Techie Derivative & Socialite Craptology

Getting new stuff is really a beneficial and a rewarding experience for the consumer. But the current trend of technology accelerating at the fast pace means the accelerating of you losing more money. Technology derivatives like cellphones and laptops must have a good life span. Consumers always find creative ways to earn more money and buy this stuff even if the buyer is not sure if this stuff will be a good long-term investment.

In our country full of social climbers, great pretenders and plain douchebags, some uses the image of high technology to cloak themselves with the idea that they are high-class while their family members is starving at home and probably eating the box of the newly purchased and insanely expensive cell phone. To save more cash and lessen you appetite for technology, here are some stuff and people you need to watch out and take notice.

Almost the same stuff with minimal update like 10% thinner
We collect our hard-earned cash, frolic in anticipation in securing the most sought after item and jerk on it once you had in your filthy dirty hands. Then an updated version of the same item appears complimented with hypnotic powers of their marketing group. They will sell the updated stuff in almost as the same price range from the earlier version.

Repair Crap
Locally, its hard to find a decent and legitimate repair shop that is not expensive. Some of the repair shop associated with your warranty will find ways to find other problems not mentioned in your warranty “limitation” list wherein in the end, after complaining and throwing cusses to the repair crew, you will still pay the miscellaneous “newly discovered and non warranty covered” problem.

Your new high-tech gadget is very attractive for me *snatches*
One of the reasons I not one of those guys who wants to update their gadgets as soon as a better version comes out, aside from lack of funds of course, is that it will be a prized item for criminals to snatch it out from your hands. Locally, we all know snatching and robbery happens everyday, even in broad day light and saw by tons of people, and the cops with big bellies will just jolt down your complain and wishes you to go away.

A wholesome ABC acronym: Accessory Bull Crap
What is a gadget main purpose? like what is a cellphone’s main purpose? a mobile equipment on the go that you can use everywhere. Locally, where a huge chunk of people is in desperate to have their forehead stamped with the words socialite, will just flaunt their expensive phones and place them on top of the table, along with a D-SLR, a second-hand laptop and just plain hanging out in the middle of a café. They never use the darn thing and just wasted a good amount of cash. Locally the behavior of the douchebags is known as “pasosyal”.

If you have gadgets that can give good performance and very helpful for whatever you are doing, keep it and don’t splurge your cash to acquire the updated versions of the same thing. Use the gadgets as they were originally designed and not as an accessory along with your LV (Luis Vuttones) bag.