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As the title, I have no email address, that's not to say I haven't got the use of one if I need it, Lynn mi missus, has a couple

I think that I've used it possibly half a dozen times for my sole use with her guidance :lol:

Now this got me :thinking:, am I the only one that lives a happy life without a lot of this modern communication?.

I have no facebook account, no ebay,paypal account, have never twitted (wouldn't know where to start ) no msn. I've heard of something called Skype, that's as close as I've come to that :shrug:.......... its only 3 months ago we upgraded to sky plus:lol:

I don't do internet banking, although I do have accesses to my account if I want it.

I have a mobile phone with buttons, none of this touch screen stuff, Lynn as one and I always touch the wrong bit!:bang:

Away from modern communication the list goes on with other things..............I still use 45yr old forklift truck! :lol:

So......am I the only one still living in the dark ages through choice :cuckoo:
 
Phil-D said:
As the title, I have no email address, that's not to say I haven't got the use of one if I need it, Lynn mi missus, has a couple

I think that I've used it possibly half a dozen times for my sole use with her guidance :lol:

Now this got me :thinking:, am I the only one that lives a happy life without a lot of this modern communication?.

I have no facebook account, no ebay,paypal account, have never twitted (wouldn't know where to start ) no msn. I've heard of something called Skype, that's as close as I've come to that :shrug:.......... its only 3 months ago we upgraded to sky plus:lol:

I don't do internet banking, although I do have accesses to my account if I want it.

I have a mobile phone with buttons, none of this touch screen stuff, Lynn as one and I always touch the wrong bit!:bang:

Away from modern communication the list goes on with other things..............I still use 45yr old forklift truck! :lol:

So......am I the only one still living in the dark ages through choice :cuckoo:
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Touching your misses wrong bits will not get you in her good books!:D
 
If you have no e-mail address how did you register on here? There's probably a rule that says you must use your own e-mail for registration.
 
I like skype very much. My wife is working in Denmark at the moment, and we can speak, free, for as long as we like, with with a video link. Her family live in Canada, my brother lives in Singapore, we both use it for work as well. Brilliant!
 
Phil-D said:
Now this got me :thinking:, am I the only one that lives a happy life without a lot of this modern communication?.
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Said on an internet messageboard to a few thousand readers...

The day I stop doing photogrpahy as a business is the day i cut the internet out of my life for good.....
 
Phil-D said:
Now this got me :thinking:, am I the only one that lives a happy life without a lot of this modern communication?.
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Web based fora are way more modern than email, just so you know. There was no www, never mind web forums, when I sent my first email message in 1987 (yes there was usenet and bulletin boards). So you are posting a message on a more modern form of communication than the one you say you don't have as it is too modern.

/scratches head in puzzlement.
 
I just returned a smart phone back to Virgin and bought a Nokia 100 for a tenner instead. Much better.

What is Sky+?
 
I'm 60. Grew up with dial telephones; personal computers, fax, the internet/web and cellphones were still in the future and it was just fine, because that's all there was, and all we knew.

I now have several computers, the internet, email, a cellphone and a Garmin GPS device. Losing them wouldn't be life threatening, but it would be a serious pain in the neck from a business point of view. I'm currently in another country too, so I use Skype for overseas calls. We don't have television because neither of us are interested in it, and our 'sound system' is a CD/tape/radio combo that we bought for the kids years ago. It's good enough for the rare occaisons when we want to listen to music.

You're not living in the dark ages, just making personal choices that work for you. Most of us do that.
 
For some things, email is really useful, but at work... It's work email that is a total nightmare (I work in a largish public sector organisation) with a lot of people who just seem to sit on their arse sending out bulk generic banal missives all day.

I've come to the conclusion these people are time thieves who don't really deserve my time. I check my email maybe once a day and I take one look at who an email is from and just bin it without even reading it.

I also get bored of people using the Cc function to try and abdicate responsibility

Oh, and the people who follow up an email if you don't reply within 5 minutes.

Since I stopped reacting to email I reckon my productivity has improved by an hour a day at least.
 
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No, you're not the only one, although I do use email.

I don't watch tv, or read newspapers. I got rid of facebook. Twitter is linked to my blog, so my blog tweets the url of my lastest post. I have a touch screen phone, reluctantly and use 2 apps - whatsapp and a weather app.
 
I'm with you on a few things Phil-D.

I do use
Ebay,
Paypal,
the Web for loads of things (shopping is so easy online),
Skype,
I have used MSN (does this still exist?), and
I use email.

My phone also has buttons and I don't have a Facebook or Twitter account (I can't work out why I would want them. Can someone enlighten me?)

Dave
 
Cg_Girl said:
Touching your misses wrong bits will not get you in her good books!:D
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Touching her right bits doesn't always get me in her good books either :whistling::naughty:

mickledore said:
If you have no e-mail address how did you register on here? There's probably a rule that says you must use your own e-mail for registration.
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I hope you hit the report button :p


jon ryan said:
I like skype very much. My wife is working in Denmark at the moment, and we can speak, free, for as long as we like, with with a video link. Her family live in Canada, my brother lives in Singapore, we both use it for work as well. Brilliant!
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Sounds like it works for you jon :thumbs:....like I said, I wouldn't know where to start........one day I may move into the 21st century :lol:

KIPAX said:
Said on an internet messageboard to a few thousand readers...

The day I stop doing photogrpahy as a business is the day i cut the internet out of my life for good.....
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I did say I had a mobile phone....... I haven't cut communication out completely

neil_g said:
what i was thinking.. dont you have a confirmation email with a link to click for this place?
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fabs said:
I'm guessing he used his wife's email address. ;)
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:whistling: :naughty:

neil_g said:
:coat:
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Shut the door on your way out will ya! :p

onomatopoeia said:
Web based fora are way more modern than email, just so you know. There was no www, never mind web forums, when I sent my first email message in 1987 (yes there was usenet and bulletin boards). So you are posting a message on a more modern form of communication than the one you say you don't have as it is too modern.

/scratches head in puzzlement.
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Your puzzled!....So am I.....and I've read that 3 times now :shrug:

On the Huh said:
I just returned a smart phone back to Virgin and bought a Nokia 100 for a tenner instead. Much better.

What is Sky+?
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3 and a half months ago........I was asking the same question ;)
 
cuthbert said:
For some things, email is really useful, but at work... It's work email that is a total nightmare (I work in a largish public sector organisation) with a lot of people who just seem to sit on their arse sending out bulk generic banal missives all day.

I've come to the conclusion these people are time thieves who don't really deserve my time. I check my email maybe once a day and I take one look at who an email is from and just bin it without even reading it.

I also get bored of people using the Cc function to try and abdicate responsibility

Oh, and the people who follow up an email if you don't reply within 5 minutes.

Since I stopped reacting to email I reckon my productivity has improved by an hour a day at least.
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Cuthbert........I've had to google some of the things you've said above..........and I'm still no wiser........I'll just have to agree with you :lol:




Tringa said:
I'm with you on a few things Phil-D.

I do use
Ebay,
Paypal,
the Web for loads of things (shopping is so easy online),
Skype,
I have used MSN (does this still exist?), and
I use email.

My phone also has buttons and I don't have a Facebook or Twitter account (I can't work out why I would want them. Can someone enlighten me?)

Dave
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Apparently, to have a facebook account, you need to have friends.......or have I got that wrong and its to collect random strangers so it looks like you have friends :shrug:
 
The technologies are available, just choose what you want and ignore the rest if you're not interested. I use computers, the internet/web, mail and a few other things, but don't have a Facebook or Twitter account because they wouldn't serve any purpose for me. My kids - grown up - do use Facebook occasionally, maybe once or twice a week, to stay in touch with friends and their cousins overseas.

Mail overload in workplaces is mainly caused by a lack of, or poor, management policies. This can be corrected. Many companies I work with also restrict access to social networking sites during working hours.
 
MartynK said:
Mail overload in workplaces is mainly caused by a lack of, or poor, management policies. This can be corrected. Many companies I work with also restrict access to social networking sites during working hours.
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We block it completely even at lunch, before and after hours. Only our marketing dept has it.
 
I use email, twitter, Facebook, eBay, PayPal, Skype, app.net, Internet banking, the Internet, a smart phone and all the other modern things the world today offers regularly too.

I guess that makes me a bad person! :D
 
neil_g said:
We block it completely even at lunch, before and after hours. Only our marketing dept has it.
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Yeah, there are various policies. I've come across the one you describe, and others where web access is only available to employees who actually need it, and only to sites approved by their manager. Just as a matter of interest, how do you control use of cellphones? I've worked with clients who don't allow them in the workplace at all - this is usually a security restriction - or insist that they're switched off during working hours.
 
MartynK said:
Yeah, there are various policies. I've come across the one you describe, and others where web access is only available to employees who actually need it, and only to sites approved by their manager. Just as a matter of interest, how do you control use of cellphones? I've worked with clients who don't allow them in the workplace at all - this is usually a security restriction - or insist that they're switched off during working hours.
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We don't (although I can't think of any specific policy HR might take action if it was flagged that the employee takes the pee).

I know of at least 1 user that used to use their iPhone as a hotspot.. However she only did it to book cinema tickets and the Empire site wasn't iOS friendly at the time.
 
fabs said:
I'm glad I don't work for those companies. We have full access here, we're just trusted to use it sensibly.
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Fine, it would be wonderful if all employers and employees had that sort of relationship, but unfortunately it's not always the case. The clients I worked with are in South Africa where residential broadband access is quite expensive and not always available. They found that quite a lot of staff thought that unlimited and unrestricted internet access at work was a "perk" they were entitled to, resulting in wasted time, network and bandwidth congestion and inappropriate behaviour that conflicted with HR policies. Imposing bans and restrictions was usually a last resort after repeated warnings had no effect. Some clients had tight restrictions, a ban on cellphones - actually a ban on phones with cameras, but it's easier to just ban phones completely - and other policies for security reasons. These applied to everyone, including the CEO.
 
neil_g said:
up until about 4-5 years ago it was litterally a free for all. we had people downloading from iTunes (one of the more legal ones) and all sorts. getting bandwidth for legitimate business traffic was a nightmare.
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I guess it depends on the composition of the workforce, we are five programmers and one admin person. No imposed restrictions on internet use. Or contractual restrictions for that matter, we have no internet use policy at all. The only thing I have ever been told about telecommunications on work time is when I started working here I was asked not to make personal calls that are long distance during peak rate - this was when calls were more expensive before lunchtime.

Everyone understands that a 2Mbps ADSL connection is not going to cope well if we are all trying to stream video or torrent stuff, so they don't do it. If they want to download something not work related, they do it at home. Plus we need to allow out a wide variety of ports, protocols etc as there are all the various servers around the world to admin, so blocking stuff will just cause a massive pain in the bum at some point (and in any case, no-one can be arsed to set it up, least of all our employer).

I use it for online banking, and forums when I need a few minutes' break from whatever problem I'm trying to solve (and it's too soon to make another cup of tea instead).

We also have no restrictions on what software we can install, but anyone who screws up their computer by installing something bad is expected to fix it themselves. We don't have an IT department to sort stuff out.
 
Uh huh. I was thinking about companies with several hundred people in the same building, many - sometimes most - of whom didn't have internet access at home, or just didn't want to use up their cap for the month when they could play on the web and download stuff at work!
 
cuthbert said:
For some things, email is really useful, but at work... It's work email that is a total nightmare (I work in a largish public sector organisation) with a lot of people who just seem to sit on their arse sending out bulk generic banal missives all day.

I've come to the conclusion these people are time thieves who don't really deserve my time. I check my email maybe once a day and I take one look at who an email is from and just bin it without even reading it.

I also get bored of people using the Cc function to try and abdicate responsibility

Oh, and the people who follow up an email if you don't reply within 5 minutes.

Since I stopped reacting to email I reckon my productivity has improved by an hour a day at least.
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I love how its always the other public sector workers who are the problem never them :lol:

Steve
 
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