Can You Hear Me Now?

In my daily surf of the WWW over lunch today, I came across some Tweets and the fact that the Pope now has a Twitter account.  It got me thinking to how far the ‘communication’ system has come from when I was a wee little lad. I give you: The Evolution of Communication After the House Phone (from what I can remember)

HUH? You have phone in your car?

What’s your pager number?

I.M. me; What’s your screen name?

What’s your email address?

What’s your cell phone number?

You should join MySpace.

Text me.

Friend me on Facebook.

Follow me on Twitter.

Car phone: My grandpa was in real estate and had one. I think I was with when he used it once.

Pager: Never had one—I wasn’t and am still not that big of a phone talker. If someone wanted to get a hold of me, they had to call me at home.

Screen name: lele2000

Email then: lele2000@aol.com Now: leiann12@hotmail.com

Cell phone number: not going to tell you! – didn’t get a cell phone until I was 20 years old—WAY behind the times.  Who ever knew they would get smaller than the one Zack Morris had or the one Julia Roberts had in My Best Friends Wedding?  I bet Zack never imagined he'd be texting Kelly on a smaller version of that phone someday...

Join MySpace? No way.

Texting: Guilty.

Friend you on Facebook? I think I was one of the last people in America to get a FB account, now I hardly ever use it. I much prefer reading blogs and I don’t like strangers (who say they are my ‘friend’) being able to nose around in my business nor do I find it necessary for people to tell their every waking move to the world; which brings me to my main topic:

Twitter?? I don’t get it—what do these things mean??: #,@, RT… When I look at those symbols, this is what goes through my head: “Please enter the last four digits of your social security number, followed by the pound sign”, “At” and “Dodge Dakota R/T”