On 17/06/2015 11:20 PM, songbird wrote:
Fran Farmer wrote:
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I really like a traditional machine - a screen in front of me that stand
up by itself and a good keyboard that I could pound on if I was really
getting into the swing of a response. I hate tapping at screens which
aren't made for real human sized fingers. I'm a dinosaur.

yeah, plus i don't want to carry any gadgets around
and if i'm away from the keyboard it means i'm also
probably not going to answer the phone until i come
back in from the gardens.

they're really slow too for someone used to touch
typing.

i used to get actual written responses to notes to
people. now i get "ru thr?" or other similar one-
liners.

LOL. I'm suspect I'm even more of a dinosaur than you. I cna't
understand all this need for instant and constant contact. TMWOT, the
mobile phone plugged in people need to get a life. I watch people in
cafes and am astounded that they would prefer to look at a little screen
than the people they are with or their own tiny children who I can see
are doing things to attract attention and get the parent away from their
screen. Pathetic, IMO. The parent will be the only one to blame when
their kids grow up and care so little for their parent that they refuse
to change their parents incontinence pads.

I've only ever sent one text message on my mobile phone (as a test) and
(as far as I know) have never received one (and wouldn't respond even if
I was sent one).

I don't answer my mobile phone either and I have only given out my
mobile phone number to 2 family members who know better than to ring me
unless I'm off travelling and even then I'm always travelling with one
of them.

It's there for MY convenience so that I can ring if I need to do so, not
to make me accessible at all hours of the day or to anyone who doesn't
have the patience to ring, leave a message on the home phone and then
wait for a reponse.


songbird (fellow dinosaur

Yay!!!