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mark occomore



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 6:04 am    Post subject: Less Talk More Texting Reply with quote

A survey revealed by U Switch says an joy of Texting on you Mobile Phone is more common now than talking. People seem to get more distracted when there Mobile Phone phone goes off whilst talking. Have we lost the way of communicating now and find it easier to write things in message form?
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John W



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 7:41 am    Post subject: Re: Less Talk More Texting Reply with quote

Mark can you explain what you mean

mark occomore wrote:
an joy of Texting on you Mobile Phone



What is an joy?

mark occomore wrote:
People seem to get more distracted when there Mobile Phone phone goes off whilst talking.


More distracted than what?



mark occomore wrote:

Have we lost the way of communicating now and find it easier to write things in message form?


No. It's just more considerate sometimes, rather than interrupt what someone might be doing, send a text that they can read at their leisure later.

Brits have been texting more than phoning for about 10 years now, Mark Rolling Eyes

The US public were well-behind in seeing the value of texting because they are generally less considerate and too direct in their wish to communicate.

And, Mark, I wouldn't like to read some of your textes Laughing Wink

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 8:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

"Joy of texting". Sounds like an oxymoron to me Laughing

Last week on holiday in the Lake District the only phone which managed to get a hint of a signal was my wife's one with Orange. She spent ages doing a postcard-type message to send to her friends and colleagues, and asked the thing to Save before she Sent. Inevitably it wouldn't Send,, because the signal had disappeared, and her Save was lost as well.

Where's the joy in that? Evil or Very Mad
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 9:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can't remember the last time I sent a text, I hate mobiles.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 9:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I really don't like texting at all - in or out. It's such a poor way to communicate.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 9:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Texting is fine for quick arrangements, I have no probs at all with it. It will never replace a proper chat, and I don't like mobiles for that anyway, can't afford to fry any of my small brain!
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 3:48 pm    Post subject: Demon with a glass hand.... Reply with quote

I know that mobile phones have their uses, in emergencies for example, but it seems to me that some people can't go anywhere now without talking on their phones! 'I'm on the bus/train etc' the other passengers are unwillingly informed in a loud voice by these phonaholic numpties!
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 4:30 pm    Post subject: Re: Demon with a glass hand.... Reply with quote

Briant wrote:
I know that mobile phones have their uses, in emergencies for example


I have just learned an expensive lesson.

Last year I gave one of our "old" mobile phones, on Vodafone PAYT, to my mum for use in an emergency when she's out or on holiday; it had £25 of credit on it.

She hasn't used it, and when she did try last week we found that Vodafone had disconnected the number, "recycled" it, and snaffled the credit for themselves, pointing out the terms and conditions that the thing had to be used at least once in 90 days. No amount of cajoling and gentle or other persuasion has swayed them from this position.

Moral - use it or lose it Twisted Evil
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 3:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I love SMS. It's a fabulous technology - especially combined with the other stuff you get on moden mobile devices like cameras, video, 3G, WiFi, web browsers etc.

For the last few weeks I've been travelling around a few of our fellow European countries and whilst in Spain I was asked to check out some business premises in Malaga for a colleague. At each one I took some 3.1Megapixel pics and immediately sent them back as Multimedia Text Messages, each with a reference to each property and some "text" notes. Brilliant! What could possibly be simpler or more convenient?

I don't see why texting gets such a bad rap; it's no different to other "new technologies" like telephones, faxes, email or even posting in web forums (heaven forbid!) and I think it's another fabulous technological innovation. Blimey, last night I even caught up with some telly I missed by streaming BBC iPlayer and Channel 4's 4OD full screen onto my laptop!

Whatever next?

Love, Colby

PS: It's good to be back among you all after my little sojourn.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 7:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Of course the examples you give Colby are excellent uses of the technology but I can't stand the moronic texting for the sake of it brigade..

Texting females walking along the street - oblivious to anybody around them ( me praying for a lamp post ) and, like most of my staff, the immediate reaching for their phones on a break to text " what you doing?" "just on a break" "miss you ( since I last saw you 30 minutes ago )"... honestly, the sight of three of them sitting together with tea in one hand and their phones held up in the other makes me cringe..

Am I right in thinking texting is mostly a female thing amongst the younger generation? Confused

Official member of the Grumpy Old Man club... Laughing
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 8:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

SantaFefan wrote:
Of course the examples you give Colby are excellent uses of the technology but I can't stand the moronic texting for the sake of it brigade..


Yes, I'm with you there.

SantaFefan wrote:
Am I right in thinking texting is mostly a female thing amongst the younger generation? Confused


Not sure. My son (25) and his gang sit in a pub texting others who aren't yet there, and even text other when seated opposite! I have to go along with them, though, because it's often very funny. Last time I was out with them the group-text encouraged everyone to look at a bloke who was obviously wearing a "rug" on his head. It was really funny to hear everyone's phones bleeping as texts arrived simultaneously! (Mine too).

It's perhaps an "un-necessary" and frivolous use of the technology - but so what?

Last night I was getting some drinks in the pub and I got a text from my wife, who was sitting not far away, to remind me that she didn't want ice in her drink! You gotta laugh.......

SantaFefan wrote:
Official member of the Grumpy Old Man club... Laughing


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PostPosted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can't help thinking that the next generation will be distinguished physically by over-developed thumbs on one hand, a stooping body posture and an inability to speak to one another unless there's three bars on their signal.

My biggest gripe; I don't particularly mind the silly abbreviations like "lol" and "pmsl" because I can see the logic of them for texting use, but I do wish it wouldn't creep into written English, either on message boards or even, alarmingly, in some magazines.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 6:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gnasty Gnome wrote:


My biggest gripe; I don't particularly mind the silly abbreviations like "lol" and "pmsl" because I can see the logic of them for texting use, but I do wish it wouldn't creep into written English, either on message boards or even, alarmingly, in some magazines.


I agree. I'm not sure whether a certain young lady of my acquaintance is now aware that there is a "d" in the word "and". Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 8:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gnasty Gnome wrote:
My biggest gripe; I don't particularly mind the silly abbreviations like "lol" and "pmsl" because I can see the logic of them for texting use, but I do wish it wouldn't creep into written English, either on message boards or even, alarmingly, in some magazines.


I have to agree! I always put effort into spelling correctly when texting - which does casue some amusement among others but I don't care. However, I do love the convenience and ease-of-use of the technology itself. What I really hate is when (as you say) the short-hand nature of "txtng" seeps out into other forms of written communication.

I was copied in on an email between two young businesspeople the other day in which the first line of one email was: "Hi how ya doin hope u r ok". A friend of mine (who has his own business) received a letter from a prospective job applicant in which several words were written in txt spk. He immediately binned it on the grounds that if a person was communicating like that when attempting to get a job he/she would do so with the company's clients. I can't say I blame him at all.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It was just announced on the news that retailers are selling more forks than knives...
I blame today's yufe texting with the other hand! Razz
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 4:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

typical example today... me holding the door open as I'm leaving the shop and in walks some deadhead zombie looking down at his phone obviously texting some earth shattering news to fellow morons.
Not a courteous glance, grunt or anything... didn't even look up.
"Yes, thank you too" I sneered on his behalf... Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 4:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

SantaFefan wrote:

"Yes, thank you too" I sneered on his behalf... Rolling Eyes


I did that at lunchtime to somebody who coasted across the pedestrian crossing I was on. She didn't even see me.

"Don't mention it!" I shouted into her opened car window. She was talking hands-free on her phone as she drove - which proves a point about whether even hands-free is safe.
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