If you aren’t using instant messaging for fast communications you are too old to be working in tech.
The meme is about this exact mentality. Fuck instant messaging.
And good luck searching teams, slack, whatever crap that is out there after 6 weeks or so. Or after parent company rebrands/migrates it to something else.
E-mail is the best modern day communication platform. It’s agnostic about your OS, client, or service provider. It’s not a fucking walled garden where both parties need to have exact same setup to communicate. I can have Thunderbird client working with Gmail and I can send and receive e-mails from people who use neither.
Yeah count me among the “too old” crowd because I like email. If I haven’t met you in person and personally given you my phone number, I don’t want you texting me. Ever. For any reason. At any time. If a company texts me, I think less of them and will search for an alternative the next time. 98% of the time I get a phone call I let it go to voicemail.
If you want me to see something, email it. With smartphones it takes a literally identical amount of effort to read an email as it does to read a text, with the added benefits that email was designed to send more than 12 characters at a time, can be searched, and can have attachments added to it.
It’s also extremely easy to keep your inbox from overflowing with crap. Just don’t sign up for the crap in the first place, and when you get an unsolicited email, unsubscribe and/or mark as spam. That does require the bare minimum of computer literacy, which appears to have died out. In a few years the technologically illiterate will say they don’t read their texts anymore since they’re overflowing with spam that they can’t be arsed to avoid signing up for.
The meme is about this exact mentality. Fuck instant messaging.
And good luck searching teams, slack, whatever crap that is out there after 6 weeks or so. Or after parent company rebrands/migrates it to something else.
E-mail is the best modern day communication platform. It’s agnostic about your OS, client, or service provider. It’s not a fucking walled garden where both parties need to have exact same setup to communicate. I can have Thunderbird client working with Gmail and I can send and receive e-mails from people who use neither.
You’re just clueless about using it.
Yeah count me among the “too old” crowd because I like email. If I haven’t met you in person and personally given you my phone number, I don’t want you texting me. Ever. For any reason. At any time. If a company texts me, I think less of them and will search for an alternative the next time. 98% of the time I get a phone call I let it go to voicemail.
If you want me to see something, email it. With smartphones it takes a literally identical amount of effort to read an email as it does to read a text, with the added benefits that email was designed to send more than 12 characters at a time, can be searched, and can have attachments added to it.
It’s also extremely easy to keep your inbox from overflowing with crap. Just don’t sign up for the crap in the first place, and when you get an unsolicited email, unsubscribe and/or mark as spam. That does require the bare minimum of computer literacy, which appears to have died out. In a few years the technologically illiterate will say they don’t read their texts anymore since they’re overflowing with spam that they can’t be arsed to avoid signing up for.