Today I got a voice mail to remind me that I should check my Email for an important message. The Email said to confirm receipt of the important message by text. A return text suggested that I check my messages on FaceBook which contained a website link to something. (I can't remember what and I cant find it again) I think that important stuff rolls off the bottom of the page just as you need to see it. I have spent considerable editing time deleting the Farm Game Application which keeps piling up like manure which has sticky stinky properties. Voice mail from 4 hours ago just now showed up and must have come in whilst I was out of towers in a steel building with antenna jamming sophistication. The message said, "Call me" so I texted back and asked if I was still needed so I got an Instant Message saying the the messenger could not remember what they wanted. Another text sent a link to some great music and earlier I played Pandora collection of alison strauss for lunch background music.
Facebook has a poke feature that simulates unspoken interest and establishes a connection but allows only a metaphor for contact.
Voice mail allows a rehearsed summary of some thought lineage and is usually used because the wrong option was selected on the originating phone. Since a message was left inviting a message back if you leave your name and time and reason for the call you are bound to say something like "Text me"
But after all this, I am resigned to high approval of all these devices for they allow and encourage reaching out and receiving back thought-flights from friends who would not otherwise have even blinked at me. So pokes, and winks, and text, and IM, and voice mail and email and blogspot (You're on it) are grand substitutes for conversation because we just don't talk anymore.
So keep it up. Knowledge is power. There are no stupid questions. I will accept your communication in any form it comes and thank you for recognizing the excesses and addictions inherent in these methods.
2 comments:
David you are so right. Sometimes I think I am chasing my tail or should I say text. Sometimes they make me just want to go "huh" and check location, date and time. Where am I, who am I, is this really for me. I love to Poke on Facebook, makes no sense but I poke and wait for a return poke. I still like a quiet cup of tea in the evening with all electronic devices tucked away for the day. I take them all out in the morning and can't wait to see what interesting things they have to offer. We all need to talk more.
I don't text. I don't give out my cell number. I live in one of the few areas where there is no cell service. I have a pay as you go phone for when I am in town (40 miles from home). I use it if I have to call home and I use it when I travel. I am thankful that I do not have to take calls as I drive down the road. I do participate in the Facebook experience.. perhaps a little too much. I'm relatively new to it and enamored of the fact that I am in contact with so many folks that I have not seen in decades and also with friends, relatives and acquaintances who live close that I would not know so well or be getting to know as well were it not for Facebook. I use email for communication with family, friends and businesses. I google for fun and education. It is a necessary tool in this day and age. It's all "talk" to me. I love it.
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