communication
August 3rd, 2009 |Feel more efficient now days? Or less so?
My wife and I were talking about our modern age of communication and how neither of us feels like we have the ability to stay on top of all of our ongoing correspondence both personal and professional.
E-mails go unanswered, voice mails ignored, etc.
It’s like there is a constant barrage of messaging that hits us every single day via TV and the internet. How can we possibly take it in and response to it all? It’s impossible.
Is it just us? Can you keep up with it all? How much of it just turns into background noise for you?
How many unanswered messages in your inbox? How many voice mails returned? Do you time to read a book or a newspaper anymore?
Are you more connected? Less connected? Over connected?
16 Responses to “communication”
is this about the time i inadvertently twittered at you during you guys’ date?
omg. if you leave me a voicemail i will be pissed off.
i do not have time to listen.
@EmilyB: my wife grabbed my iPhone and would not let me have it back until after dinner…
I’ll save this to Desktop and tweet you to FB with an answer.
Date? Married people don’t have fucking dates! Call it what it is. We pawned the kids off on Grandma or some shithead tween (not Super Rookie) who we pay 5 dollars an hour to babysit and complain about the 5 dollars an hour.
I feel more efficient, but chained to connections. You can’t return an email, tweet, vm, dm, text the next day like you could in the days of answering machines. If you don’t respond in an hour or less, you are being hit by another form of communication.
@Ray: $5 an hour? Where? Then again we do have two kids so it cost us $10 an hour. sigh…
WHAT? I could be getting $5 an hour??? That’s half of what I made in my lifetime hourly !! I’ve been robbed and I need justice!
@Ray: yea, we pay $10 and don’t bitch about it. we bitch about the fact that we can’t go out more often.
I charge $7 an hour. Going rate for this tweener.
@Super Rookie: Do you have your own car or do we need to give you a ride?
@Charlie Anderson: It would be great if you could pick me up, but I need to check with my mom to see what time I need to be home to feed the cats.
SR- does Sarah know you are selling your tweener online for $7/hr?
Good post, it got me thinkin’…
Merlin Mann has a few interesting takes on this subject:
John Gruber & Merlin Mann’s Blogging Panel at SxSW
Google Tech Talk: Inbox Zero
@montyp: Who do you think put the ad on Craigslist?