All right, I think I’m going to give this idea from WordPress a try. Yesterday I subscribed to The Daily Post at WordPress.com. Perhaps while I’m hibernating this winter I can make some use of the prompts and suggestions.
Topic #5: Do you prefer to talk, text message, or a different communication method?
Email. The first thing that popped into my head was the movie, As Good As It Gets, about a “cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer.” Whenever Melvin’s doorbell rang he went into a rage because his writing was being interrupted. And sadly, perhaps, I totally understood how he felt, although I was horrified that he expressed his feelings about being disturbed in no uncertain terms and in an extremely abusive way.
My tendency to get overly tongue-tied when talking is one of the things that motivates me to write when I want to express myself. My dislike of talking on the phone borders on being a phobia. And text messaging presents multiple problems… Being signaled that a text message has arrived feels like as intrusive an interruption as a telephone ringing. Being technologically inept prevents me from sending a coherent text message if I feel a response is required to one just received. Sometimes I manage to send off an “OK” successfully. 🙂
Email is wonderful. The only thing better is letter-writing which no one I know does any more. One can collect one’s thoughts and figure out the best way to say what needs to be communicated. When an email is sent, one doesn’t have to worry about bothering the recipient at a bad time, knowing that the person will check it when they’re open to receiving it. And when I’m finished with a few hours of uninterrupted genealogical research or writing, it’s a pleasure to go to my email and see what might be there.
Blogging is wonderful, too, for pretty much the same reasons. People can comment on each others blogs when convenient or when in the right frame of mind. And send thoughts out into the blogosphere to discover who else is out there to connect with.
So dear readers, how do you prefer to communicate and connect with others?
Barbara,
Yes I must agree with you email and blogging are very good ways to communicate your thoughts, idea, and have others not interrupt when in the middle of other creative activities.
I can’t afford to text and have basic cell phone, my friend almost talked me into a smart phone but I did not act to excited so she moved on about it.
Truthfully most of my communication is done on facebook these days, not that I desire that form, I would rather be with humans for real, yet blogging and facebook have offered me direct contact with many like minded beings.
I just woke up so I am not sure all of this is making sense!
Good to hear/read you!
Happy Blessed New Year
I am Love, Jeff
Hi Jeff! Just logged off of Facebook and checked my email and found notification that you had left a comment here… Good morning, and you’re making perfect sense to me! I’d rather talk face to face, too, but like you, have enjoyed finding like-minded people online.
Tim’s trying to talk me into an Android phone, but I’m doubtful I’d be able to learn how to make use of it. You never know, though, he dragged me onto the internet by tempting me with various genealogy sites…
Wishing you, Muffin & Riley a Happy, Healthy New Year too! (No more skunk encounters!)
B,
I think there will be a time in the not too very near future when we will get a smart phone… Oy! whatever the temptation !
No more skunk encounters. woods are quiet this time of the year, Red Tail hawk, some type of falcon, during the snow many deer tracks but no sightings!
J.
Well, it’s done. Tim is very happy with his new Android. I got to keep a simple basic cell phone, but it looks like I’ll be getting a Kindle very soon. 🙂
I’m with you on being almost phobic about the phone because of not being about to compose my thoughts, or think quickly. Blogging is my fave method of communicating and commenting, too. Next up would be email, but I’m pretty bad at staying in touch with people with it. I used to be an obsessive letter-writer, could write reams, but these days I can’t, don’t know why – it just dried up. Maybe I wrote too many, too often, for too long!
You sound so much like me, Val. Sometimes I’ve thought my pen pals were overwhelmed by my lengthy letters and stopped responding because they felt too much pressure to respond with a letter of equal length. I don’t know…