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technology and communications (take a look at yourself)

so who else is frustrated with learning bad or good news from direct family members by way of:
facebook
twitter
myspace
texting
email


In the past 6 months we have learned all of the below from all of the above technologies first,, not by phone or in person.
Grandmother fell and shattered her hip breaking pelvis in three places
Grandfather in hospital for second time
family member getting engaged
grandmother in rest home
grandfater may be on his death bed
Father in hospital, serious dog bite breaking up a fight
sister with two broken ribs and a brused liver
father with a torn retna
father with a broken heel


Findng these things first on the technologies I listed is wrong, perhaps Im being petty.  To make matters worse, the grammer and spelling typically used on these technology platforms injects a certain amount of disrespect to the situation.

ie-(message from daughter to father)=
jst wanted u 2 no me & alex r engaged. since 23rd.
The above message was sent from a daughter to a father while the daughter was in the same house as the father.  The daughter was spending two days with dad (24th and 25th of dec) and he gets this message from his daughter while under the same roof!!!

the list goes on but i think you all know or have experienced what im talking about.
I am totally over this heap of  they call "better" when it totally disolves any human element in family bonding or just friendship.
It seems that you cant just pick up a phone anymore and reserve the important things for a decent phone call out of respect for the situation and the people you "so called" care for.

I think all this helps make a person more lazy and irresponsible. Could it be one day that your responsibility is based soley on your social networking activities?  I see it coming.

you heard it here first, but soon there will be a whole new phscological disorder based on the lack of human interconnection with family that is the blame for the way people act or process feelings.  It might take a few years for the product of our actions to show a footprint or even make the news but that day is coming. 
I see it now... "the effects of social networking as a stand along means of communications".

technology and communications (take a look at yourself)

Reply #1 –
I think it depends totally on the family and logistics ,and the seriousness of said information.
 I wouldnt want to hear someone was near death in the hospital from Facebook, But if Auntie fell and broke her wrist, I have no problem reading that rather than a phone call .

Of course I have a HUGE family spread out all over North America and personal phone calls could literally take days



 
I will give that the daughter's message to the dad while  in the same house is utterly ridiculous
Fox-less at the moment

technology and communications (take a look at yourself)

Reply #2 –
i walked into my house a few months ago to a dozen teens sitting on my wrap around couch.
they were all silent and pecking on thier key pads.

I asked,, "what are you all doing"
them- "we are texting"
I ask "who?"

one of them pipes up and says, "eachother"

tell me that isnt spooky,,and stupid.

technology and communications (take a look at yourself)

Reply #3 –
Quote from: jcassity;347504
i walked into my house a few months ago to a dozen teens sitting on my wrap around couch.
they were all silent and pecking on thier key pads.

I asked,, "what are you all doing"
them- "we are texting"
I ask "who?"

one of them pipes up and says, "eachother"

tell me that isnt spooky,,and stupid.

Sir, I cannot tell you that , I'm sorry ... I agree it is out of hand, but I also think there is a place for it
Fox-less at the moment
 

technology and communications (take a look at yourself)

Reply #4 –
I can see that the daughter telling her dad of the engagement by text is a little, well, stupid, but I will say this: if it's a serious, potentially life-altering event or cirspoogestance, I'll make a phone call, or better yet, do the communicating in person.

It's because we live in, and mostly by instant communications. That, and some people would rather push buttons than open their mouth and speak a few words. It's baffling.

I have a smartphone, and it's rather silly, all I do with it is call Nicole on my breaks, check a couple-3 emails at night, and the weather forecast. Seriously contemplating having my line shut off when my contract expires in a few months.

I won't even get into the fact that some of these folks text and drive.
Maybe I will. A friend of mine died Monday night, not from texting while driving, but  it, there's other people on the roads, don't endanger them because you need to read what someone said right now, wait 5 minutes, find a place to stop, and then see what it says, or reply.
And buckle up, live to text another day.
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