"Someone joked with me the other day that landlines and email are for
"people over 50." Sheesh. "
Ouch! Nail, coffin, me dead!
And cell companies make a small fortune selling people low-bandwidth
text plans. Amazing. I heard a stat the other day that like 1/3 of
cell-phone users would rather get a text than talk on the phone or in
person. And a large portion of people would rather surf the web than
have sex...
I guess Zuck is just a sign of the times....
Man....skynet is already here. And so is the Matrix.
:)
On 9/22/2011 3:56 PM, Bill wrote:
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?
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Julian
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Anthony Q. Martin<[email protected]>wrote:
.. .Zuckerberg.
I think I got old....
