Email vs Texting

[ysabetwordsmith]

 Apparently most people use email very differently than I do.  I can see why they'd hate it if they only use it for things they hate, such as work.  For me, I love my work.  I don't have local friends, so my friendly relationships exist in email and blogs.  I hate all the short message options, because I hate short messages.  I don't think in soundbites.  The topics I enjoy discussing don't fit in soundbites.  I despise phones.  This is only partly because modern ones tend to break when I touch them, are all but unintelligible, and hurt my ears.  I hated phones before that; it's just worse now.  At least the old landline phones were usable. But email is great.  I can answer it at my convenience.  Discussions fit into it just fine.  I can go back to look at older ones if I need to.

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Re: Hear, hear!

[ysabetwordsmith]

The article did imply that it's not the technology but the application that makes people hate it. They hated phones when that's what work used. Now they hate email. When the text generation goes to work, they'll use text, and then "everyone" will hate it. Meanwhile people may switch to something else for personal use.

But look at the signal loss. We've gone from face-to-face work communication, which included total information; to phone, which lost visual but included audio; to email, which also lost visual for body language but gained the useful abilities to control timing, polish before sending, and review later; to text, which has none of the advantages of earlier formers, but is merely short.

There's actually a scene in "Lucifer" where Lucifer sent Amenadiel a string of emojis about the climax of the previous season, and Amenadiel came to him in person to ask what the hell it meant. Lucifer had to translate.

Now imagine that happening at work. Won't this be fun?

You and your dog are just 10-20 years ahead of the curve. It'll take that long for other people to figure out what a fucking stupid idea this is.

*sigh* I wish everyone had the Amish rule of "Before adopting a new piece of technology, first consider the impact it will have. If it does more harm than good, don't adopt it." I don't draw the line in the same place they do, but I sure latched onto that rule the moment I discovered it. This has saved me many headaches.

Re: Hear, hear!

[ioplokon]

It's already happening. I get texts from my boss after work hours about work business. Same w/ email, especially the fact that it can be used to contact you for work business you're NOT being paid for uh... it sucks. Email you can say you're not at the computer/not online. Texting (w/ cellphone) you're ALWAYS (expected to be) contactable. Which is a rip-off if you're hourly lmao.

Re: Hear, hear!

[ysabetwordsmith]

Exactly. It's the same as ordering employees to clock out but keep working, which is illegal, but increasingly common. We'll need laws to stipulate that employers either can't contact employees at home, or must pay extra if they want to do that.

One good solution, if they're playing the casual card, is to block texts or get a plan that doesn't have texts. If they're going to demand that kind of access, they should pay for it.