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Tell me about it. I've been trying to get Carling to make me a momentary version of their 641 PCB mount footswitch for over 10 years. Ghosted.
I recently read about a teacher in high school. He taught a science lab and noticed a lot of students who had reduced auditory and motor skills.
We are doomed.
life is too short to spend hours (or even minutes) replying to conversations i have no interest being a part of. Is it rude? probably. Do i care? not a bit. Granted this applies to communications with strangers, not friends or family. I am married with two young kids, house, career, friends, hobbies… I am not spending my lunch break or quiet time replying to emails or social media posts or even business inquiries i am not interested in. Having a computer in my pocket [two, actually] masquerading as a phone has nothing to do with it. If I were you I wouldn't take it personally.
Hey Fran its really frustrating what u share, personally i can have a little conversation with a stranger here and there but I'm really not in the regular mode of engaging conversation with strangers most of the time i do really love to have conversations with friends or co workers its kinda nice when u hit a topic someone is passionate about or something u dont know much and u end up learning from that conversation, and for the never getting a reply do u mean u always call a number and want to talk with someone? Maybe now days people find easier to communicate via text messaging? also if u conclude that maybe the problem its u why not reach people or companies through another person maybe have a assistant or someone that gets call backs after all your great on what u do and all but no one can do everything. Also anyone of us who that watches ur content would love to have a chat with u and thats something!
If I was a band I’d be happy to come to America and play at your event. And then listen and talk to you until daybreak
Be your own island.
Excellent video!
I think your mentioning texting on a phone rather than talking has some very deep aspects. Put simply, when people talk its immediate, you have to respond on the fly, its spontaneous. Even talking on the phone misses so much feedback about how our words are being taken, comprehended, because we are not reading the face, the person, we are in conversation with. Texting is the antithesis of conversation because we are given time to compose our responce. This is obvious but has some deep flaws if that's the only way we communicate. There are kids now that can't keep eye contact because their normal way to communicate is via text. There are also kids who at the crucial stage of learning to talk now have speech impediments because during the pandemic, the mask wearing robbed them of seeing mouth movements because of mask wearing.
Free flowing conversation has an element of vulnerability about it. Texting nearly removes that, but at the same time, weakens being able to convey what we want to communicate because the physical nuances of looking at someone's face are not there, so misunderstandings are common, hence the need for emoticons. When we really talk, from the heart, we bare all and in this age of shallowness brought about mainly by social media, thats frightening. Perhaps we live in a soulless society because we can't bare to look someone in the eyes and speak truth anymore. Society has become like a dysfunctional family.
Excellent topic and analysis! Thank you. Ghosting is especially painful when it happens from family members. Heck, I will give a minimum courtesy of a reply even to, say, a political opinion that I disagree with. Like "Thanks….interesting."
I've ghosted some women in my past. I don't feel good about it.
Fran, I think you missed the memo. A few years back the world switched to telepathy and strong intentions as the preferred modes of communication. If you check your dream mailbox tonight, you will likely find a stack of notes and letters and voicemail sent to you over the months, even years.
I use Cursive as secret code now.
Oh Fran. I thought this would be about ghosting on old TV sets. How damn sad it's come to this! 😯
It gets worse, Im finding that some people dont even want to be acknowledged that youve noticed them. Its like they dont even want to accept that another human being is noticing that they exist.
I'm a millennial, so I still remember a time people could just spontaneously talk to people in public. I even remember just seeing a bunch of people playing frisbee in the park and I asked to join them. It was a lot of fun.
But yeah, I think a lot of the younger crowd who grew up on smart phones and are always connected think that they need to have this perfectly curated life, where you make friends through your engagements online, use Tinder for dates, and be in complete control of your destiny. So they might think that if they're out and about doing something, anyone around has no right to inflict some sort of spontaneous interruption because they're already dealing with the people in their lives that they've curated on their phones. They just simply never lived in a time where they were disconnected from their usual friends and had to make new ones in person.
It really is kind of sad. Technology is evolving faster than people to reasonably use it.