Call Me Impersonal
April 22, 2009
I was a nerd in high school.
I was a nerd in college.
I am now a geek.
I love technology and how it can bring together our world. I am able to get on Facebook and talk to friends here in the U.S. and in other countries. I can get my email from both my personal and work accounts on my phone. I can access my bank account from anywhere. I can read books on my iPhone. I can Tweet on the run.
And it means I really don’t have to talk on the phone much anymore. LOVE that!
I’ve been grateful this week to have such technology available to me. I work part time (yeah..right.. make that full time at part time pay) at church and have a huge fundraiser to organize for Sunday. I also have a sick kid. Thanks to email, half my work for it is done and I could do it from the comfort of my laptop with my kid is next to me, moaning.
But it is also a drawback. So many people still believe it is such an impersonal way to do business. I can’t agree with that statement anymore. With as much as I am expected to do, I cannot telephone everyone. If I did, nothing would get done. Email, websites, Facebook, etc. is still the best way for me to keep in touch with people. It’s much simpler to do my shopping/price comparisons online and order; far simpler than trying to explain an order over the phone.
Anyway, I’m curious as to your reactions…. What do you think? Should we stick to personal or is impersonal the wave of the future?
I suppose it depends on the situation. Something that would involve comforting someone is better done though a phone call or face to face.
Work and casual conversation is definitely made faster and easier by all of this tech stuff. It put me back in touch with a sweet friend from college I didn’t realize I’d missed so much!
I think technology has become more personal, and it in fact helps me keep in touch with people that I’d never be able to without it.
Technology has to be my servant, not the other way around. But it’s a wonderful servant to have, and I hope it’s here to stay.
I agree–there’s a time and a place, benefits and drawbacks. But it is the way of the future…
I am a technology junkie, too, but I do feel that sometimes I just need to turn everything off and remind myself that all that stuff can wait in favor of the going on in real life, right now stuff.
Not much to do with your post, but something along similar lines that I think about from time to time.