Daddy's Home by Tony Rubino and Gary Markstein for December 18, 2014

I’ve been known to text, AND e-mail someone during a phone conversation with that same person.

However at least 10 years ago, the twentyish daughter of a friend told me rather disdainfully that “e-mail is for old people.”

@Tony Sorry, can’t comment right now. I’m on the phone.

Oh yeah… I forgot…and I comment on the comics while I e-mail, text, and talk.

What a wonderful age we live in.Phone, email, IM, texting, live chat, skype, facebook, twitter, facetime, …So many ways to miscommunicate and cause offense.

I prefer talking over writing; less chance of misunderstandings.

I prefer email for most communications – facilitates precision in language, encourages thoughtful response.

The telephone is a rude device, demanding the other party cease all other activities immediately to attend to my wishes; just try to get me on the phone if you are calling from a blocked or 800/877 number. I reserve telephone only for planned or absolutely-urgent conversations.

Text is useful and falls between those two.

Up front close and personal is more proper and there will be no mistakes on your answer.

It depends. Sometimes I call, sometimes I e-mail, sometimes speak face to face, and there are a few people I carry ongoing conversations with through facebook or messenger.

Hippies in the 90s??

I don’t want to talk to anybody, especially not computer-generated voices calling me. I’ll take e-mail.

prefer phone call, way too much work to type a whole conversation.

PSI for me. Mind over matter. If i don’t mind it does not matter. I thimk. :)

So, we are becoming more withdrawn as a culture because it bothers us to talk on the phone or face-to-face with someone? Just how impersonal do we have to get before we lose our sense of humanity?

I’m old school and prefer the phone to email. I do not text at all.

I prefer a phone call, unless it’s directions or something that needs to be “unmistakable” – a recipe, or directions to a specific location.

I’ve never sent a text message in my life, and refuse to answer 800 calls or calls for “Buffalo, NY”. I don’t speak to entire cities. But as far as the phone being intrusive or demanding – that’s why God invented answering machines.

Depends on the situation or who I’m dealing with.