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Skriven 2014-04-14 19:55:22 av Nancy Backus (1:3634/12.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Dave Drum
Ärende: social  was: Lost Friends
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-=> Quoting Dave Drum to BURTON FORD on 04-11-14 19:55 <=-

 DD> It's kind of neat observing the bug-eye takes, etc. I get from people
 DD> when I inform them that I don't have a (insert social media here)
 DD> account and don't want one. Or, that I don't text so if they want to
 DD> give me a message call the number that they were going to send the text
 DD> to and speak actual words to me. 

That last is hard to do with a land-line POTS...  no text capability at
all... Most people I'm around now already know my luddite tendencies, so
I get less of the bug-eye takes, though...  :)

 DD> Every few days I get an e-mail from someone advising me that they have
 DD> dropped their phone service via their cable provider due to
 DD> connectivity or other problems. Or that they have dropped their land
 DD> line phones altogether. And I wonder whatever prompted them to quit Ma
 DD> Bell in favour of $cumCa$t or one of their cousins - who are, after
 DD> all, in the entertainment business not the phone business. And/or why
 DD> they think that the land line is not a valuable alternative means of
 DD> communication.

They fell prey to the insidious adverts... ;)  But didn't learn from the
experience to go back to Ma...  

 DD> I have a cell phone for my personal convenience. I also have kept my
 DD> Ma Bell landline telephone with basic service ... which costs me all of
 DD> U$20/month and is handy for making calls in a general power outage as
 DD> the TelCo phones are powered independently of the electrical grid -
 DD> unlike the cell towers. 

We've kept our phone service with the phone company... and made sure to
have at least one working corded phone at all times... but it is more
than just basic service, since they are also our ISP, with their DSL... 
And again, we also have an alternative dialup ISP (which is where I keep
my email account)...  In case of a power outage, of course the computers
wouldn't work anyway (except for Richard's laptop whose battery works),
but we could still call out and get calls in...  :)

 DD> I am so anti "social media" and so-called "connectivity improvements"
 DD> that I am considering asking Swisher for an e-mail account with
 DD> luddites.org.

That does have a certain amount of appeal to it...  ;)

ttyl         neb

... He enjoys a reputation as a master pig cooker. (He's a pig whisperer!)

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