Three years ago at the annual Sag BBQ, everyone but me was sat playing with or looking at someone's i-phone. All adults in their 60s and all, except 2, IT or ex IT types. I mentioned that they weren't very good for conversation given that some of us only see each other at this annual reunion and said my phone was strictly for emergencies and used as a phone.
So 20th century! Apparently. Haven't bothered going to the reunion since.
And they delude themselves that they're "communicating" or "keeping in touch" They're not, they're just reading modern day " post-it notes"
I find this site and others I use quite useful, though I suppose most of it could be written on Post It notes. Much of its value is derived from the range of experience and location of members, which isn't something you'd be likely to find in Post It notes on a single board in a single location.
The email from my daughter's work experience employers that I read and responded to while out this morning seemed to me to be communication.
The level of detail on the map and train/bus route to get to the place she needs to be today would be difficult to squeeze onto a couple of inches square of yellow sticky paper (and you'd have to be pretty good at drawing).
And if the text messages involved in organising 11 members of a family travelling to a holiday together, involving cars, trains, keys, bedding, food, wheelchair access, late arrivals and new bits of information being added as we go along aren't communication (and the most efficient way to do it currently available) then I'm not sure what they are.
Prioritising your phone at a social event is a question of manners, really, rather than technology. Kidding yourself that all online activity (except your own) is at a somehow lower level of usefulness than yours is missing the point, I think.
That's my curmudging done for the day
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
My phone is my daughter's old, flip top one, and her number and 02 are the only contacts. No internet.
Mostly not turned on as the battery doesn't last long, but I put it on if expecting a delivery or if she is due to call me when she is on the move and take it with me if I am.
I agree LG - it's appropriate for some things but not when catching up with old friends you haven't seen for ages. The next reunion coincided with our move to France and I haven't heard that anyone's organised one since. I offered to host it next year but they'll have a shock - Have to hang out the window to get a signal and the internet is slower than a snail full of hosta plants.
I always thought networking was about meeting people, keeping in touch and keeping up to date with people who can be mutually useful and help you step up the ladder in some cases. Doing it by instagram/FB/tweets/emails is just the mechanism.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
We got our mobiles years ago . What prompted us to get them was,when we were driving in the middle of nowhere -relatively speaking as townies- and wondered what we'd do if the car broke down. I don't use mine much but it's handy to find each other if we're out shopping or whatever or to see when a bus is due
On a completely different note, I have just been sanding down wall board and cleaning the cemented floor base in our new shower room, prior to painting before the tiler and plumber come and do their thing. I found some admittedly straggly bindweed trying to grow up in a gap where water pipes come up for the new boiler!! Double humph!
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Had a slab of concrete where my old shed stood broken up and removed so I could grow some veg next year. Old, very solidly built, septic tank already half full of smashed up concrete underneath. Oh dear.
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The email from my daughter's work experience employers that I read and responded to while out this morning seemed to me to be communication.
The level of detail on the map and train/bus route to get to the place she needs to be today would be difficult to squeeze onto a couple of inches square of yellow sticky paper (and you'd have to be pretty good at drawing).
And if the text messages involved in organising 11 members of a family travelling to a holiday together, involving cars, trains, keys, bedding, food, wheelchair access, late arrivals and new bits of information being added as we go along aren't communication (and the most efficient way to do it currently available) then I'm not sure what they are.
Prioritising your phone at a social event is a question of manners, really, rather than technology. Kidding yourself that all online activity (except your own) is at a somehow lower level of usefulness than yours is missing the point, I think.
That's my curmudging done for the day
I always thought networking was about meeting people, keeping in touch and keeping up to date with people who can be mutually useful and help you step up the ladder in some cases. Doing it by instagram/FB/tweets/emails is just the mechanism.
I don't use mine much but it's handy to find each other if we're out shopping or whatever or to see when a bus is due