Comments on: Connectedness and Real Time

By: You're Not Worthy of Your Own Social Network

You're Not Worthy of Your Own Social Network — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:21:01 +0000

[...] menial detail of your life. Some think this form communication is useful to the world. Myself and others think it’s about as valuable as an Elvis Presley Chia [...]

By: Jo

Jo — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:30:46 +0000

I couldn’t agree with you more. I have a basic little pay as you go phone which lives in my purse and is only switched on if I have a crisis away from home. On our landline we use selective answering to weed out the high volume of telemarketing calls.

By: Pamela Poole

Pamela Poole — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:26:04 +0000

Bob, you’re right about that. But youth, with or without enabling technology, and the phrase “rushing headlong” always seem to go hand in hand. It’s not a criticism. We’ve been there. And it was fun! I wouldn’t change a thing.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:09:53 +0000

Amen! Baby boomers that once used payphones and had only the three networks to watch on tv are able to harken back to a much simpler time when we need to disengage from being in the whitewater rapids of instant communication. The beauty is that we know how to navigate them, but we can also intelligently get to the shore and lay in the sun when we need to. Oh, the foibles of youth!

By: michael

michael — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:37:39 +0000

I have no cell phone, and haven’t used my home phone in weeks (there’s no more room on the answering machine, which is fine, since I never listen to messages anyway).

Anyone who needs me knows to email me. If there’s an emergency, they can still email me. I’ll probably get it within a day or 2.

Strange that someone criticizing the ubiquity of constant connectedness carries a phone at all.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:07:55 +0000

Pamela, I think it’s very cool that you can organize your work in such a way that suits your lifestyle. It’s all we hoped for that the web would bring us.

OK, Loopt might not be for you so you choose e-mail as your primary medium. All these new technologies allow you to manage communication (or even shut off) and therefore manage your life in the way you want it. Use what suits you best. I am pretty sure that in the early days of e-mail people had similar issues like you state above.

By: Connectedness and mental personal space « ReachCards - the blog

Connectedness and mental personal space « ReachCards - the blog — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:35:27 +0000

[...] and mental personal space June 12, 2008 It is when I read stories such as this one from web worker Pamela Poole that I know we are on the right track. She writes: My husband and I [...]

By: Pamela Poole

Pamela Poole — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:30:06 +0000

Mark, I knew somebody’d accuse me of being an old fart eventually, with the stuff I write. But if 40 really is the new 30, then I’m not really.

My attitude is more likely a side effect of living in a country that values substance…

http://pamela.poole.free.fr/frogblog/?p=597

By: Pamela Poole

Pamela Poole — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:19:18 +0000

Ben– No cell phone!!?? I thought I was a late bloomer (2003).

There are worse things. Although you can’t get just a plain phone anymore…

Fortunately, you can turn them off.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:13:28 +0000

“If you ask me, though, I think we’ve lost our compass.”

Noohuh, you’re just old :-). This is just the beginning.