Those people who are moaning about twitter are possibly uneasy with change or new methods. It is abit like my dad in the 70's, when he refused to have a home telephone. "what do we want one of those for?" he would say. We can go and visit someone when we need to talk to them or send them a card if it's their birthday. Why do we have emails now? I remember people saying it was rude to email a customer a price or some information. I was told you should send them a letter on headed paper; "it's the done thing". Times change and some people find it hard to change with them and so they bemoan the "new thing". Twitter is just a new way of communicating. it is just a modern day telephone. Oh and before I get a barrage of abuse for saying people don't like change or take on new technology, I am NOT on twitter. I've always bemoaned it!! This is becasue I am somewhat of a dinosaur. Whenever I've thought I should start twitter, I've convinced myself of all it's bad points. I need to embrace new technology better.
I've always subscribed to the theory that everybody is entitled to their own opinion, but mine is the only correct one.
Funnily enough, if you have a complaint with a company and want some action then writing a letter is by far a better approach than emailing. Our first telephone would have in the early 70's too. We had a party-lne shared with another house down the road.
Twitter is good if you have one of them phones that's basically a pocket-sized laptop and an obsession with being bang up to date about everything. If you don't obsess over it, the next time you check, you have reams and reams of rubbish to read through before you get to read something that might interest you, by which time a newspaper or a forum like this one will have picked up on it. A more pedestrian social media is more appropriate if you like to hear your news sitting down in front of a computer.
The strange thing is that now everyone over the age of 11 has a mobile phone, the home phone will be gone soon. All of these things are just ways of sending 0's and 1's to each other in ever more efficient ways, if it wasn't Twitter then it would be something else. I am sure that when someone works out how to translate thoughts into on-screen text, everyone will be doing that too. I don't have Twitter though, I'm afraid my opinions are just too boring for anyone to care about.
I have an iPhone but only because it came with the job. I don't have twitter though and envy your 7 year old nokia.
Without looking I have no idea what phone I have...except it's pink. It receives texts and makes phone calls and that's all it does...I have a camera for photos.
I have a Nokia Xpress Music mobile phone, it has it's good points, i.e. I can listen to Radio Solent commentary at Home games, has Internet facility when it works, (often you cannot log in when at St. Marys for some reason), it's major drawback is that you cannot read the screen in broad daylight!
I'd still have my old phone if the battery hadn't gone dead. Remember the Nokia 3310? Great phone that. Whilst I appreciate that many people will find twitter on a phone useful, personally I'm content with waiting until I get home before getting informed.
Twitter is a waste of time. Not that that's a bad thing. The (fake) Sam Allardyce account is very funny.
Nokia 3310 was a brilliant, tough phone. Mine fell out of my shirt pocket into a fishpond - a mate rang me a few seconds later and I plucked my dripping phone from 2 feet of water and just answered it as if nothing had happened. I stripped it down afterwards and put it somewhere warm to completely dry out and it was good for another year afterwards. My current Nokia has all the bells and whistles, but I still mainly use it for text messages and making calls. I wouldn't want to put it through the kind of treatment that my 3310 went through though because I don't think it would last anything like as well.
Modern phones can sometimes be inefficient at the simple stuff if you don't need the gizmos. My present phone although fairly basic will not do the numbers 0 and 1 without changing to the numbers mode, though the other numbers are on the letter keys. I was always glad when Saints won 3.2...made it so much easier to text. Eventually stopped it from doing predictive text...so distracting, like talking to someone who constantly finishes your sentences.
I've never used predictive text. The only time I tried everything came out as "bacon". I had a rubber-coated 3310 which literally bounced if you dropped it on concrete. It was the mobile phone equivalent of the Toyota Hiace pickup. I'd still be using it now if I hadn't stupidly put it in my pocket with my keys and smashed the screen.
The best thing about my phone is that when I replaced the battery I got the one from a later model with a colour screen. It can now easily last three weeks between charges.
