Posted on 10/16/2011 4:29:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
Let alone texting, I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times in the last year when I’ve said to myself, Gee, wish I had a cell phone.
Not always. I work I a busy hospital where I need to contact colleagues all day long. Choice one is to page them, then sit at the phone for 5 minutes while I wait for a call back. Choice 2 is to call their cell. About 80% of the time they will be with a payment and unable to answer. By the time they listen to voicemail and call me back, I will be with a patient and unable to respond. Choice 3 is to send a text message they can look at and reply in a similar fashion at the first convenient moment. Guess which method of communication gets used where I work?
BTW none of my colleagues are stunted or incapable of writing
Sorry. Autocorrect translated patient to payment. My bad! I need to learn better typing skills on the ipad
i loathe talking on the phone... i especially hate making phone calls... i love email, i love texting and i pray to get someone's answering machine or voicemail when i do make a call... even as a teenager, i hated talking on the phone... i do think it's gross to ignore your kids while texting... i see that often...
In your case it makes all the sense in the world. But how do you deal with someone like me who doesn’t carry a cell phone around with me at all times — and often has it turned off even when I have it with me?
This may sound like a subtle difference here, but how is texting any more effective in your situation than e-mail?
You probably aren't worth dealing with if you can't be bothered with having a way for people to get in touch with you. You expect people to track you down?
Not everyone gets email on their smartphone, and email is more difficult to answer with a phone. When I am with a patient the text makes a sound less annoying than my pager, and I know to check it at my earliest opportunity. Email might not be checked until I am at my computer at the end of the day
Let’s see...I’m in Baghdad, a grown daughter in college in the Western US, a grown one in Louisiana, and two young ones in Turkey. Text is good for me or better yet, emails that are pushed immediately. Don’t judge everyone people, you don’t know their circumstances. Might be a family with hubby over here for all you know and that was the time to make contact......although the part about the baby crawling around all over the floor wasn’t good. I want all of them to know Dad is contactable 24/7...even here.
I’m the same way. I hate talking on the phone. Hate hate hate it. I spend the entire time pacing around, one finger in my ear, yelling “WHAT WAS THAT??” I’m not hard of hearing, I just can’t process voices unless I can see the face too. Moreover, I hate being trapped with someone who doesn’t take the cues that you want off the phone. I’d rather email any day. I do limit texting to stuff like “Be there in 20 minutes” and “Are you already at the meeting?”
I have problems with texting but I can't agree with that. Texting involves typing and grammar. If texting didn't exist, people would be using the phone. If anything, texting is a return to the fading world of writing letters. I work with kids, and while I argue about texting, I certainly don't see their writing skills as suffering for it.
It's the content I find objectionable. Just casually saying those who text are incapable of writing simply doesn't make sense to me. I mean, they're writing.
I’ve never texted anyone in my life. When i’m reading FR.. chances are i’m nursing a baby. Freeping and feeding ;)
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