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[tikay]

I was reminded this morning of the range of ways we are instantly contactable these days.

There's really no escape if we have a PC, Laptop or smartphone.

I had a quick tot up, & these routes all came to mind.

Forum posts on various forums we belong to.

PM's on blonde

PM's Next Door

Tweets to our Twitter feed.

Twitter DM's.

e-Mails to our private account, in my case Yahoo.

e-Mails to Microsoft Outlook

Telephone calls

Text Messages

Lync Instant Messaging

Skype

I-Pad Instant Messaging

Letters through the post.



That's a dozen or more without even thinking too hard about it. Most folks seem to have Facebook, too, that'd be two more routes, via FB posts & FB messages.

And they come via Desktop, Laptop, I-pad or smartphone. We can't hide now.

Sign up for free wifi at a service station or airport, subscribe to a newsletter or open an account for something, they want an e-Mail addy, then comes the spam.

Bet I get 20 spam messages every damn day, they are hard to avoid.

In the evening, I try to switch most stuff off, but then the phone rings, or a text comes through.

There is no escape, is there?

[tikay]

When we were kids, there were exactly two routes - letters & postcards.

We'd look & listen out for the postie every day. We knew he was coming as all the dogs barked.

Will he stop at our house? Will there be something for me?

Mostly no, but sometimes, yes yes yes.

Getting a postcard from Aunty Maud at the seaside, or from a young lady we maybe had the hots for, even better. Whatever happened to postcards?

Letters were wonderful. I used to send off for stuff just so I could get a letter back. Mostly I had to send a SAE, so I'd get my own envelope back.

My all time favourite was a chap who claimed he had a foolproof method to win the football pools. Whatever happened to football pools? Wow, how exciting was Sports Report at 5pm. All football matches of course started at 3pm on a Saturday. 

The fella with the foolproof method ("The Infra Draw Method") advertised on Radio Luxembourg & the pirate radio stations, his name was Horace Batchelor, from K-E-Y-N-S-H-A-M near Bristol.


Think I loved Horace because he sent me letters. He's passed on now, poor soul.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Batchelor

[TightEnd]

I am on call 24 hours a day unless i switch off everything. Quite depressing really

[tikay]

Sometimes we just feel like saying GO AWAY.

We go on holiday & still get harassed.

GO AWAY

[Tal]

My favourite part of that is the journo shouting "WE'RE ASKING YOU QUESTIONS!"

The intention being to say we are being reasonable and you are not.

All the most reasonable questions are shouted IMO. Perhaps he thought Sir Philip just hadn't heard the question.

[Kev B]

My most used function on my smartphone is auto reject. I constantly get disturbed by people trying to sell me stuff relating to my business. It happens just once then I add the number to auto reject and never hear from them again.

[Kev B]

When we were kids, there were exactly two routes - letters & postcards.

We'd look & listen out for the postie every day. We knew he was coming as all the dogs barked.

Will he stop at our house? Will there be something for me?

Mostly no, but sometimes, yes yes yes.

Getting a postcard from Aunty Maud at the seaside, or from a young lady we maybe had the hots for, even better. Whatever happened to postcards?

Letters were wonderful. I used to send off for stuff just so I could get a letter back. Mostly I had to send a SAE, so I'd get my own envelope back.

My all time favourite was a chap who claimed he had a foolproof method to win the football pools. Whatever happened to football pools? Wow, how exciting was Sports Report at 5pm. All football matches of course started at 3pm on a Saturday. 

The fella with the foolproof method ("The Infra Draw Method") advertised on Radio Luxembourg & the pirate radio stations, his name was Horace Batchelor, from K-E-Y-N-S-H-A-M near Bristol.


Think I loved Horace because he sent me letters. He's passed on now, poor soul.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Batchelor

Don't forget Tony we could always walk and knock on a friends door. After my Sunday lunch I would just wait to hear the sound of football boots clinking up the entry, calling at all our mates on the way to the park for 14 a side with jumpers for goal posts.

[RED-DOG]

I was reminded this morning of the range of ways we are instantly contactable these days.

There's really no escape if we have a PC, Laptop or smartphone.

I had a quick tot up, & these routes all came to mind.

Forum posts on various forums we belong to.

PM's on blonde

PM's Next Door

Tweets to our Twitter feed.

Twitter DM's.

e-Mails to our private account, in my case Yahoo.

e-Mails to Microsoft Outlook

Telephone calls

Text Messages

Lync Instant Messaging

Skype

I-Pad Instant Messaging

Letters through the post.



That's a dozen or more without even thinking too hard about it. Most folks seem to have Facebook, too, that'd be two more routes, via FB posts & FB messages.

And they come via Desktop, Laptop, I-pad or smartphone. We can't hide now.

Sign up for free wifi at a service station or airport, subscribe to a newsletter or open an account for something, they want an e-Mail addy, then comes the spam.

Bet I get 20 spam messages every damn day, they are hard to avoid.

In the evening, I try to switch most stuff off, but then the phone rings, or a text comes through.

There is no escape, is there?

Just download whatsapp and you can do away with all the others.

[booder]

When we were kids, there were exactly two routes - letters & postcards.

We'd look & listen out for the postie every day. We knew he was coming as all the dogs barked.

Will he stop at our house? Will there be something for me?

Mostly no, but sometimes, yes yes yes.

Getting a postcard from Aunty Maud at the seaside, or from a young lady we maybe had the hots for, even better. Whatever happened to postcards?

Letters were wonderful. I used to send off for stuff just so I could get a letter back. Mostly I had to send a SAE, so I'd get my own envelope back.

My all time favourite was a chap who claimed he had a foolproof method to win the football pools. Whatever happened to football pools? Wow, how exciting was Sports Report at 5pm. All football matches of course started at 3pm on a Saturday. 

The fella with the foolproof method ("The Infra Draw Method") advertised on Radio Luxembourg & the pirate radio stations, his name was Horace Batchelor, from K-E-Y-N-S-H-A-M near Bristol.


Think I loved Horace because he sent me letters. He's passed on now, poor soul.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Batchelor

AM deliveries and PM deliveries in those days , double the delight.

[Longines]

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[DaveShoelace]

I have a cracking app on my laptop called freedom.to which blocks out many of these distracting websites like social media at preset intervals, really handy.

A few years back I had a problem at work where it was expected that I would respond to anything at any time. It really started to piss me off until I realised it was because I was simply responding to everything so quickly. I eventually started politely pushing back and adding a few 'I'll respond laters' and 'I won't be available at these times' and for the most part everyone was really respectful of that.

I have way more energy when I force myself off of news/social media/emails for set periods.