Yep, things are getting strange :) The wife is becoming a facebook addict and I can't even use my computer anymore. I have to grab my android tablet if I need to get online these days. Seems like everyone is putting their personal business all over the internet, and thinking that it is great. I'm old school and still tend to keep a very low profile online and only those that know me by my online "handles", will occasionally catch me in different tech forums.
I do like that my parents are on facebook though, because it keeps them in contact with relatives and they keep a fairly mello online profile, and don't spew all their daily business to the world non-stop ;) lopaka ________________________________ From: Bill <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, September 22, 2011 12:56:41 PM Subject: Re: [H] STOP... Quite correct. The world is changing the way it talks to itself. Big time. Quickly. I live in a major US city and work for a large corporation. I can share with you that in the last 12 months, SMS texting is now standard in business. Email is not dead and it will never die ( I think!) but it is clearly on the decline. In my experience in my world. Here, everybody texts. If you send someone an email, you have to text them and let them know they have an email in their Inbox. Because they never check it. It ain't just kids anymore, sad to say. You almost define your age by how you communicate. Someone joked with me the other day that landlines and email are for "people over 50." Sheesh. If you want to propose marriage and express your undying love for someone, you have to do it in less than 160 characters..... Bill Sent from my iPhone On Sep 22, 2011, at 12:37 PM, "Veech" <[email protected]> wrote: > It's a different world now. Drives me nuts how much my kids and even my wife >communicate by texting. A topic that could be discussed and resolved in a >five-minute phone call takes two hours of back-and-forth on text, and usually >something gets taken out of context or mis-understood. My fear is that we >will >lose the art of conversation and eventually face-to-face communication. fwiw, >Facebook is now going the way of Myspace as twitter and tweeting/texting are >becoming more prevalent. Why bother posting complete thoughts on FB when an >abbreviated, truncated 160-character field makes it EZ 4 U 2 B laZ lol. > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Q. Martin" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 12:15 > Subject: Re: [H] STOP... > > >> When I listen to him talk about additions to THE FB I just wonder what world >> I >>live in today. Why would anyone what all their stuff out there like that? >>Has >>Zuck ever heard of TMI? Why do people need to share all that on THE FB? Is >>face >>to face or phone or a trip now and then or using photobucket to share photos >>with family so ancient now? Does the fact that something hasn't been done >>before automatically mean it is a good thing to do now or ever? I'm 53 now, >>but >>I think by the time I die the world will be so different I will feel as if >>I'm >>dying on a different planet. >> >> I think I got old... >> >> On 9/22/2011 2:54 PM, Julian Zottl wrote: >>> lol, stop him from what? >>> ---- >>> Julian >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Anthony Q. Martin<[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> .. .Zuckerberg. >>>> >>>> I think I got old.... >>>> >
