I am so, so lost, every workday.
My official corporate BuzzFeed ID Photo.
My name is Mark Duffy. I am a 53-year-old married New Yorker.
Before coming to BuzzFeed, I worked as an advertising copywriter for 25 years.
Before that, I was a pre-computer age journalist for 8 years (including college).
I carried around one of these (that exact model, actually).
Now, I am the resident cranky advertising reviewer/ranter, and have been for a year and a half. I write under the name "copyranter."
WTF is a cranky ad critic doing working at OMG LOL BuzzFeed?
It's still pretty much an ongoing unsolved mystery as to what the Hell I am doing here.
I am old enough to be the father of nearly every other editorial employee.
And, these whiz-kids completely baffle me, daily.
I am in a constant state of bafflement at BF HQ.
IN fact, I've never been more confused, day-in and day-out, in my life.
I am not being hyperbolic, for once.
This place is quite "high tech." We have the best IT, DEV, and OPS (Is that how you write it?) people around.
I, on the very far away other hand, am very afraid of technology.
I didn't start, fully, using a computer for work until I was about 40 years old.
Example:
I was told by my bosses to download Chrome 17 months ago.
I still haven't done it.
I am going to do it. Really soon.
I often send inappropriate, angry emails without thinking to 100+ people in my department.
And this is me every time IT emails an update to our CMS (Imagine there's a funny GIF here — which I have no idea how to make)
