I heard on the radio recently that email is becoming the "old" way of communicating and that you can't expect someone to respond to your emails. Rather, twitter, facebook and texting have taken its place. Now call me old-school, but I just think this is ridiculous. Perhaps its because I sit at a computer all day long and a very large part of my job involves emailing back and forth, but I just can't believe that most people don't respond to their email and would rather communicate via facebook or text.
Am I completely wrong here? Do you respond to facebook messages or text messages before emails? What is your favored mode of communication?
Admittedly, I have found myself facebook messaging people lately. But I think this is due to not knowing someones email address. So I can see where facebook is becoming a means of staying in touch, but my go-to is not a facebook message, it is an email. And twitter as a way of staying in touch is just silly to me. My obsession with twitter lasted all of about 10 days and I now don't ever really log-on. I never really "got" it. I need more than 180 characters to say anything. I'm wordy, what can I say.
Seriously though, do y'all prefer texting or facebook over email?????
Definitely not, but I am old school. I still haven't made the leap to a smart phone. What can I say--I long for simpler times! :)
ReplyDeleteAre you talking about the Bert Show? They are idiots, and I hate when they say that about email.
ReplyDeleteIn THEIR business, it is one thing, for their fan base to FB or tweet them, and the show encourages that, to try and grow their brand.
For personal communication though, that is just absurd. Email IS the future, and the rest of it is (they DO call it social networking, after all) for SOCIAL purposes.
So, no friend. Email is not out. =)