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12/8/2010 3:58 PM
I am a tech person. Some might call me a geek but I think I am more of a quasi-geek. What’s the difference? Well, to me it means that I do like the tech stuff but don’t do much programming and I like people.
Oh, I go through my times when I can be a little curt with people, especially if I am busy and they are too thickheaded to notice. But that still is me, not them (most of the time :>) ). And I hate people to get in my way in the store aisles and on the road. After all the speed limit is just an estimate, isn’t it?
I’d rather email than call and am learning how efficient the Social Media programs are for communicating. Not too much personal interaction there, eh? Or is there?
I come from a place in time that had rotary dial, party line phones. Your choice of color as long as it was black. And we had color TV with rabbit ears (if you have to ask you are really young!) and we only received 3 stations NBC, CBS and FOX, just kidding, of course it was ABC. And we had plenty to watch. One New Year’s Eve my dad hooked up an outside speaker he borrowed from a radio (yes, we had radio too) to the TV so the neighbors could hear the festivities (not sure why as they had they own TVs) Dad was pretty good with that kind of stuff. I think it had to be one of the first home entertainment systems!
I say that to tell you that if we wanted to interact with someone we had 3 options: drive or walk to them, write them a letter and wait weeks for a reply or pick up the phone ( as long as no one was already using it). No party line didn’t mean that we were having a good time, it meant that you had your part and they had there’s. As kids we would hear the other person’s ring and quietly pick it up to hear what they were talking about. But we usually got caught.
Now in our tech world we have many options to contact someone BUT we are missing a lot if we think those methods take the place of meeting face to face and getting a hug from a friend or family member.
Wonder what would happen if we put down our cells, PDAs, smart phones and minis for a whole weekend and had to go find someone to talk with? I think it would be much harder for the younger people who were raised with a phone in their pockets since kindergarten and for that I truly feel sorry for them.
Give me a call sometime and we can talk about it! :>)
Copyright ©2010 Stephen Sands
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