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I'm very thankful for on-line communication. I've never been much of a telephone communicator. I think that's because my dad wouldn't let us use the telephone (4-party line) unless it was an emergency and I got used to living without it.
posted by
TAPS.
on April 25, 2015 at 11:02 PM
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On a personal level, I find I can express myself better in writing than by voice, so I enjoy the chat and texting and emails. In business it is a supporting document; in day to day life it gives you a chance to contact whoever, whenever, without being invasive. A good example is my writing emails or comments in the middle of the night when others, who are not insomniacs, are sleeping, while I feel the need (and have the quiet time) to reach out and communicate. Great post, Ciel!
posted by
adnohr
on April 25, 2015 at 4:06 AM
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Ciel
I think every form has its place and that the problem is that most of us tend to get easy and drift into the easiest, fastest forms all too quickly.....just as we fall into most bad habits so quickly. I've always said the start of the fall of modern civilization all began with call waiting. The whole thing boils down to remembering the Golden Rule and treating everyone according to their "group" these days....older generations, and most parents in particular, tend seem especially in need of voice to voice communication at least from time to time.
I finally had to let my daughter know I had to hear her voice more often, texts were not doing it for me - meaning, make time for me! Maybe each generation understands its own language of manners but they have to learn to speak cross-generationally once they move into public spaces. You wouldn't leave someone hanging in space in a face-to-face conversation.... and so you shouldn't do that in hyperspace--that is common sense, isn't it? I hate asking a question and not getting a response. I know what people do....they open emails, scan and put aside to answer later and then don't....we're busy. Busy chasing our repeated communications too much of the time.I'm sorry, didn't mean to go on and on and I could....Golden Rule, using common sense and thinking of your receiving party....that's what communicating is about.
posted by
Krisles
on April 23, 2015 at 4:50 PM
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I am fine with this manner of communication. However, the problem that I see is that people have become addicted to it. I am not sure how to change the behavior.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on April 23, 2015 at 5:44 AM
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Yes I think Pat is right. I might be a bit more cheeky with some, who I feel will put up with it, but only after they indicate that they are not too annoyed. Some of course one would not wish to be nothing other than quite polite, or even praise a little, probably to encourage similar feelings. I think it depends Ciel to whom one is in communication with obviously. He who treats all the same does so at his own peril. Nice in everything is a bit worrying. Well I am not going to be too cheeky to you, Charlie looks a bit too tough to confront. It is a job to wink as one tries to tease someone by words alone.
posted by
C_C_T
on April 23, 2015 at 12:51 AM
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I personally do try to end FB chat with hug emoticon or a bye...sometimes something interferes and one leaves quick but I wouldn't just drop a telephone. Nor would I leave Blogit I hope without saying goodbye.Email is more like a letter to me. Sometimes a blog post needs to be revised....I believe there are rules of decency aand manners with all communications...well we should at least try.
posted by
Kabu
on April 22, 2015 at 5:13 PM
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I love to receive letters. I used to send cards for the holidays but now it's 50 cent for each letter and card and if sending them internationally even more so. It's free for me to send emails and it's easier for me to know when the person is free when they are showing online instead of interrupting the person at the least opportune moment.
posted by
Annicita
on April 22, 2015 at 3:48 PM
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For one thing, you can chat online in your pajamas or underoos if
you want to, you don't have to wash your face and comb your hair and look for a place to sit in a crowded coffee shop where you can have just enough privacy for a personal conversation. In some ways a FB or Blogit friend is like someone you meet on a train, you can have a very intimate, personal and frank conversation with them because you know they're not going to turn up in your ongoing social circle. So, at least for me, it's much closer emotionally because of the physical distance.
posted by
Pat_B
on April 22, 2015 at 6:49 AM
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