Dear vip
I’m really enjoying having you back on our forums and providing your posts. Another very insightful one – indepth, genuine and honest. I think anyone who’s been on this site now for a bit of time knows my opinion of facebook, which I believe is now YOUR opinion too.
I think back to when I first started my work career (1984) – I started in a typing pool – yes, possibly the first male typist on a Commonwealth Govt Department and yes, I could do shorthand as well. My point here is though – computers for everyone, ah no. We had the most basic of all computers in the typing pool. People would write down their work/minutes/letters, etc on A4 paper and send it down to the typing pool to be typed up.
Mobile phones in those days? I think someone said that a person had one – but we didn’t believe them, that person always tended to exaggerate.
My point is: in their own special way, those days were more relaxed and easier to handle to deal with. People would walk along and would look at the sky, at the trees; on buses, sometimes people would talk or they’d simply check out what was going on outside.
Now, check people out – they can’t go very far without having their nose in their phone, etc. The thing that always amuses me, and will do so again in a few days time when we fly out – you get to your destination and as soon as people are off the plane, they’re diving in their pockets for their phone. You know, they might have ‘missed a call’?
I have one of the oldest phones going – I can do 4 things on it: make calls, do texts, use my alarm and play the snake game where it eats squares and gets longer. Although haven’t played that for over two years now.
Cheers
Neil
