Community Chat

[DiAnne]

I find it all very intrusive.  I have my cell phone turned off in my purse.  I never take it out of my purse at home.  I will e-mail but I don't text.  I try to remember to check my email and phone message when I get home but don't always do it.  My daughter is attached to her phone at all times and I know that is a sign of the times but it is kind of sad. 

[RainCityWoman]

Yep. Texting is the wave. Catch it. I can't because I am an English major, and I don't do emoticons, crazy abbreviations or lack of details. People are stuck with emails from me, elaborate details and all.

[Chrystaltree2]

Email as a way to communicate socially is old school.  Call me a dinosaur, I don't  use Snap Chat, Twitter etc either.  I don't want to.  I communicate via FB (which my girls tell me is old school) and texts and I've even been doing a little Instagram.  

[Krimpette]

I'm an old timer and I definitely prefer e-mail.  If not e-mail, then a phone call.  I text only if something is brief or time sensitive.  Otherwise, I consider e-mail to be a form of actual conversation.  I often might want to ramble a bit in my "conversation" and find it much easier to do that with e-mail or a phone call.  Never got into twitter, snapchat, etc.

[brii]

I text. 

I don't use snapchat or twitter or anything else to communicate with people.

While I don't mind emailing, I prefer to text.  If a group of us are planning something, we just do a group text. 

[chickenbutt]

Choices are always good so whatever you prefer should be how you can communicate.

I don't text and I don't do social media.  So I still keep up with friends by email.  Works fine for me.  

I tried Facebook several years ago and it just wasn't for me.    I didn't feel like I wanted to know what anybody was doing every minute of the day any more than anybody else would want to know what I was doing every minute of the day.

I notice that some folks here might not know about social media like Facebook and Twitter because they seem to treat this board as their own Facebook or Twitter page.  They might enjoy those social media venues much more than I did!

But, the bottom line is that I wouldn't let anybody tell me how I MUST communicate.   I bet some folks still write actual letters!  Nothing AT ALL wrong with that.   Probably the only reason I don't is that my arthritis makes writing more than a line very painful.   I can do a lot more typing before I have to give my hands a break.

[chickenbutt]

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@DiAnne wrote:

I find it all very intrusive.  I have my cell phone turned off in my purse.  I never take it out of my purse at home.  I will e-mail but I don't text.  I try to remember to check my email and phone message when I get home but don't always do it.  My daughter is attached to her phone at all times and I know that is a sign of the times but it is kind of sad. 

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I'm the same with the phone.  Much of the time I forget to even turn it on and, if I do remember, I only have it on during the day on week days so that my husband can get through.  When he comes home I turn it off.   I have the landlines turned off a lot because of the robocall problem.

I also think it's terribly sad that so many people are attached to their phones 24/7.   It's troubling to me, but I guess it's not my life so I need to mind my own business.  

[jaxs mom]

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@RainCityWoman wrote:

Yep. Texting is the wave. Catch it. I can't because I am an English major, and I don't do emoticons, crazy abbreviations or lack of details. People are stuck with emails from me, elaborate details and all.

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You don't have to use any of those to text. I once tried using net shorthand with my husband in a text and he texted me back with a ??? He is not tech savvy. Even my kids don't use it, even though I do know it myself. 

[terrier3]

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@RainCityWoman wrote:

Yep. Texting is the wave. Catch it. I can't because I am an English major, and I don't do emoticons, crazy abbreviations or lack of details. People are stuck with emails from me, elaborate details and all.

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Texting is going out of style too. Kids prefer to Snapchat.

[Susan in California]

I suppose that is true!  My family and friends do a lot of texting to me.

But if it is a longer commication, they will text a message that says,

"I'm emailing you"  ha!

But I have a wonderful friend who sends incredibly lengthy, multiple texts

in a row. 

Last night I had a friend texting me all through the debate.  I guess I hadn't

fully realized that emailing has been somewhat replaced.

Another thing my husband and I have noticed:  the phone cameras take the place of notes on a lot of things.  Take a photo of something to replace,

with its model number, and off to the hardward store--or buy online.

P.S. I did receive some very cute e- Christmas cards (Jacquie Lawson), and

one sender uses that method all year.  I must be old-fashioned, though,

because I do prefer a message or a card via USPS.