What Are Your Preferred Methods of Communication?

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What Are Your Preferred Forms of Communication?

  • Texting (typing/written messages.)

    Votes: 7 35.0%

  • Texting (voice recorded texts.)

    Votes: 2 10.0%

  • Direct phone conversations.

    Votes: 3 15.0%

  • Face-to-face conversations.

    Votes: 13 65.0%

  • Voice chats via a chat site, talking to on person at a time.

    Votes: 3 15.0%

  • Voice chats via a chat site, talking within a group.

    Votes: 1 5.0%

  • Body language and gestures (let's keep it clean here, people!)

    Votes: 4 20.0%

  • Instant messaging (through typing.)

    Votes: 4 20.0%

  • Written notes/letters (email, PM's, etc.)

    Votes: 6 30.0%

  • Written notes/letters (via good old-fashioned postal snail mail.)

    Votes: 4 20.0%

  • Smoke signals (but keep the number for your local fire station on speed dial, just in case.)

    Votes: 3 15.0%

  • Carrier pigeons (who cares if they're extinct... I have a feeling they're all being held for ransom

    Votes: 3 15.0%

  • The Pony Express (nothing ensures good communication like wild men on horseback.)

    Votes: 1 5.0%

  • Pictionary--after all, a picture is worth a thousand words.

    Votes: 1 5.0%

  • I DON'T COMMUNICATE--I stare people down into smoldering piles of withered ashes. (Wild and Yaweh, d

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Word!!! I have something else to communicate in my post.

    Votes: 3 15.0%
  • Total voters
    20
Lynx

Lynx

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Not really. You could always become one of those hermits I was talking about. :p
 
seoulsearch

seoulsearch

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Lynx said:
Not really. You could always become one of those hermits I was talking about. :p
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I'm thinking I'm going to round up Toinena, Yahweh, Temp, and everyone else who said they like pen-and-paper letters so we can all go live in a cave and take turns passing written notes back and forth. :p

(The ironic thing is, while I dread most modern technology as a 24/7 "leash", I fight just as hard at the thought of being without it when it comes to modern conveniences... i.e., bathrooms and showers.)

My idea of "camping" would be a hotel... Shaped like a a log cabin.

But at least they would have a pen and paper on the desk! :p
 
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Zi

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People get irritated at me because I don't have a smartphone and will leave mine at home when out if my son is with me. The only time I'm sure to be reachable is when my son is at school or something. If he's with me, I consider a phone to be useless
Lynx said:
I have noticed for the last 25 years a person is increasingly expected to be connected. It's like a civic duty to be reachable. If you don't have a mobile communication device you are seen as a luddite or a hermit. If you do have a mobile phone and (heaven forbid!) you leave it at home when you go somewhere, you are seen as remiss in your duties to your fellow man who might want to call you in that time. "What's the point of having a phone if you never have it with you?"

Excuse me, I pay that phone bill and it's there for MY convenience. If my convenience with my phone and your convenience with your phone coincide at the same time I'll answer the phone. If I happen to be busy doing something I'll call you back if it's important or if I just want to talk to you.

Yes this is a sore spot for me. Sometimes I WANT to be out of reach. Man, the flak I get for it!
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Jennie-Mae

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seoulsearch said:
I'm thinking I'm going to round up Toinena, Yahweh, Temp, and everyone else who said they like pen-and-paper letters so we can all go live in a cave and take turns passing written notes back and forth. :p

(The ironic thing is, while I dread most modern technology as a 24/7 "leash", I fight just as hard at the thought of being without it when it comes to modern conveniences... i.e., bathrooms and showers.)

My idea of "camping" would be a hotel... Shaped like a a log cabin.

But at least they would have a pen and paper on the desk! :p
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Do you even know how much energy it takes to actually write a letter manually whenever the man upstairs for good fun made you left handed? Lol.

No Ma'am, qwerty is the greatest invention ever imho;).
 
kinda

kinda

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seoulsearch said:
I've really been enjoying reading the replies to this thread, and hope people will continue to post answers.

I was especially surprised to see that there are many people here who still love good old-fashioned pen-and-paper letters, and am utterly SHOCKED to find out that Yahweh is one of them!! :D

I was one of the last people at work to get a cell phone, and even then, it took me another 3 years to get another phone that texts (but it still has REAL buttons.) Now I'm dreading the day when I have to update to a phone that has a touch screen, because I absolutely loathe them. A friend of mine wanted me to type a sentence on her phone last week and it took me almost 10 minutes. GRRR...

Reborn can type twice as fast on a screen the size of a credit card as I can with a laptop, and he teases me about the day I'll be forced to "upgrade" to a more modern device.

To tell you the truth, I am thoroughly dreading it.

I told him the day I'm forced to get a smart phone, I'm gonna hook it up to a genuine 1980's Commodore 64 keyboard, because if I'm forced to type on a stupid screen, nearly all my written communication is going to come to a screeching halt.

(For all those people cheering at the thought of me not writing threads anymore, don't throw that party yet! :p If I'm going to upgrade, I might as well go all the way and get voice-to-text as well. Don't say you haven't been warned. :cool:)
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Somebody has techno fear! Don't worry about smart phones with the touch screen, it's not like there is any correlations between cell phone use and tumors/cancer.

I think in 2012 (when I bought my first smart phone) I told my brother, you can check e-mail on these smart phones!!! He answered, welcome to the year 2000. lol I think smart phones are great....youtube, web browsing, apps galore, texting, and etc. You can even cc on the smart phone. Only downside is keeping the silly thing charged.

Recently I dropped my phone in garage and cracked the screen, I fixed it by using clear boxing tape. Bam! 20 cent fix!
 
Conversationand

Conversationand

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seoulsearch said:
I was one of the last people at work to get a cell phone, and even then, it took me another 3 years to get another phone that texts (but it still has REAL buttons.) Now I'm dreading the day when I have to update to a phone that has a touch screen, because I absolutely loathe them. A friend of mine wanted me to type a sentence on her phone last week and it took me almost 10 minutes. GRRR...
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I was quite resistant myself. I might have never gotten a cellphone at all if it weren't for my Aunt and Uncle getting me one as a grad present. Even then I was highly resistant to it. Hated the idea of a cellphone let alone texting. Then I did the thing where it was a "smartphone" that slid open to reveal a full qwerty keyboard with real buttons. It was a long time before I got a smartphone but that was a game changer. I could google things whenever I wanted. Eventually I started to come around to texting because, lets face it, most girls text like its their first language and you can't win if you don't play the game. At some point though I started to get added in to my friend's group texts and I would leave my phone on my desk and come back later to 20 missed messages. That sort of turned me back off. I will text, but I prefer not to use it for meaningful conversation, just logistics mostly. If you've got something worth saying, it's worth calling and talking. I can have the same conversation in 5 minutes that it takes 5 hours to have over text.
 
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Yahweh_is_gracious

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I have a cell phone ONLY because my Dad insists that I have one so he can get hold of me "just in case". As I am the one running all the errands and have to be out of the house at least once a day gathering up whatever, he wants to have a way to call me at a moment's notice if he has an emergency.

...and we won't go into how I told him in an emergency that '911' should be his FIRST call.

Aside from that "need", I have no use for a cell phone whatsoever. I never make calls. I never get calls. If I'm online, I'm sitting at a computer. The new de facto standard of 24/7/365 online connectivity can kiss my grits.
 
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Yahweh_is_gracious

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seoulsearch said:
I was especially surprised to see that there are many people here who still love good old-fashioned pen-and-paper letters, and am utterly SHOCKED to find out that Yahweh is one of them!! :D
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Just when you think you've got me figured out...
 
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Ugly

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seoulsearch said:
Well shoot, if we had a group of people who were still interested in good old-fashioned letters and trusted each another to not become stalkers...

It'd be cool get a pen pal group going.

Although, I have to admit... I've become a bit addicted to the immediacy and frequency of electronic communication, even though it takes the actual personal touch down by about 10 notches.

Letter-writing is a nearly-deceased art.

I used to love saving up my allowances to pick out just the right paper, then coordinating the color of ink and even the picture on the stamp with the feel and theme I wanted the letter to have.

I also sometimes love to decorate the envelopes with stencils, rubber stamp designs, and insanely colorful stickers.

Just a warning to anyone in advance if I DO send them a letter...

Your mailbox is going to look like it was attacked by a 9-year-old girl.
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Doesn't Robo own a pen pal site, too?
 
Lighthearted

Lighthearted

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PHart said:
I did not see 'flatulent communications' in the list.
Did I miss it? Perhaps that belongs in the 'smoke signals' category(?)
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That is communication acceptable only to dogs and frogs...I'm sure you already blame them.
 
garet82

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Face to face communication. I wanna see the real expression of my friend i am talking with.
 
seoulsearch

seoulsearch

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Ugly said:
Doesn't Robo own a pen pal site, too?
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I'm not sure if he still does, but when I first joined CC, I checked it out and was on it for a little while.

I received somewhere around 10 letters, ALL from overseas (which could have been cool.)

Every single one of them asked for money (which is not very cool at all.)

One even wrote, "I'm looking forward to your assisting me (financially) with my education." Well, I guess there's nothing like being direct.

I haven't tried looking for new people to write to via paper letters ever since, so writing to people I actually already know a little bit about might go a bit better. Hopefully.
 
Lynx

Lynx

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The problem is if you already know something about them you already have more rapid channels of communication. If you sent me a letter I'd fire off a reply as a PM here (for a long reply) or send you an SMS audio clip (for a short reply.)
 
seoulsearch

seoulsearch

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Lynx said:
The problem is if you already know something about them you already have more rapid channels of communication. If you sent me a letter I'd fire off a reply as a PM here (for a long reply) or send you an SMS audio clip (for a short reply.)
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But that's only because you LIKE to spoil people's fun--you can't blame ALL of your party-pooping ways on technology! :p
 
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renewed_hope

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I have three ways of communication....usually I ask people to text me if they want to talk in the middle of the work day or if it's late at night or before they call me, less disruptive that way. With that said, I hate talking on the phone, but have grown to like it. Just the other night my bf and I were joking around to the point we laughed so hard we cried, those are fun ;) Then there are face to face....There are times where texting or a talking on the phone is inappropriate like if you are confronting someone, arguing or showing affection so I prefer the face to face to do any of these. I saved myself so much heartbreak by following these rules
 
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Jennie-Mae

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#79
I like face to face communication better. No phones, computers, or yelling from the nearest hill top.
 
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Jennie-Mae

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seoulsearch said:
I'm not sure if he still does, but when I first joined CC, I checked it out and was on it for a little while.

I received somewhere around 10 letters, ALL from overseas (which could have been cool.)

Every single one of them asked for money (which is not very cool at all.)

One even wrote, "I'm looking forward to your assisting me (financially) with my education." Well, I guess there's nothing like being direct.

I haven't tried looking for new people to write to via paper letters ever since, so writing to people I actually already know a little bit about might go a bit better. Hopefully.
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Judging from his or her grammar, he, or her, could really use some educational support.
 
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