I'm even farther behind. I don't "get" cell phones. Seriously. I hate phones, or maybe I have telephonophobia. Before I make a call (e.g. to make a vet appointment) I have to write down everything I'm going to say, and then I start to get a sick feeling in my stomach as the phone rings on the other end. Most of the time I'm hoping no one picks up and I can just hang up.
The phone on my desk at work rings maybe one or two times a month, and I use it to call out about as often. The phone at home is a landline and gets used to call out about once a month. I suppose telemarketers call on it (despite the do-not-call list), but most of them don't leave a message.
Other cell phone negatives: * I hate carrying things around with me. I hate having to keep up with stuff. If it doesn't fit in a pants pocket while I'm sitting down, I don't carry it. * I absolutely MUST have my privacy and alone time. I would hate to be reachable 24/7. * I have trouble hearing the person on the other end over what's going on around me. I have to completely shut out the "present" world around me and mentally put myself with the person on the other end. Often I close my eyes or just defocus them. (Is that an ASD thing?) * The thought of carrying around a GPS tracking device is creepy. (OK, now my tinfoil hat is showing.)
So yeah, I don't have or want a cell phone.
I don't blog because I don't see the need to share my thoughts with the world. So I really don't get the Twitter thing.
I don't think I've heard of a person feeling as anxious as that about making phone calls -- I bet it's common, though
We're about to become Texters, on grounds that a teen-aged person cannot develop proper relationships with other teen-aged persons without the ability to Text.
So: Texting.
This relates to GoogleMaster, why?
Because apparently people feel much more comfortable texting each other than they do calling - and when I say "people," I mean parents & their kids as well as kids & their friends, etc.
I bet there's a "social anxiety" aspect of telephones that affects most of us without our quite realizing it.
I frequently procrastinate phone calls even though I'm outgoing by nature.
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Did you catch the link to the article about primary students having to master Wikepedia and Twitter?
Pupils to study Twitter and blogs in primary school shakeup
Why am I no longer shocked by any of this?
Good cartoon. How many employers out there are bemoaning the lack of twitter skills in the work force? Is this crazy?
Dinosaur that I am, I don't even get Twitter.
I don't get texting on a cell phone, either. Silly me, I always thought phones were for talking.
Okay, you can wheel me off to the old fogeys' home. I'm liable to start drooling any minute now.
I do not Tweet but I am about to commence texting.
I'm even farther behind. I don't "get" cell phones. Seriously. I hate phones, or maybe I have telephonophobia. Before I make a call (e.g. to make a vet appointment) I have to write down everything I'm going to say, and then I start to get a sick feeling in my stomach as the phone rings on the other end. Most of the time I'm hoping no one picks up and I can just hang up.
The phone on my desk at work rings maybe one or two times a month, and I use it to call out about as often. The phone at home is a landline and gets used to call out about once a month. I suppose telemarketers call on it (despite the do-not-call list), but most of them don't leave a message.
Other cell phone negatives:
* I hate carrying things around with me. I hate having to keep up with stuff. If it doesn't fit in a pants pocket while I'm sitting down, I don't carry it.
* I absolutely MUST have my privacy and alone time. I would hate to be reachable 24/7.
* I have trouble hearing the person on the other end over what's going on around me. I have to completely shut out the "present" world around me and mentally put myself with the person on the other end. Often I close my eyes or just defocus them. (Is that an ASD thing?)
* The thought of carrying around a GPS tracking device is creepy. (OK, now my tinfoil hat is showing.)
So yeah, I don't have or want a cell phone.
I don't blog because I don't see the need to share my thoughts with the world. So I really don't get the Twitter thing.
that's interesting!
I don't think I've heard of a person feeling as anxious as that about making phone calls -- I bet it's common, though
We're about to become Texters, on grounds that a teen-aged person cannot develop proper relationships with other teen-aged persons without the ability to Text.
So: Texting.
This relates to GoogleMaster, why?
Because apparently people feel much more comfortable texting each other than they do calling - and when I say "people," I mean parents & their kids as well as kids & their friends, etc.
I bet there's a "social anxiety" aspect of telephones that affects most of us without our quite realizing it.
I frequently procrastinate phone calls even though I'm outgoing by nature.
From my twitter feed comes this cry for help from a mother/spec. ed teacher/techie (according to her twitter page):
"Looking for a good descripton of CTools for my college son's paper on online learning. Help! I can't find one."
Her next tweet tells us that her son attends the U of Mich, Dearborn.
Apparently, the kid can't even ask for help for his own paper online!
It's always worse...
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