Originally Posted by
Marco
Haha... You're like me in that respect, Joe, mobile phones are simply an unnecessary distraction. The last bit is funny because people today have become so conditioned to communicating via text or email, that the good old-fashioned LANDLINE PHONE is largely a forgotten entity!
I don't know about you, but I'd rather have a proper conversation with someone on a phone (mobile or landline), than typing messages to them on a keyboard, as it's a much more 'real'/human experience. Emails are ok, using a proper computer (PC or laptop), as you've got access to a decent-sized screen and keyboard, but fiddling around with the tiny screens and keypads on mobile phones is in comparison a total ballache, especially when there's a fair amount you want to say...
And the thought of posting on forums, via a bloody smartphone, also fills me with dread... The predictive text function, for starters, and how it fucks up the spelling of words, and the typos it causes, would make me want to smash the bloody thing against a wall!
Marco.
The bit about texting vs. talking to an actual human being - couldn't agree more. I do struggle with tiny keys as my hands/fingers are completely out of proportion with the rest of me, and half my time texting is spent correcting where I missed the correct keys.
Sometimes texting can be useful, for imparting/receiving job details that can later be referred to rather than relying on my memory. But text conversations quickly sap my will to live. I particularly hate when someone ends their text with a question, usually something banal which doesn't need to be asked, and then I'm made to waste more of my day composing a reply
What might be handy would be if I could just speak a message, as you would do with voicemail, and the recipient's phone transcribes it to something he can read. I wonder if that sort of thing exists? Save my sausage fingers to do what they do best (look out laydees, these little piggies have got the day off!)
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