A friend told me that he recently removed the E app -šte from the phone. “I used to love in the old days, coming home and checked the E -hate – there would be new messages!” He rapsodized. I felt a pank. Not only would there be new messages, but often in those early days e -the facts were real electronic letters of friends, full of updates of emotional lives and indisputable narratives. Before sending messages, e -was an effective way of communicating, and the way we communicated were in sentences, passages, fully developed thoughts. We have not yet looked at the future where “K” or thumbs were considered communication.
I am always excited when people tell me that they have deleted the app: another small reduction of the time that will spend in my orbit on their phones. Infinitimal, maybe, but it moves in the right direction. Let’s merge with these devices that possess our attention, take some control.
But I am particularly interested in modifications that can restore some of the fun of communication before smartphones, when writing the letters was no wonder, and voice mails were wonders. I wrote about my Nostalgia for telephone cabins, We recommend that we borrow some of the parameters they have given and brought them to this century (say, which contain our private conversations with private spaces).
Even if we are nostalgic for the old days, it is difficult to bring back old habits. Erasing the E -They from your phone can let you out of compulsion to constantly check it, but that does not mean that you will return home to the inflow of full of satisfying your friends. There is a great chance of sending you to send messages all day, and your approachable post is actually full of unwanted mail and accounts.
In an attempt to reduce the grip of my phone to my life, I once suggested a friend to send a postcard every time we want to send the text to each other. I think we tried it a week before we admitted that it was an ineffective way to talk. I was aware of the artistic projection of the proposal from the beginning and did not realize that our experiment would replace the sending of messages, but I was hoping that the postcards would be so wonderful to at least retain the parallel flow of slow communication. That didn’t happen.
A few weeks ago, I sent a phone call to my friend without warning, I had never talked to someone with someone before. He felt a little reckless, a little rude, why I wanted to do it even more, because it seems funny that the call of someone should be controversial in any way. You should feel wonderful that someone wants to hear your voice, that he thought of you and wanted to connect.
Although I have a few people I talk to on the phone regularly, most people I consulted with looking at an uninvited phone call as hostile. They assume that there is urgent if they get a call from someone with whom they don’t have a regular phone relationship.
My recent telephone call of surprise was clumsy, as I doubted it might be. People had the width of the belt to receive phone calls from anyone at any time, even without a caller ID. This set of skills has disappeared, replaced by perhaps the ability to process more group texts that are rising at once. Now, even if it’s someone you are happy with to hear, a surprising call looks a little like someone pops unannounced in the middle of the night.
There are a lot of ideas to break up the phone addiction, but not so much about how to regain the romance of what I come to consider slow-commms era, the second half of the 20th century when the phone and the post were our main means of distance communication. Pain for the empty mailbox was, in my memory, more than a balanced ecstasy on a letter that finally arrived.
Still, it is not just a healthy correspondence cord; That’s the care and attention we gave her. We sat down and wrote the letters of ie -mail. We may have cooked dinner or folding the laundry while talking on the phone, but we were literally on a hook in length of call. Our communication required the presence and continuation of focus on another person.
We can definitely establish this type of concentration with some people-playing friends who turn messages to send messages, and he would be delighted if I would throw out with her in favor of phone calls-it is simply too effective to completely leave myself. It is a more imaginable option to try to bring a type of constant presence and full attention I miss to personal conversations.
If most of our remote communication is intended for technology mediation, then we see how irrelevant we can make our phones when we are actually together. Turn off warnings, completely turn off the damn things and practice really there. We think we are natural eye contact, when listening before formulating the answer, sitting together in silence. But like a phone willingness for a phone and fun delivery of voice mail, those skills atrophy.
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