I’m late

I’m such a late early adapter. I adapt to new technology/trends very late compared to people around me, but that’s way before the rest of the market. This is because I’m fortunate enough to always hang out with very early adapters.

Was lucky enough to have a pc at home before everybody did, because of my family. To have an internet connection before my classmates had - back from the time of mIRC. I remember staying up all night on the chat, while still in elementary school. It was such an amazing notion, to speak with people from different countries right at home.

And when I went to Brown University, I signed up to facebook, even though I was reluctant to do so (”me? to post my picture on the internet? no way”) -  but I still ended up joining before most of the world.

So I feel that I’m a very late adapter, but that early and late it is all relative to your environment. Therefore even though I’m late compared to the people surrounding me, I tend to be way ahead of the rest of the market.

Do you feel that way too? I’ve always wondered how unique my position is as a late-early adapter. Are most people indeed either early adapters - “yea I’ll try that even though/because no one has”, or late adapters - “I’ll only do it after it has been accepted as mainstream”.