tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087283544997030082.post8228777550244895511..comments2024-02-14T20:17:15.115+00:00Comments on Chertsey: Don't call me...Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01759448161130667128noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087283544997030082.post-52194342565526755072010-10-04T15:44:10.510+01:002010-10-04T15:44:10.510+01:00What a beautiful, true, post.What a beautiful, true, post.MortimerBoneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14350657082481487596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087283544997030082.post-87213104972564266412010-10-03T20:55:36.661+01:002010-10-03T20:55:36.661+01:00That's a good point Carrie, although I guess i...That's a good point Carrie, although I guess it's still easier to lie on the phone if one is so minded than in person. I just find it quite excruciating, so I'm glad there's an alternative.Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01759448161130667128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087283544997030082.post-91075892978416782672010-10-03T17:19:15.313+01:002010-10-03T17:19:15.313+01:00Once upon a time, we would live close to everyone ...Once upon a time, we would live close to everyone we ever knew and could reassure ourselves of that human contact with a glance, word or touch. Now we often live a long way apart and the phone is a useful stand-in for that contact. Yes, an e-mail is more considered, yet it's untrustworthy for that very reason. You edit what you really want to say, insincerity can creep in. The immediacy of spoken thoughts, flawed and impetuous as they can sometimes be, are more real, more human and more welcome for it, in my opinion.<br />CarrieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087283544997030082.post-39392034831465068672010-10-03T04:36:36.383+01:002010-10-03T04:36:36.383+01:00Bravo!! Good point indeed. I love the non-intrusiv...Bravo!! Good point indeed. I love the non-intrusiveness of email too, with its ability to reach out for nearly free to anyone on the planet when I choose, and for them to respond—or not—when they so choose. I am academic advisor at a University. I advise 650 students who earn their degrees online and never come to campus. They live all over the world, in every time zone, and I develop an advisor/advisee relationship with them via email. <br /><br />I think especially in this day and age with cell phones, that they are a tool designed to keep social, marketing, and political tabs on us. I refuse to be tethered to one. I have a land line and I don’t use voice messaging or call waiting (which I have renamed call rude). I don’t know about the U.K. but in the U.S. law mandated in 2000 that all new cell phones have a chip built in allowing the carrier to be tracked by GPS—ostensively for emergency situations only (since the Patriot Act I am more suspicious than ever of the Government and Madison Avenue corporations. They seem to want to find us and riffle through our thoughts and behaviors to see if one is a threat to the control of the government or find me and sell me something I don’t need or want). <br /><br />Speech requires no forethought at all hence the saying, "Light travels faster than sound and this why some folks appear bright until they open their mouth." On the other hand writing requires thoughtfulness in order to communicate effectively. Texting is the exception: I teach English for the University and grade Junior University writing portfolios. Students have 2 hours to respond in handwritten essay form, to a randomly assigned four paragraph prompt. I recently evaluated one in which the only thing the student wrote was TLDNR; (text-speak for Too Long Did Not Read.) My final grade for his efforts? F4U.Jaqueline Almdalenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087283544997030082.post-18052966379878112452010-10-02T20:49:36.146+01:002010-10-02T20:49:36.146+01:00I think it was also Stephen Fry (possibly as part ...I think it was also Stephen Fry (possibly as part of the same point) who likened a ringing telephone to someone banging at your desk repeating 'talk to me talk to me' without any reference to what you might be engaged in at the time.<br /><br />Emails and texts can be dealt with when you choose - although I admittedly find writing a text on a phone slow & frustrating, it's normally still often the best option...Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06098938874477314472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5087283544997030082.post-45124854608768101652010-10-02T18:48:31.541+01:002010-10-02T18:48:31.541+01:00I know what you mean. I am happier writing than sp...I know what you mean. I am happier writing than speaking. Less intrusion and more considered.Andy Tidyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297448211000021970noreply@blogger.com