All of these excuses remind me of my kid. "But I have to know where
my friend's at, so I know what he's doing, so I know what we're going
to do later." And what are you going to do later? "Nothing, you know,
hang out, and stuff."
By the way, just kind of my feelings on the matter, but not using
text means you've grown up. I have a vibration/silent mode on my cheap
TMobile phone. It seems to work fine for me. Of course I don't have
people trying to contact me every 5 seconds. If I did I'd find
different people. What's that rather rude saying about people who have
to ask you every damn thing? Do you want me to wipe your butt for you?
Jeff M
On Jul 12, 2009, at 9:59 AM, t.piwowar wrote:
On Jul 12, 2009, at 10:51 AM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
Some studies have apparently found that most cell phone usage is
simply related to something that birds do all the time. Birds send
out messages to each other in the form of songs, chirps or tweets.
It's called "social interaction." Some people have trouble with
that, but it is very useful when coordinating activities with a
group of people. It will let you know if people's plans have changed
or if they are on schedule. Knowing this allows one to schedule one
own's time much more effectively.
I recently suggested to a doctor that his office start to use
Twitter. That way when he had an emergency and was suddenly running
very behind schedule his patients would be aware and could adjust
accordingly. Ideally a few patients who were most able to reschedule
would call in to do that. This would quickly get him back on
schedule with little extra work for his staff and a major benefit
for the rest of his patients.
*************************************************************************
** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives,
privacy **
** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://
www.cguys.org/ **
*************************************************************************
The primary way my staff contacts me is by text. When a text message
arrives my phone beeps once, barely interrupting whatever I'm doing.
Then when I'm ready to take messages I can quickly read my texts and
reply. In many situations voice messaging is highly disruptive to
those around you. Not using text is inconsiderate.
*************************************************************************
** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy **
** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ **
*************************************************************************
