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The Annoyed Man wrote: OK, I'll agree with this. Example....... I do occasionally send and receive text messages from my phone, but I refuse to use texting as my primary means of communication. I mentor young men at my church, and sponsor others in CR, and the younger ones seem to think that texting is a perfectly normal means of communication......but I maintain that you CANNOT have a satisfactory conversation with someone by texting. If someone wants to have a conversation with me, CALL me. Texting is a lousy way to communicate. It takes longer too to type a lot of words out, then simply phoning and speaking. But a lot young whippersnappers would rather text.

I don't get it.

Just personal opinion but I think texting has flourished for several reasons. I think people like to think that they can "multitask". They think they can keep several conversation going at the same time hoping back and forth. If one is running 4 conversations I think each conversation is probably getting about 20% of the whole attention span with the remaining 20% going in to lost productivity and conversational overhead and distraction. I also think people like to text because they don't have to face the consequences of a real life conversation. They can text and run to turn a phrase. They can drive by and deliver some piece of info and keep on going. Returning to the conversation when they feel like it. They can escape the conversation itself and not have to deal with handling it... Probably lots of reasons.

We are raising a nation of zombies. The other day I was walking through the store and a mom was pushing her cart and right behind her came her three little zombies. Probably aged 5-8, each one their nose almost stuck to their own iPads. Making all kinds of beeps and whistles. One was watching cartoons. She walked right into my cart and said ouch. Mom looked over at me and gave me a dirty look. I started to say "hey your kid cant watch where they are going with their nose stuck in an ipad" but didn't want more aggravation that day so I just walked away...

mojo84 wrote:"1400 network servers"? That is a huge company.

Bank... Lots of VMware servers out there.

paperchunker wrote:I love my new Samsung Galaxy Note 3.. I would hate to go back to the 80's when I had to carry a pager and a roll of quarters and know where the pay phones were..

My brother from another mother!!

Long live the Galaxy Note 3! Some say it's too much phone... Or it's too much computer... It's too big... The battery life is too long!

I say give me my Samsung Galaxy Note 3 or give me... Okay now where was I... Maybe not that crazy but I LOVE my Note 3. I use it for everything. Only use it for music repository when I am driving, and I only use it for movies when I am flying or have some serious downtime. Currently have Pitch Black, Chronicles or Riddick and Riddick, and Jungle Book on it. I text only 1 person my wife.

Other than that I have
Ultimate guitar tab and a ton of tab
Guitar tuner
Metronome
Grocery IQ shopping list manager
Geico insurance card thingy
All of my bank and credit card accounts
Google sky maps
Manage my home security system
Manage my home thermostats
Manage all of my door locks, lights and garage door
Pay my bills
Manage my TiVo dvr
Remote control for my home theater
I have just two games and a photo puzzle app.

Other than that I can see all of our 1400 network servers and touch every desktop in the entire company. I also manage my 6 personal and 3 work email accounts. Yeah I know email is old school but it works for me...

So I pretty much live on my phone. That said when I get home the phone goes on the charger until I leave the next morning or if it's a date night or away time the phone goes into silent mode. The only electronics allowed when I am with my wife out at dinner is her ipad air. We play scrabble with each other at dinner. It's either that or talk time. Works well for us.

My sister inlaw and her husband come over for dinner and their noses are in their phones 80% of the time they are there. Drives me nuts! We can be sitting there eating dinner and they have their phones out. I look over at my wife and grimace and she silently mouths "sorry" to me. Zombies...