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Tech friends-do you have one?
Posted 07-11-2009 at 07:23 AM by Sandra Bostwick
This morning, I'll be going to a seminar with a tech friend. Her name is Doreen, and she is a business friend who I first met on the phone and continued to chat about dreams, goals, and creativity on the phone and online. It is a little strange that we will actually be in the same room!
She does alot of traveling with her market research job and, since her hubby is not one to hang on the phone for hours, I get to be one of the people she talks to on her cell phone in various cars and airports.
One of us is usually commuting someplace whenever we talk on our cell phones (always hands free-officer!) Often one of us is shopping, having lunch at a table for one, rushing a forgotten piece of sports equipment to an event (that would be Doreen for her son), sitting in traffic, but only a handful of times have we been in the same location.
There are also emails that go back and forth. Inspirational forwards, files of lectures we liked, book reviews, newsletters on a monitor.
I think back to when phones were connected to a cord. When I was really little, actually, it was a REALLY LITTLE cord. I mean, you couldn't even get to the fridge for a soda without putting the phone down! When I was little, our phone was in the hallway and your seating options were a wooden chair or a three foot space on the floor before the phone pulled at you. A busy lifestyle would interfere with any sort of long phone call.
Even when they came out with those LOOOOOOONG cords that could reach other rooms, you were still stuck. Maybe you could putter about the house, but you couldn't chat while you were at the bank drive-through or standing in line at the post office.
I guess in five or so years, we've actually seen each other on MAYBE eight occasions, but I suspect we know more about each other than most.
If it wasn't for technology, cell phones and computers, and the general demands of our lives would certainly have kept us from this virtual friendship.
Do you have any tech friends? Has convenience communication of cell phones and computers helped you keep in touch with someone? Is it OK to multitask when talking to a friend?
She does alot of traveling with her market research job and, since her hubby is not one to hang on the phone for hours, I get to be one of the people she talks to on her cell phone in various cars and airports.
One of us is usually commuting someplace whenever we talk on our cell phones (always hands free-officer!) Often one of us is shopping, having lunch at a table for one, rushing a forgotten piece of sports equipment to an event (that would be Doreen for her son), sitting in traffic, but only a handful of times have we been in the same location.
There are also emails that go back and forth. Inspirational forwards, files of lectures we liked, book reviews, newsletters on a monitor.
I think back to when phones were connected to a cord. When I was really little, actually, it was a REALLY LITTLE cord. I mean, you couldn't even get to the fridge for a soda without putting the phone down! When I was little, our phone was in the hallway and your seating options were a wooden chair or a three foot space on the floor before the phone pulled at you. A busy lifestyle would interfere with any sort of long phone call.
Even when they came out with those LOOOOOOONG cords that could reach other rooms, you were still stuck. Maybe you could putter about the house, but you couldn't chat while you were at the bank drive-through or standing in line at the post office.
I guess in five or so years, we've actually seen each other on MAYBE eight occasions, but I suspect we know more about each other than most.
If it wasn't for technology, cell phones and computers, and the general demands of our lives would certainly have kept us from this virtual friendship.
Do you have any tech friends? Has convenience communication of cell phones and computers helped you keep in touch with someone? Is it OK to multitask when talking to a friend?
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Tags: cell phones, communication, friend, multitask, technology
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Yes, yes, and yes.
Technology has enabled my sister and me to become closer and can call one another "friend" also; because of the use of instant messaging.
I don't know what I'd have done the last couple of years without a cell phone for our son. It has been a comfort (ill placed perhaps) just knowing he could contact us if he needed us while he has begun to test his wings. My mother must've worried herself ever so much more while we were growing up. We now ask, "Is your cell phone charged" instead of "Do you have a dime or quarter in your pocket in case you need to call".
And what in the world did I ever do before the ability to search on the internet for old friends, and make new ones with the same interests, like PP.0 Pixie Dust
Posted 07-11-2009 at 12:57 PM by GoofEme 
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Good points, Jamie!
The funniest thing happened when my tech friend showed up! She texted my cell to say she was there and I texted her that I'd be right out. When I got there, she was on her blackberry speaking to a friend who was going to the same meeting and was lost. She was looking at the directions that she'd just looked up on her blackberry.
This tech age really is something!0 Pixie Dust
Posted 07-11-2009 at 06:00 PM by Sandra Bostwick
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I don't have that much technology - Jay has a cell phone but it is used hardly ever. I actually don't want a cell phone.
I like being in the car in the quiet, or either listening to music. I can't imagine having enough to say to stay on the phone all day. However, I do think it's a good thing if used properly. It truly is amazing what can be done electronically now!0 Pixie Dust
Posted 07-13-2009 at 08:35 PM by christiejay
