Comments on: The future of online etiquette is already here — it’s just unevenly distributed

By: Anastasia M. Ashman

Anastasia M. Ashman — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 02:21:02 +0000

Returning to the US after almost a decade abroad has felt to me like time travel — backwards — especially in terms of communication. Even though I feel more connected than ever, someone left me a message on my new American phone line saying “I’ve been waiting 10 years to talk to you.” Last spring my startup hosted a webvideo conversation on the communication styles of globally mobile progressives (you can still view the recording here: http://www.globalniche.net/communication-styles-of-mobile-progressives-a-globalniche-conversation/) and came to the same conclusion Mathew Ingram does in this piece. As the more progressive party, we must communicate with people where they exist, and that may be somewhere in the past.

By: Alpha0ero

Alpha0ero — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:43:09 +0000

100% agree.

By: drbop

drbop — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:30:26 +0000

Geeks simply displaying their lack of TRUE social interacting abilities…….LIKE TALKING TO EACH OTHER.
And author here has AUDACITY to claim that “no one is using” emails anymore…….SHEEEESSSSSHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Keep on climbing into your tech cocoons……..keep on keeping people at arm’s length……….keep on thinking that “friending” someone = ACTUAL + true communication……keep on thinking that the internet is ALL the ACTUAL world……and keep on thinking that EVERYONE has access to devices and the net……..

YOU WILL be led by the nose by large entities (whether gov, corp, u or cult) into SIMPLY being “hip” CONSUMERS insead of concerned and ACTIVE (for REAL) CITIZENS that should be demanding SOOOOOO much more…….

and YOU will contribute MIGHTILY to the destruction of the human race.

WAY TO FREAKIN’ GO! BE PROUD!

By: hortron

hortron — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:46:51 +0000

Good article. I have issues communicating with my wife when I’m at work because she uses her iphone at home and around town and I’m sitting at a computer. She prefers texting me, I dislike being texted b/c it costs $0.10 a message! I’d love an email (I have umpteen accounts or fb) but she says it’s harder than I think to send an email from her phone. Maybe she subconsciously knows that if I got a super-short email from her, I’d think she’s being rude, but it’s a matter of the input, whereas if I got a super short text, the constraints of less space would be implicit.

What I don’t understand is why would you use twitter? (we’re talking DM, right?) Is it all a matter of what application you’re looking at the most?

By: Wim

Wim — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 06:19:27 +0000

Not listening to the voice mails is just rude. Responding to a voice mail with a text or twitter is only ok if you actually expect the other person to see the message. As a person who’s been cell phone only for close to a decade, I expect that a text message will at least get seen in a reasonable amount of time. If I had a reliable way of getting to a persons voice mail without their phone ringing, I’d often respond to voice mail’s with voice mails, but I didn’t really want to get stuck in a conversation.

The one voice mail message that was always the least likely to get me to respond has been “Call me back.” with no further explanation.

By: Hamza Shaban

Hamza Shaban — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:00:11 +0000

Mathew, your paragraph on people being at different stages in communication tech and using those technologies for different purposes is spot on. Another consideration in the abundance of comm. tech is the notion of not-wanting-to-be-reached.

For example, being active on Facebook or Twitter, we are often consuming by reading. And at times we would rather not be bothered while doing this. In addition, the kind of open and public communication invites anyone and everyone to contact us, when, in many instances, we wish to be selective with whom we speak.

Just because a person has a mobile phone, doesn’t mean she has to answer it. (I feel sorry for Bilton’s dad!)

By: Helen

Helen — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 02:50:03 +0000

One aspect of jerk Bilton’s parents may be they don’t use Twitter. People don’t take into consideration that there are people out there that did not grow up with computers and are not so tech savvy as to use every form of communication that is available. I am one of those people as I have never used Twitter,

I believe jerk Bilton needs to take his father’s preference into consideration. He is sorely lacking in “manners and consideration”.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 23:58:35 +0000

oops, darn spelling auto-correct

“The medium is the mAssage”

(haha.. quite the irony: ‘auto-correct’ changing a context to a phrase about the medium, message, and context)

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 23:33:01 +0000

“The medium is the message”

Marshall McLuhan’s treatise remain ever salient.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Mcluhan

By: Maria Brophy

Maria Brophy — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:18:11 +0000

Call me old-fashioned, but I hardly text, and I will sometimes not even SEE a text until 2 days later. People who know me well know not to text me anything that needs immediate response!

I prefer to talk on the phone, keep it short, but get it all out in one shot. Or email, which is my 2nd preference.

But I can understand why people prefer texting and tweeting. It’s more efficient!