November 16, 2007
Send Me Your Stilted, Your Plodding, Your Muddled Emails
The Death of E-Mail, by Chad Lorenz
“… I realized that my agility with e-mail no longer marked me as a tech-savvy young adult. It made me a lame old fogey.”
I’m a lame old fogey too. I have a Twitter account; never use it, never will… I’m just not into the hyperactive thing. I’m on Facebook; never visit it except to deny “friend” requests, lol. Have a Tumblr account (microblogging); never use it (I have a macroblog after all). I refuse to get a Blackberry (despite repeated threats and no cost to me). Just leave me the heck alone already.
Cat: | Time: 11:17 am (utc+8)
November 16th, 2007 at 4:46 pm
Nothing worse than when recycled articles take the actions of teens (or any group segment) and then expand a given temporal trend into a broad reality.
All those teens eventaully become adults, with less time to twitter or fuss over myspace layouts. The fragmented nature of alternatives to email are email’s strength.
November 16th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
And isn’t it wonderful to send handwritten letters to grandma!
November 16th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
@Finn: The young professional girls I deal with (in their mid-20s) are pretty uncomfortable with email; they much prefer text and chat and if they do email, it’s often full of text-speak.
@Markus: Grandma hand writes letters to Toddler T but his father never replies to Grandma for him (in any medium).
November 16th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
I am almost 30 years old and have no clue why people have blackberries, iPhones, or palm pilots. I find them not to be useful.
November 17th, 2007 at 8:23 am
Very useful if you spend a lot of time commuting on mass transit.
However, for me the most useful device is my dog, which needs to be walked twice a day, and that forces me to get away from all screens and media input for an hour or two. This downtime is a lot more valuable to me than yet another kind of connectivity.
November 17th, 2007 at 9:00 am
talkingdog: Yes, I listen to the iPod on my commute (and often send text messages too). In addition to a dog, a mistress also can provide a lot of valuable “downtime.” ;-)
November 18th, 2007 at 10:23 am
unfortunately, a mistress is even more expensive than a dog!
November 18th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
talkingdog: Assuming your dog doesn’t have rich tastes.