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I've taken to calling my friends on the phone over the past few months, after years of texting. I've let them know I'm going to try to do more of this and every

I've taken to calling my friends on the phone over the past few months, after years of texting. I've let them know I'm going to try to do more of this and everyone I've mentioned it to has responded positively. We've decided that even if we just have a moment and want to share something funny or interesting, we're going to try to have a quick phone conversation. This has helped me feel more connected to the people who I don't see in person frequently in a way that feels more "real" than texts or emails.

jmg2 7y ago
You just jogged memory, but I recall having a option to send by "text" message, a audio clip, on my phone. That's a distant memory, despite owning a s10e ONly 9 weeks... I would have refused the consignment, if asked to inspect the ui/ux of current mobile phones, on approval for my business. Nit so flippantly is not any downloaded constantly updated software by definition a sake remote at distance so subject to distance selling rules? You say "funny or interesting " That's set me off on obe but please bear with me, the path to my point matters because it's a whole industry that vanished ironically silently...and I swear I can teach talkers to code better than vice versa and this matters profoundly to me. And anyone trying to settle a balance of payments FX deficit post Brexit.... A trillion dollar market vanished with the fading if synchrony of voice communications in business: directly published trade vertical and association msmagazines lived by smiling and dialling and provided countless routes into industry "by the back door " for young men and women who missed their job offer targets and similar that makes selling advertising in the field of your choice not retrograde af all. Not do much wrong spending a year talking with your future professions senior managers about what they're telling the world about. Couple hundred thousand magazines dobt have sales functions, effectively. This was my business. In '04 Google wrote off a whole load ABD quit trying to get ad pages to tradd online and shortly afterwards we ONKY didn't sell ourselves when my cofounder died tragically, and I realised that the scale we lacked meant if I argued they key man was more me bejbv baby sat than my partner being the key man in cold business terms, still we didn't know if we'd hit a different brick wall moment we gained scale. My hunch was correct. But you could have saved the industry in 04, less so now . Ugly ugly politics trumped the logic and are the real obstacle to revival, not, or not any mire, the math of micromarkets that, plys some actually fun stuff, took me away for the years since then till late. I'm deeply concerned actually how much we may be losing because just one salesman who I knew, any one, could make a party or conference gathering, electric and exchange immensely greater than ever that group would otherwise. My life has been immersed in professionally invigorating conversation, until recently. I have just now realised it is by being absent, devastating ne mentally.
- wbronitsky 7y ago
  can we ban this user? They are posting incoherent nonsense that seems computer generated
  - DanBC 7y ago
    Click the timestamp of the message, then click the [flag] entry.
    - wbronitsky 7y ago
      I did that, but I cannot go flagging every message. To me, it is quite clear that this is abuse, and the account should be banned without me having to sleuth about for more posts like this.
      - DanBC 7y ago
        Email the mods. Their address is found in the guidelines linked in the footer.
  - pests 7y ago
    I honestly have to disagree. It does seem incoherent but if you read the intent behind each sentence he seems to be telling a story with some bitter moments from his past scattered between his profile and comments. I would usually be quick to point out weirdness but I can logically follow each of his comments. Please consider jmg2 may be sick or unwell.
randycupertino 7y ago
Also have done this with my friend circle as I extracted myself from social media (instagram and facebook). I have a lot better relationship with my family and friends now that we catch up on the phone other than just clicking "like" on the scroll of everyone's photos. You basically just have to make time for it. I call people when I'm walking the dog and when I'm commuting.

jmg2 7y ago

You just jogged memory, but I recall having a option to send by "text" message, a audio clip, on my phone. That's a distant memory, despite owning a s10e ONly 9 weeks... I would have refused the consignment, if asked to inspect the ui/ux of current mobile phones, on approval for my business. Nit so flippantly is not any downloaded constantly updated software by definition a sake remote at distance so subject to distance selling rules? You say "funny or interesting " That's set me off on obe but please bear with me, the path to my point matters because it's a whole industry that vanished ironically silently...and I swear I can teach talkers to code better than vice versa and this matters profoundly to me. And anyone trying to settle a balance of payments FX deficit post Brexit.... A trillion dollar market vanished with the fading if synchrony of voice communications in business: directly published trade vertical and association msmagazines lived by smiling and dialling and provided countless routes into industry "by the back door " for young men and women who missed their job offer targets and similar that makes selling advertising in the field of your choice not retrograde af all. Not do much wrong spending a year talking with your future professions senior managers about what they're telling the world about. Couple hundred thousand magazines dobt have sales functions, effectively. This was my business. In '04 Google wrote off a whole load ABD quit trying to get ad pages to tradd online and shortly afterwards we ONKY didn't sell ourselves when my cofounder died tragically, and I realised that the scale we lacked meant if I argued they key man was more me bejbv baby sat than my partner being the key man in cold business terms, still we didn't know if we'd hit a different brick wall moment we gained scale. My hunch was correct. But you could have saved the industry in 04, less so now . Ugly ugly politics trumped the logic and are the real obstacle to revival, not, or not any mire, the math of micromarkets that, plys some actually fun stuff, took me away for the years since then till late. I'm deeply concerned actually how much we may be losing because just one salesman who I knew, any one, could make a party or conference gathering, electric and exchange immensely greater than ever that group would otherwise. My life has been immersed in professionally invigorating conversation, until recently. I have just now realised it is by being absent, devastating ne mentally.

wbronitsky 7y ago
can we ban this user? They are posting incoherent nonsense that seems computer generated
- DanBC 7y ago
  Click the timestamp of the message, then click the [flag] entry.
  - wbronitsky 7y ago
    I did that, but I cannot go flagging every message. To me, it is quite clear that this is abuse, and the account should be banned without me having to sleuth about for more posts like this.
    - DanBC 7y ago
      Email the mods. Their address is found in the guidelines linked in the footer.
- pests 7y ago
  I honestly have to disagree. It does seem incoherent but if you read the intent behind each sentence he seems to be telling a story with some bitter moments from his past scattered between his profile and comments. I would usually be quick to point out weirdness but I can logically follow each of his comments. Please consider jmg2 may be sick or unwell.

randycupertino 7y ago

Also have done this with my friend circle as I extracted myself from social media (instagram and facebook). I have a lot better relationship with my family and friends now that we catch up on the phone other than just clicking "like" on the scroll of everyone's photos. You basically just have to make time for it. I call people when I'm walking the dog and when I'm commuting.