Forum: Social networking
Topic: Do you use facebook or twitter?
Poster: Tom in London
Post title: Way ahead
[quote]Preston Decker wrote:
Partly because I generally distrust new technology (I look forward to the day I can be completely cell-phone free), and partly because the country I live in half of the year blocks Twitter, I've never set up a Twitter account.
I've also never gotten work on Facebook, although I was recently given a small project by an old college basketball teammate via email.
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Way ahead of you there, Preston. I do own one very old mobile phone, which sits on my desk and which I never answer and never take anywhere. I need to have a mobile phone number because certain websites, e.g. airlines, request it.
I can assure you that I lead a full life, never miss jobs, and am always on time for appointments. Unfortunately my friends who use mobile phones think it entitles them to constantly change plans, reschedule meetings, etc. I don't do that. If I agree to meet you next Thursday at 7 p.m. outside a certain railway station, I'll be there. And you'd better be there too because there's no way you're going to able to change that appointment.
I am a member of the post-mobile phone generation. I am NOT always available. Which means I'm probably less neurotic and anxious than all those people I see walking along the street staring at their phone, worried they might be missing something (not noticing that they're missing everything around them).
:)
[Edited at 2015-07-24 15:12 GMT]
Topic: Do you use facebook or twitter?
Poster: Tom in London
Post title: Way ahead
[quote]Preston Decker wrote:
Partly because I generally distrust new technology (I look forward to the day I can be completely cell-phone free), and partly because the country I live in half of the year blocks Twitter, I've never set up a Twitter account.
I've also never gotten work on Facebook, although I was recently given a small project by an old college basketball teammate via email.
[/quote]
Way ahead of you there, Preston. I do own one very old mobile phone, which sits on my desk and which I never answer and never take anywhere. I need to have a mobile phone number because certain websites, e.g. airlines, request it.
I can assure you that I lead a full life, never miss jobs, and am always on time for appointments. Unfortunately my friends who use mobile phones think it entitles them to constantly change plans, reschedule meetings, etc. I don't do that. If I agree to meet you next Thursday at 7 p.m. outside a certain railway station, I'll be there. And you'd better be there too because there's no way you're going to able to change that appointment.
I am a member of the post-mobile phone generation. I am NOT always available. Which means I'm probably less neurotic and anxious than all those people I see walking along the street staring at their phone, worried they might be missing something (not noticing that they're missing everything around them).
:)
[Edited at 2015-07-24 15:12 GMT]