Posted on 09/10/2024 9:46:21 AM PDT by DallasBiff
I don’t text and tell people that, whether personal relations or commercial, no texts.
Texting leaves receipts. That can be good. Or bad.
I prefer email, because it can be typed quickly on a keyboard.
Texting is fine, but a bit slower.
As for making telephone calls, I avoid that whenever possible. I would prefer to go visit the person and speak with them directly than give them a phone call.
And feeling connected? Why? I think extreme extroverts come up with some of this stuff. I don’t need or want a social life, thank you very much.
ME too
Science finds out why many people get fat and die early texting instead of moving around.
My voice mail message says (really)
“I’m on the phone with someone more important than you, call back later or text.”
At my last unit before I retired, the Army issued me a Blackberry. Later, it was upgraded to an iPhone. I kept track of all of my meetings on that iPhone.
Then the bean counters decided that only senior leaders needed to have an iPhone, and I just wasn't high enough on the totem pole to keep mine. I told them that if they took away my iPhone, I wouldn't go to any more meetings.
I soon found out that you actually have a lot more time to work when you aren't going to meetings all the time.
And no one said anything to me about all the meetings I was missing. :)
“I love wrong numbers.” (Ruthless People)
It’s not evil, it is impersonal. Texting has its place, but yes, it can take over personal relationships. I do both.
Shoot, social media, and this site remove the personal and allow impersonal communication.
I like texting. I surely do not overuse it.
I like the idea of respecting the other person’s time and attention focus. Phenomenally useful is the ability to send photographs and, conversely, request your counterpart to send pix. You have a problem with me or something that I’m responsible for? Send me a pix, bro.
Obviously it can go too far. Just like calling can go too far.
I hate Facebook with the heat of 100 suns. But I acknowledge that it has some uses.
I agree that texting isn’t great, it has its place, but is wildly overdone these days. Texting, is also something I prefer to do in the earlier stages of dating, because it can remove some he said, she said from the situation if things go south. I’ll delete a contact, but I won’t delete the message history, and there has already been a close call or two in the last couple of years.
Just my anectdote, another big brother of mine, screwed me out of half of the inheritance from my mom and dad's estate.
I tried to call him, but he blocked me, and would only text, that is probably why I hate texts.
I text people with whom I do not want a deeper social connection.
Also text people with whom I do have a deep social connection when I know they are busy and want or need to share something but do not want to interrupt them.
Calling is so “last millennium”.
We video conference.
I text to ask if it is a good time to call. Otherwise I hate texting.
I have also avoided smart phones to date.
At work I had a co-worker who would use the chat program to contact me. He sat less than 10ft away on the other side of the aisle from me. He could just have said “hey”....
I hate Teams.
You can send text msgs via email if you know the recipient’s provider — for many providers, at least.
The email address tends to be of the form “9012345678@provider.com“. (You can set up nicknames in your email program to make it easier.)
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