Internet lag catch up
I am engaged online all day, every day (Teams, SharePoint, podcasts.) I create websites and Loop workspaces. However, I will still travel to 3 local stores before resigning myself to purchasing online.
When I was in grad school, I worked for a professor who was brilliant, and a bleeding edge tech user. Interested in my growth, she always pushed me in the direction of new things. One of which was the early, early version of the internet. I would dutifully log in (dial-up, anyone?) and type in the prompt which took me to some prehistoric web crawler. And then what? I never did figure that out. I literally had to unplug the modem from the phone to get out of said web crawler.
A couple years later, web 2.0 came out and a graduate assistant at the next level of grad school was singing its praises. I was not persuaded. Indeed, it was more user friendly than the old version, but the content had not quite caught up with the hype. I was also teaching research at the time and I limited my students to sources that were found in the library, not on the internet. (Because – whale watching tours on Lake Michigan?)
Eventually the platform got better, the content got better. A few reputable professional journals started putting their articles online. There were commercial services to be had, but each and everyone required an account. More time creating accounts with logins (I hate creating passwords). All of this made it more likely that I would just exit the site and head to the local store. It is still faster to do my taxes on paper than to hit all the right boxes in the online form.
Sometimes in the interest of a minimal viable product, we create one that is such a nuisance that we inoculate people against it.
Puzzle Pieces Coaching 