In this day and age, adopting and adapting to new technology is something that everyone must do. We all do this in different ways: some people will jump head first into the new technology, blindly accepting it with open arms (Innovators), some will wait until the bugs and glitches are sorted out before hopping on the new products (Early Adopters), after these come the (Early Majority) which begin the bandwagon of new cool trends, then come the (Late Majority), fashionably late to the technological party, lastly, (The Laggers) will finally use the product, either because society forced them to by imbedding it in new systems, or simply because they were too cool to use it sooner.
Personally, I do not fit into any one category as far as this chart is concerned, but rather fit into different groups of "adopters" at different times, depending on the product or technology at hand. When it came to services such as Facebook and MySpace, I fit into the Laggards category; I simply did not want to use these internet services because I thought it was weird to post your personal life publicly online, and thought I was too cool for such things. Eventually, I was missing out on enough on Facebook that I decided to start using it. Now I use it all the time and truly understand how weird and silly it is that we post our personal information online all the time!
On another note, as far as technology and hardware are concerned, I am generally an Early Adopter or Innovator. I seem to hear about and want new hardware, such as cutting edge computer parts, long before they are released. I would usually wait until generation 2 of a technology came out to invest in it seriously, but in the case of Solid State Hard drives, or "SSDs", I jumped on the first suitable drive I could for my PC, being one of the first in the early adopters category. This SSD was the Intel XM series with 160 Gigabytes of storage, and speeds up to 100x faster than Hard Disks of the day (2010), it cost $400. I still use this hard drive and it holds up well to today's expectations in 2013. I recently upgraded my PC and bought the newest SSD on the market, the Samsung EVO 840, with 250 GB storage space, at the comparably low cost of $180. This new SSD is a prime example of why I would usually wait to invest in a new technology, it was under half the cost (even cheaper by price per gigabyte), and several times faster.
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...should have just waited and bought three of these
J. Kerner,
ReplyDeleteI as well was a lagger in the social network, Facebook. I personally did not feel like it would come to use to me and I as well did not like the idea of posting what Im doing or thinking. Until about the whole world got a facebook, I was missing out on a lot of things, so I decided to make a Facebook. I don't use it very much, but it is useful when my friends are planning things or when I need to contact someone.