I must be really old, I refuse to get txting on my phone and have the
ability to do anything Internet disabled.
I like my phone to be a phone.
Dinosaur
At 02:04 PM 9/22/2011, Anthony Q. Martin Poked the stick with:
"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....
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