“I see that you refuse to understand my point so have a nice day.”
And what point was that?
“There was no caller ID or phone blocking etc. until very recently.”
Twenty years ago is considered very recent?
“I hardly know anyone who has a REAL landline phone now.”
Every person I know who is in business has a hardline with
the few exceptions being VOIP which in the context of this
conversations is the same.
“It was voice only, nothing else.”
No telex, no fax?
“When young people tell me themselves that they don’t know how to sit and carry on a face to face conversation I have to believe something has changed.”
A young person actually told you that? Sorry that sounds
made up.
There, I think I’ll have the last word and say it out right
and not sulk away with “have a nice day”.
“Twenty years ago is considered very recent?”
To those of us who were born during WWII it is very recent indeed.
“No telex, no fax?”
For home phone service in the days of Southern Bell there was nothing but voice. I saw my first fax machine on the USS Saratoga and repaired it in 1964 but it was many years later before fax machines were used in business offices, let alone homes. Telex was around long ago but that has nothing to do with what that article was about, you didn’t see telex in homes or automobiles.
“A young person actually told you that? Sorry that sounds
made up.”
Can’t help how it sounds to you but yes, more than one young person has actually told me that and I have heard it said many times about younger people by people fifty or older who have observed what passes for communication these days.
You can believe what you want to, I don’t really care but if you think there is not a huge difference between the phone service of even twenty or thirty years ago and today when many people almost never use the phone for voice communication you are very mistaken and there is almost no comparison between today and fifty years ago. I actually agree with you that there was a lot of overstatement in that article but there is something going on which prompted someone to write that article. Are you old enough to have any memory of the days before cell phones? Do you know what the term “party line” refers to?