outside the social media box.

You are not a techie because you can build a computer either. Building a computer has become as easy as the instruction in a Lego box. Of course it would be different if you had the skills to use a breadboard to build a basic chipset. If you don’t know what the hell a breadboard is look it up.

Most so called techies have no idea what a tcp ip stack is or even how to write one. That cell phones comes from a generation of radio designs. Oh and btw ”cell” in cell phone has more to do with the placement of the towers then it has to do with the phone itself. So called techies can’t even explain how a modem works. Let alone what one is.

I have been in computer technology for over 23 years and I myself do not call myself a techie because being a techie is a demotion to knowing how to run a smart phone app.
And I am a hell of a lot more then that!