innovation sucks.......

i am getting more and more annoyed by the new ways of communication: mobile phone and e-mail. maybe we should call them already old ways of communication?? well anyway, in these days i start to develop some kind of anti mobile phone and e-mail attitude. it is stressing me that people expect that i immediately answer the phone or an e-mail, as soon as they have send it/made the call.......thailand is very extreme with this, especially when it comes to their phones. you can talk to a person, but as soon as their phone rings they cannot concentrate anymore, they have to know who is calling them. sometimes they answer the call, while i am still talking to them. also in meetings, they do not turn of their phones, or at least put it on silent mode. very annoying, because i get interrupted so many times.....i do not get bothered by people calling me everywhere and whenever they want, but i get sick of people complaining that i did not pick up their phone call…..sometimes i just don’t want to answer my phone. there are phone calls which are important, but be honest, how many of the phone call you receive every day are really important and cannot wait?

It is also bothering me that the quality of our communication seems to decrease while the technology is increasing. Can a “conversation” via text message be more impersonal? How much input can you put into 160 letters? I don’t know….. I guess I am getting old ;-)

it is also funny that i complain in my blog, which is even more impersonal than an e-mail....lol