I went to a family get together a few weeks ago, and mocked one of my cousins for using her phone like a Boomer as she was trying to take a group photo.
This was needlessly cruel of me, but luckily her hearing isn’t great, or possibly she was deliberately ignoring me.
I’ve always used my index fingers on my phone, exactly as in the picture (minus the glasses), but a while ago I figured out that far from giving me the level of pinpoint accuracy I was hoping for, I was actually typing the wrong letters more often than the young people around me who were using their thumbs. This doesn’t make anatomical sense to me, but you can’t argue with (anecdotal) evidence. Plus, learning to use my thumbs would get rid of another marker of age, as if the wallet cover on my phone wasn’t bad enough.
Well, it’s been a couple of months now, and it’s actually worked. I’m now much more comfortable using my thumbs on my phone or iPad, to the extent that using my index fingers now feels weirdly awkward. And, as promised, my accuracy seems to have improved at the same time. I’m not sure what lessons I can take from this, though. Perhaps it’s that you can teach an old dog new tricks.
