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: Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

I'm weird in preferring the time when electronics made a very limited sound, which all and only meant "some electric device needs human attention." It was concise and predictable. Now an electronic cry for attention can be anything. It makes them meaningless to my ears. The only ones that register anymore are the older style ones.

And of course, the goddamn backing-up beep that sounds exactly like an air leak siren, and will always make me anxious no matter how much atmosphere is around me.

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[technoshaman]

*laughter* my default ringtone? Center, top row, on this page I think you'll find it familiar, if not comforting. The default messenger sound will be familiar to any old-school sailor... or Trekkie/Trekker. So, yeah, I tend decidedly OLD SKOOL... Yes, it takes some effort to get a new gadget set up, but dangit, these noises are MINE, and fairly unique amongst the people I spend time around day to day... I hate it when somebody else has the same noise as me. (This is common when using corporate provided phones.. 15 minutes 'til team meeting, and it goes down like dominoes, ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong, kaTHUMP! NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!... No, I am not that brave, YET... :)

They're slowly changing the backup beep to a square-wave buzzer...

Hmmm. Maybe if we put the 4kHz bandpass back *in*... just thinking.

Re: Thoughts

[gatheringrivers]

Someone has the spanish inquisition quote as a notification sound? That's awesome!