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Phone call?

#281
gjohnson441496 said:
I agree. I don't mind reading long post if they are coherent and broken up in paragraphs. But, I'm an old fart. OTOH, wht I lke abt Twttr is tht preciseness is the point.
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When I first tried to use a smart phone to post on one of my favorite sites, the clumsiness of using it caused me to be over-brief when trying to make my point. Someone with a lot of pull with the owner of the site got their panties in a wad in their misunderstanding of my posts and the owner was probably enjoying a single malt or three at the time. They complained and I got banned without explanation. It was a site I'd been an active member of for 13 years at the time.

And time has proven, with many "infamous tweets", my theory that 140 characters is just enough to get you in big trouble, though every 500th tweet might be something quotable.

i.e. I avoid twitter like the plague.
 
#283
Jah Wobble Fan said:
I agree with your assessment that people today want "just the facts" as you put it. Don't give me the whole conversation, or the whole album, or the whole relationship: just the filet, please, be it via text, iTunes or Tinder.

Incidentally, same rules apply for those of you writing ten-paragraph posts in this thread: Do really think your banal observations merit so much real estate? Respect your audience by saying it in five sentences or less.
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Twitter attention spans bug me; I like reading long posts and listening to prog epics but in the popular world people want 2 minute songs. Reminds me of this:

 
#286
I've done gigs with guys that were total phone-o-phobes. I'd get emails with sound files and charts, location, time, load in, and the pay offer. Met at the club for the first time. I went through with it, but only because the guy that tossed the gig my way assured me that it was a real deal.

He emails me whenever he's up this way, sends the new stuff, and we repeat. It's a nice once or twice a year gig. We don't have to talk on the phone. Text and email is fine.

For a craigslist contact, we're going to talk before things go to the next level.. It's just a common sense screening.

Just this week, a guy wanted to buy a guitar I've got on Craigslist. He sent an offer via email, to be paid via PayPal. No big deal, I've done this kind of deal plenty of times here on TB. He provided a number, so to speed things up I (get this!) called him.

Nice guy, even upped the offer to cover shipping. But while we talked, I heard him talk about how important the color was. I had a half dozen, very nice pictures up with the ad. But hearing his concerns about color, I thought about how I'd shot this guitar, indoors, with regular light. He needed to drive home to do computer stuff so I used the ten minutes to take the guitar out in the sunlight and get 10 more photos. I emailed them along.

And we saved ourselves a lot of trouble. When I called him back, he didn't like the look in the brighter light. A few more pleasantries, and we were done. No problem.

I'm cool with the awesome tools we have. My iPad let me photograph and send photos in minutes. But the phone conversation saved us both a ton of hassle.
 
#287
Old Garage-Bander said:
It's probably not the people that are hard to understand, it's the crap audio quality of the calls.
I will agree that sometimes it is difficult to understand someone on a cell phone.
And if that is the case, then the conversation is better done as text.
The phone company use to have world class standards for how a phone call should sound. Sure it's only 3-4 KHz of bandwidth, but it was the best 3-4 KHz anywhere in the world. When the Fed split up the phone company the those standards began to decline. When cell phones came into being, audio quality went out the window altogether. So in that regard I can agree that it is much more difficult to carry on a phone conversation now than it was when I was being chased off some old guys lawn.
Did you know it used to be possible for people at both ends of a telephone conversation to speak at the same time and you could still understand the other person clearly? Now get off of my lawn, your blocking my cell phone signal!
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It wasn't so much the feds broke up Ma Bell as Ma Bell sucker punched them. Everybody was screaming about monopoly. And AT&T went along with it. And when the breakup came, Ma Bell unloaded it's antiquated and increasingly expensive to maintain local phone lines on the Baby Bells and kept its lucrative long-lines for itself. And it just did it again by unloading all its less profitable wired services onto some new small regional companies like Frontier, and only kept the amazingly profitable wireless part of their business.

Everybody wanted Bell broken up. And they got their wish. In the meantime, AT&T cried all the way to the bank.

Like they say: Be careful what you wish for. You just might get it.
 
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#289
Old Garage-Bander said:
What! What? You're an outgoing, personable, articulate, introvert?
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Yep! I am very good at engaging people in conversation, I'm very friendly, and I'm fairly well spoken. Being an introvert doesn't mean that I am lacking any of these characteristics. The difference between introverts and extroverts is how they behave when they need to recover after a hard day. The introvert wants time to him/herself, while the extrovert wants a night out.

I am good with people, but I become emotionally exhausted after awhile and just want to be alone.
 
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Bass'd on a true story said:
Yep! I am very good at engaging people in conversation, I'm very friendly, and I'm fairly well spoken. Being an introvert doesn't mean that I am lacking any of these characteristics. The difference between introverts and extroverts is how they behave when they need to recover after a hard day. The introvert wants time to him/herself, while the extrovert wants a night out.

I am good with people, but I become emotionally exhausted after awhile and just want to be alone.
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OK. Then I too am an introvert. After work, I like to crash as opposed to party. And it doesn't even have to be an emotionally exhausting day.
 
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Quite a nerve this touched. I do think it's a generational thing, with few exceptions.

I'm almost 25, but when I was 19 I had a full time job where 90% of my time involved cold calling people and having long, detailed conversations over the phone (background screening). Ever since then I've always preferred phone calls to anything and ask for that if possible.

At the same time, I'm totally fine with emails, group texts, and Facebook messages. You adapt to whoever you're talking to. But the vast majority of people I know my age HATE calling and avoid it whenever possible.
 
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