Cell Phone Credit Card Swipe?

This one was weird, really weird, and I don’t think I’ll follow this trend, although I do try to keep up with the latest trends in credit cards and debit cards as payment methods, well, because quite simply, I don’t want to fall behind in the technology sector like so many others tend to do once they pass the age of thirty!

Well, here’s the new technology, which I guess is in some of the final stages of approval at the massive credit card giant Citigroup right now, and may be ready for release as early as six months from now. You know how a lot of cards allow you to pay for thing simply by “waving” or “tapping” your card on a reader on the credit card machine now? Well, this new technology supposedly is aiming to let you use your cell phone as a tapping/waving device to pay for stuff via credit. What’s the point, I can’t help but ask?

Is this somethiing aimed the technologically savvy, the younger kids, perhaps? Because I don’t know if I’d trust this way to pay for things, much less, NEED this type of convenience. I suppose the only convenience this cell phone credit card thing would offer to me personally would be that I would be able to carry around less credit cards with me. But….I already carry a wallet anyways.

The only other convenience I could think of would be it may save a few seconds in the grocery line perhaps. Even this is slim. Hmm…I guess I just won’t get some of these new fangled technologies that don’t really save time of increase convenience. To me, they are just technology for technology’s sake, nothing more.