|
» GC Stats |
Members: 329,899
Threads: 115,689
Posts: 2,207,136
|
| Welcome to our newest member, lithicwillow |
|
 |
09-14-2010, 04:36 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 1,385
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by MysticCat
Trust me, those of us who went to college without facebook, Twither, instant messaging and *gasp* even cell phones had plenty of other ways to mismanage our time.
|
LOL, I did go to college back then.  You forgot we didn't have email and had to hide in closets if we wanted to have a private conversation, because the phones were still attached to the wall.
I do agree that FB is a great tool to get back in touch with people that you don't really have time for daily interactions with, but when I took classes over the last couple of years, it would drive me bonkers when students were texting while professors were lecturing (because I had to keep hearing all the buzzing) and couldn't believe when students took calls during class. It was often difficult to get a computer in the lab and nearly impossible in the library because of FB and MySpace.
__________________
...To love life and joyously live each day to its ultimate good...
|
09-15-2010, 08:40 AM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: May 2002
Location: A dark and very expensive forest
Posts: 12,737
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by RaggedyAnn
LOL, I did go to college back then. You forgot we didn't have email and had to hide in closets if we wanted to have a private conversation, because the phones were still attached to the wall.
I do agree that FB is a great tool to get back in touch with people that you don't really have time for daily interactions with, but when I took classes over the last couple of years, it would drive me bonkers when students were texting while professors were lecturing (because I had to keep hearing all the buzzing) and couldn't believe when students took calls during class. It was often difficult to get a computer in the lab and nearly impossible in the library because of FB and MySpace. |
Ah, phones attached to the walls. Raise your hand if they had rotary dials. 
I agree that those are problems, but they're not communication or time-management problems. They're courtesy, respect and boundary problems.
__________________
AMONG MEN HARMONY
18▲98
|
09-15-2010, 10:49 AM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 13,593
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by MysticCat
Ah, phones attached to the walls. Raise your hand if they had rotary dials.
I agree that those are problems, but they're not communication or time-management problems. They're courtesy, respect and boundary problems. |
Man, text messaging would have taken forever with a rotary phone...
__________________
From the SigmaTo the K!
Polyamorous, Pansexual and Proud of it!
It Gets Better
|
09-15-2010, 10:53 AM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: The Ozdust Ballroom
Posts: 14,837
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Drolefille
Man, text messaging would have taken forever with a rotary phone...
|
*rimshot*
__________________
Facile remedium est ubertati; sterilia nullo labore vincuntur.
I think pearls are lovely, especially when you need something to clutch. ~ AzTheta
The Real World Can't Hear You ~ GC Troll
|
09-15-2010, 10:58 AM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 13,593
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by AlphaFrog
*rimshot*
|
R.......... I...... M.......... S............ H..... O.......... T..............
See. It'd take forever.
__________________
From the SigmaTo the K!
Polyamorous, Pansexual and Proud of it!
It Gets Better
|
09-15-2010, 11:34 AM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: State of Imagination
Posts: 3,400
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Drolefille
Man, text messaging would have taken forever with a rotary phone...
|
A friend of mine in high school's parents still had a rotary phone in 1988. By choice. With a rotary, there was no call waiting. I was never good at dialing rotary phones. It usually took at least two or three tries. 
Back then, you also dialed "0" to reach an operator who could:
- Help you make international, collect, "person to person" and multiple-party calls
- Interrupt phone calls for an emergency (before/without call waiting, if the phone number was in use, you got a busy signal).
- Provide phone numbers
- Call the police/fire/ambulance, etc. As a little kid, I was taught "0" and not 911.
- Tell you the time. We did this when power went out and you needed to know the time, during the power outage, and when it came back (to reset your clocks). No, we never wore watches, lol.
- Help you with phone service problems.
__________________
|
09-15-2010, 12:09 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: but I am le tired...
Posts: 7,282
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by ree-Xi
Back then, you also dialed "0" to reach an operator who could:
- Help you make international, collect, "person to person" and multiple-party calls
- Interrupt phone calls for an emergency (before/without call waiting, if the phone number was in use, you got a busy signal).
- Provide phone numbers
- Call the police/fire/ambulance, etc. As a little kid, I was taught "0" and not 911.
- Tell you the time. We did this when power went out and you needed to know the time, during the power outage, and when it came back (to reset your clocks). No, we never wore watches, lol.
- Help you with phone service problems.
|
My grandmother was one of these operators. I like 411, but they don't do all that!
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
Hybrid Mode
