{"id":126,"date":"2019-02-19T22:38:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T03:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crobrun.com\/?p=126"},"modified":"2019-02-19T22:38:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T03:38:06","slug":"your-technology-is-making-me-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crobrun.com\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"YOUR TECHNOLOGY IS MAKING ME CRAZY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My first\nencounter with computers was in 1971 when I decided to sign up for computer\nprogramming classes at the Electronic Computer Programming Institute (ECPI).&nbsp; I think that ECPI was one of the first\ncomputer training centers in the country and today ECPI University has degrees\nin everything from computers to nursing.&nbsp;\nFrom my first day at ECPI until today, I have absolutely loved computers.\nI spent most of the 1980\u2019s as a Systems Engineer, traveling the world installing\nsystems and teaching others to use them.&nbsp;\nI met my wife of more than thirty years while teaching systems operation\nin South Carolina in 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that you\nknow how much I love, and not hate computers, hopefully you will understand that\nmy issues aren\u2019t with computers and smart phones, but with the people who use\nthem.&nbsp; You see, some of you people are\nmaking me crazy with how you use email, text messages and your cell phone.&nbsp; Here are just a couple of examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Email Only Please<\/strong> &#8211; I really don\u2019t like you people, you act as though talking is a crime or perhaps it\u2019s like having a tooth pulled.\u00a0 You send everything via \u00a0email because you think that it\u2019s better to have everything in writing.\u00a0 Why is it that people can\u2019t see that email in most cases is about as clear as mud!\u00a0 Not does email not clarify things, it often fosters misunderstandings.\u00a0 I\u2019ve seen email threads that go on for days because people simply won\u2019t either pickup or answer the phone. \u00a0This despite the fact that the question or issue could have been resolved in minutes by having a verbal conversation. \u00a0I think that many people like email so much because it allows them to say things that they would never say in a face to face or telephone conversation.\u00a0 Here\u2019s an idea that we can all use; read your email a couple of times before pressing send, and if it\u2019s not something that you would say to that person\u2019s face, delete it.\u00a0 By doing so, you might keep a friend or better still not blow that big deal at work that you\u2019ve been working so hard on for weeks. <\/li><li>Next up are you \u201c<strong>Reply All<\/strong>\u201d people for which I am certain there\u2019s a special place in hell.\u00a0 So, someone sends an email to a group of let\u2019s say 30 people for an upcoming meeting and request that you RSVP.\u00a0 The appropriate response would be for everyone to reply, back to the person who sent the original email with a yes or no reply, but that almost never happens.\u00a0 More often than not, over half of the people to whom the email was sent will reply all.\u00a0 This means that the rest of the group will now get your message, as though everyone cares if you can make the meeting or not.\u00a0 This also means that the rest of us will get ten to twenty replies that we didn\u2019t ask for and don\u2019t really care about and now we have to delete.\u00a0 The reply all button should only be used if what you have to say is relevant to everyone listed, if that isn\u2019t the case, then just reply, back to the originator.\u00a0 I once got an email from the Hispanic Agent\u2019s Association that was sent to more than 300 people and took me 3 days before I could get myself removed. I had to delete several hundred emails because everyone kept replying to all.\u00a0 I know that for the most part there aren\u2019t any rules when it comes to email, but at some point, common sense needs to prevail.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/li><li><strong>Hang up and call back people<\/strong> \u2013 yes, you know who you are, and you\u2019re going to be sharing that cell in hell with the reply all guy.\u00a0 I know that I can\u2019t be the only person who hates it when someone calls my number and I\u2019m either on the other line or busy doing something else that prevents me from answering and some idiot just hangs up and calls right back.\u00a0 Did it ever occur to you that there might be a good reason why I didn\u2019t answer?\u00a0 The sole purpose for voice mail is so that if someone doesn\u2019t answer you can leave a message.\u00a0 Sometimes the same person will hang up and call back two or three times and never leave a message.\u00a0 Now I know who it is because they come up on the call log, but I refuse to call them back simply because he\/she is just so annoying.\u00a0 I know that we\u2019re all important (at least in our own minds), but if you call someone and get their voicemail, just leave a message.\u00a0 If they want to talk to you, they\u2019ll call you back and if they don\u2019t, well hopefully you get the message the first time.\u00a0 By the way, if you get a busy signal, it\u2019s ok to call back.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Like I said\nin the beginning, I love computers and technology in general, but technology is\nnot a substitute for personal interaction or the use of good old, fashioned\ncommon sense.&nbsp; When I started this blog,\nmy first article was about how my dad thought that TV would turn us into a\nnation of idiots, if only he was around to see what computers, cell phones and\ntablets have done to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m Just\nSayin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first encounter with computers was in 1971 when I decided to sign up for computer programming classes at the Electronic Computer Programming Institute (ECPI).&nbsp; I think that ECPI was one of the first computer training centers in the country &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crobrun.com\/?p=126\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6BTIK-22","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crobrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crobrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crobrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crobrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crobrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crobrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"https:\/\/crobrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crobrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crobrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crobrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}