Modern Day Communicating

I like communicating via keyboard but been doing it so long and gotten so used to it. I see some family a few times a year now. Just a different medium to me. It has it's pros and cons.
 

I like the new stuff, and don't miss the old "Ma Bell" telephone with its rotary dial, sitting in the middle of our apartment, especially as we were on a party line with our gabby neighbor monopolizing the line 90% of the time! 😁
 
Sunny said:
I like the new stuff, and don't miss the old "Ma Bell" telephone with its rotary dial, sitting in the middle of our apartment, especially as we were on a party line with our gabby neighbor monopolizing the line 90% of the time! 😁
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Yes I remember those party lines over here. I dont miss those old phones either. Dial 0 for the operator sitting in a vast telephone exchange saying Number Please.

Oh, yes the digital gadgets today are really good and the technical advances amazing. Dont want to go back to the old days re communcating but its the way we conduct ourselves I guess
 

Another way of communicating over here was how to get cash from a counter in a store or shop to the cashier in the cashier's office a distance away: a wire with a canister attached would be filled with cash and sent whizzing round the department to the cashier who would whiz it back onthe wire to the sales counter. It fascinated ne as a child.
 
When I got my first phone, I too had to share the line with a gabby cow who had the best set of lungs in Britain, I'm sure she could play the bagpipes as well as gossip about everyone in the area at the same time for hours and hours. I always got her off the line by interupting her coversation and telling her that because there was nothing on the TV, we were all here, huddled around the phone listening to all the slanderous things she was saying about our neighbours, and we were going to 'snitch' on her by telling the neighbours what she had said........it was so nice to hear the click when she hung up. 🤣
 
CrackerJack said:
Another way of communicating over here was how to get cash from a counter in a store or shop to the cashier in the cashier's office a distance away: a wire with a canister attached would be filled with cash and sent whizzing round the department to the cashier who would whiz it back onthe wire to the sales counter. It fascinated ne as a child.
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There were some folks on opposite sides of our street who had a similar system, they used to swap books and comics via the wire line. Sometimes a comic would fall off and others got to read them....:giggle:
 
I like digital communication because it's basically the only "friendship" I get. Especially now since people don't really talk to each other anymore because they're buried in their electronic communications. However it's difficult to get any inflection into a discussion without emojis to keep people from taking things wrong.

I don't like video chats unless it's with people I know.

I don't know what's worse anymore...trying to talk to people in real time or via text. Either way seems frustrating anymore.
 

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