Re: Do you think email

kittymomNC · ‎08-09-2012

I realize I'm "old school", and I guess I'm one of the few people in the world who doesn't want a smartphone, I don't want to text, and sometimes even email aggravates me. It's not that I don't think technology is great, it's that people don't seem to communicate face to face or actually talk to each other anymore. People no longer send notes, or letters, or real cards through the mail -- they just send "email cards". That just comes across to me as somewhat impersonal...

When some people do talk to each other, apparently they have to do it in the grocery store, in the bank if I happen to go in, in the doctor's waiting room, etc. etc. etc. I feel as though they're invading my space, and I don't want to be forced to listen to their conversations. Emailing and now texting has taken the place of so many personal contacts...I actually think it's sad. My elderly neighbor's middle-aged daughter and husband moved in with her to take care of her for a while because she can't live alone. She mentioned to me that her daughter has her phone in her hand all the time, doing something with it, and I think my neighbor feels somewhat left out because of it.

I will probably be forced to get a more advanced phone at some point, but if any of my contacts, personal or professional, think that I'm going to communicate with them by texting, then they can forget it! I'll email, but I won't text! ${#emotions_dlg.blink}$ ${#emotions_dlg.laugh}$

Clover29 · ‎03-09-2010

No. Txts replace phone conversations, email replaces formal written correspondence. Apples and oranges.

Puzzle Piece · ‎06-29-2010

I have both. On my phone I can get my e-mail and text also. I prefer e-mail.

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minkbunny · ‎03-09-2010

On 9/10/2014 Clover29 said:
No. Txts replace phone conversations, email replaces formal written correspondence. Apples and oranges.

Well said, in certain instances texts would not be allowed yet e-mail would.

I do not text, have disabled the feature on my phone. I speak to family or friends or email, usually we speak in person - on the phone - with our voices. I know many say, but texting is so much quicker. Guess we aren't in that big of a rush. Smile If it is not a convenient time to speak, a message is left and returned later.

What is funny is when my boss gets a phone call that she doesn't want to deal with she says, I will text them later - that way I won't have to actually talk to them.

hckynut · ‎03-10-2010

On 9/10/2014 ~moxie~ said: Will fall out of favor and that texting will be the favored mode of communication? I know I receive all my personal communications through texting than email.

I doubt it, at least not until all of us older generation have bit the dust. Too many don't like punching keys and many I know don't even like using a cell phone at all, me included, and I am into electronic technologies.

Who knows? It may do what many other things seem to do, that being "what goes around comes around". As I said in another thread on the Electronics Talk Forum when someone was talking about the screen size of the i6 phone. The first wireless phones were big an clunky and the move was to make them smaller and smaller and smaller. Now the trend is to make them bigger and bigger and bigger. A return to the old wireless days, except these new ones are near as heavy as the old ones.

Will some luck maybe using phones will go back to their original purpose, which was to communicate via using ones voice. If my only option to communicate is texting? If the USPS is still around I will go back to regular mail. Ain't no way I would ever use texting as my source of communicating anything to anyone. If I ain't got time to talk with someone or they ain't got time to talk with me? Typing ain't gonna do it for me.

hckynut(john)

kittymomNC · ‎08-09-2012

On 9/10/2014 hckynut said:
On 9/10/2014 ~moxie~ said: Will fall out of favor and that texting will be the favored mode of communication? I know I receive all my personal communications through texting than email.

I doubt it, at least not until all of us older generation have bit the dust. Too many don't like punching keys and many I know don't even like using a cell phone at all, me included, and I am into electronic technologies.

Who knows? It may do what many other things seem to do, that being "what goes around comes around". As I said in another thread on the Electronics Talk Forum when someone was talking about the screen size of the i6 phone. The first wireless phones were big an clunky and the move was to make them smaller and smaller and smaller. Now the trend is to make them bigger and bigger and bigger. A return to the old wireless days, except these new ones are near as heavy as the old ones.

Will some luck maybe using phones will go back to their original purpose, which was to communicate via using ones voice. If my only option to communicate is texting? If the USPS is still around I will go back to regular mail. Ain't no way I would ever use texting as my source of communicating anything to anyone. If I ain't got time to talk with someone or they ain't got time to talk with me? Typing ain't gonna do it for me.

I hear ya, John!! ${#emotions_dlg.thumbup}$

~moxie~ · ‎08-13-2013

I have completely embraced the 21st century. And in awe at what we are able to do with this technology. I am 67 and never in my life have I dwelled in the past. I have friends in their 70s and 80s that text me several times a week.

chessylady · ‎05-01-2010

I don't text, I don't have a cell phone but I do have an Ipad. I got on Facebook for the first time about 3 weeks ago because my niece had a baby and I wanted to see pictures. I find Facebook to be boring and mundane for the most part but I am also nosey so I like to see what people are up to. Trying to keep a low profile for myself but I am aware that Facebook collects a ton of info and deals advertising to you based on your history.