I’m so OLD!
I’ve just read this on a website that I visit regularly: “Please let us know in the comments section below, on our Facebook page, Tweet us, or just old-fashioned-email us”.
Since when did email become the old-fashioned way? I still write letters, send cards and even telephone people. I guess that makes me plain antedeluvian.
And to make matters worse, I have now officially got arthritis; luckily not badly. When I told son, he just said, “Everyone gets it at a certain age”.
This triggered a memory of when my daughter was in infants school; she must have been about six. Her school was having a Victorian Day with dress-ups and typical food of the time. With child-like innocence she asked me “What was it really like living in Victorian times?”.
I shall now make an old-fashioned phone call to book my place in the knacker’s yard.
I would sharpen my quill, get some parchment, and pen an angry letter (in cursive) to that website!
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It’s funny, email is actually kinda dying out. The only reason a lot of younger people even have an email address is so they can register on sites/apps that they use instead of email. I got home from work yesterday and realised I hadn’t checked my email all day (and I work for a software company). I had received nothing of importance. Everything is about the real-time communication these days.
@mrroflcopter Yep, I do understand that, but I also wonder how well work can be prioritised when a job involves a lot of communication. Would important and maybe urgent tasks get put back because the immediacy of IMs grabs the worker’s attention and therefore gets responded to first?
@roofonfire Yep, totally. It’s easy to file an email for responding to later on. Less so with someone who is (virtually) standing behind your desk demanding your attention. That said, I *much* prefer the real-time comms. Deciding things by committee via email is so much slower than via a real-time conversation in either text or person. I don’t miss my old email-centric job.
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I love the instant communication of texts—but sometimes I have more words that I want to say. I also just can’t always do the shortcuts and abbreviations….it just feels wrong. And I still care about punctuation and spelling. And grammar.
So yes, I am ancient right along with you!
:)xo
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Where did you go? Come back, we miss you!
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