My favorite use of texting -- I set up our servers at work to text me when anything goes wrong. Power outage, reboot, disk error, etc. It emails the output to "[email protected]" (where xyz is my 10-digit phone number) and AT&T forwards it as an SMS to my phone (verizon has the same thing -- [email protected])
Very handy! Scott On Sep 22, 2011, at 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? >>>> ---- >>>> Julian >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Anthony Q. >>>> Martin<[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>>> .. .Zuckerberg. >>>>> >>>>> I think I got old.... >>>>> >>
