I think it will always be something that people differ on based on how verbal they are. I'm not the best conversationalist, and so email does help me compose my thoughts and hone them into something that's marginally cohesive. But many people excel at verbal interplay and I find conversing with them fascinating, at least in person. I think the problem with the phone, and this is more the cell phone, is the horrible reception that seems to encounter one out of every few calls. Dropping calls while traveling is one thing, but just hearing the other person if you are talking via the speakerphone or headset, even just the regular earpiece can be a challenge. You would think that with the constant progression of capabilities of these devices to do all kinds of fancy networking, we'd see some better voice technology, but the ONLY service that I've ever encountered anything better than POTS is Skype. I can't believe that people who use Skype don't immediately want to throw out both their landline and their cellphone. It's truely like the comparison between 1080P HD and a crappy 70's-era early color TV. I really wish that once LTE takes hold that they will use some of that extra bandwidth to expand the quality of voice calls. That SHOULD bring more people back to using it to talk with. They also need to solve the latency issue since that cripples conversations just as much as overall poor voice quality...
Levi Wallach blog: http://twelveblackcodemonkeys.com tweet me @dvdmon (http://twitter.com/dvdmon) On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Craig Froehle <[email protected]>wrote: > I despise talking on the phone. Not only is it often inconvenient (mostly > for the person being called), but you can't revise your thoughts (for > efficiency, clarity, etc.) in advance. Plus, you don't have a searchable > record of the conversation. That's why I prefer email for most everything > that isn't face-to-face...and even some that are. ;-) > > On Aug 16, 2010 12:04 PM, "ldouglas" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I read an interesting article about the death of the phone call that > > changed my viewpoint a bit on this subject. The author was basically > > saying that in the days before text messaging and even answering > > machines, a phone call was nothing more than an interruption. The > > caller didn't know the schedule of the person he called, whether it > > was convenient or not, etc. Nowadays we can schedule those synchronous > > phone calls using asynchronous email, text messages, or IM so that the > > actual phone call can be as productive as possible. > > > > Of course, this doesn't make up for the fact that people are using one > > to replace the other, but a little balance can help rather than hurt. > > > > On 8/16/10, Chuck B. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Tony Cooke > >> <[email protected]>wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> > >>> And, (said he starting the sentence wrongly!) I am at great pains to > >>> always spell and punctuate my SMS texts correctly when texting my > >>> grandkids. > >>> > >> > >> Which brings me to one of MY pet peeves these days. Why doesn't anyone > >> CALL any more???? How much time could we save if we stopped texting and > >> started calling! Not to mention the potential for a return to > >> actual "Customer Service" from vendors! > >> (Sorry to stick my two cents in on you "old-timers" here on the board, > but > >> texting and email as the foundation of modern human interaction has > become a > >> real bug up my b*tt the past year or so . . . and I found that I needed > to > >> vent too.) > >> > >> Chuck B. > >> > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
