Telephone Lines

And isn't it sad that with all this ease of communication, we are still not close to understanding ourselves or one another? That takes reflection, and you are correct in your saying we forget how to relax.

Moving too fast not nearly as much of an issue as internet addiction - being able to make myself stop and get off of here and do something else!

P1ke, that is the world today, rush rush rush, work work work, no one takes time out any more, it seems Life is just about that now I remember a time when no shops where open on a Sunday, bank holidays, BOXING DAY When People used to get their breaks at work When People used to relax and lay back on a Sunday once they have done a few bits and the Dinner in the Oven and so much more but now, well it is not that any more at all

hi pikey my roomie this morning said "You just really love that thing, meaning my computer, to stay on so long.I would be bored." this from a person who ten minutes later will say no I never said that,. She is in the midst of Alzheimer so its hard to know what to believe and not believe.I really do not get bored on the net but now i am pretty addicted to it.Yet I feel over the years workng hard now its my turn to enjoy what I do enjoy.Mylot never bores me as I tried to explain to Kathy ,it is always different.

for some, internet is their relaxation, but not to everybody. it's not a relaxation for me too. life is moving really so fast now, p1key.

I think we are moving too fast. Yes, relaxing on the computer is what I do a lot, but sometimes I just need to take a break from the office and the computer and get out into nature. Today is one of those days. It is 1pm, I have all my work done for the day, so I am going out or a bike ride in the state forest.

Though I'm not that old...but I remember the time when we had to BOOK a trunk call to call a different country. When I was much younger and I lived in Kuwait, we couldn't pick up the phone and make a call to India ....for one...there were no long distance calls and two....most homes in India didn't have a phone. We had to write looong letters and would receive looong letters from friends and family. We made penpals with other children in different parts of the world. Now, we can chat with multiple strangers over the virtual web. Yes, I do feel sometimes that things are going too fast and we don't stop to think...let alone relax.

I am someone who has visual and mobility issues, so advanced technology is wonderful for me, a wonderful way for me to do what I want to do, at the same rate as everyone else does it. As long as people still employ their brains, then we are doing alright. If technology allows us to become mindless, then it's moving too fast.

You have a point, of f1shy one! I find that I do get stressed by a full inbox and every so often, I'll just mass delete the whole thing! I sometimes just want to veg and play games and not worry if one of my friends is going to get upset because I didn't respond to their discussion!

I think we're moving way to fast. We give ourselves no time to think, relax or play anymore. Take kids, for instance...we take them to their baseball game and let them play but then we hurry them away for another activity. Same with adults--go out to a concert or somewhere else but hurry home afterward because you got a call from the office of you want to see a show on TV. We're multitasking all the time! I remember how it was to write a letter. I'd sit down with pretty stationery and a nice pen and think about what I wanted to say. What I'd done during the week, all the special things that happened, how to make the person smile or laugh. It took at least a good 15 minutes or half hour to write a decent letter, thinking about what had gone on in your life and reviewing everything. Many times it inspired you to think of something you could have done better. And you thought about that other person that you were writing to with thoughts of love and affection. Email is great but I still like sending letters. And I love receiving cards and letters--so nice to get something besides bills and junk in the mailbox outside my door!

I'm not the person to ask about this! I could rant and rave for ages on this subject No, the majority of us don't balance our lives properly. That's the short answer! The trouble is that we don't use the time we've saved from the use of technology to do anything else, we just fill it with more of the same.

I still enjoy writing letters once in a while and I prefer to pick up the phone and call someone over sending an email or trying to chat on-line, but, I am a very busy person and there are a lot of times when I communicate with my family through texting rather than talking. Yes, I feel that many of us lead an unbalanced life, and I am one of those people. I am constantly bust doing this or that and often times forget that I need time to stop and smell the flowers as well. It has gotten to the point that even when I am sitting idle trying to enjoy a movie, I find myself thinking that there are other things I should and could be doing at the same time. I think that if we were to slow down, many of us would feel as if are being unproductive with our time because so many other things have begun taking precedence in our lives.

Ya I agree with you but no fully because although press a button and our thought reach in the inbox of our friends and family members still now in some small town no net facility are there but post and mobile facility are there so we cant send e-mail. So there letter or mob is must.

I am already 50 and as I see the past compared to now,it is really so amazing that the intelligence of the people out of all their curiosities keep on improving technologies but we should not forget that they still owe it to the awkward situation of the past because it is from there that their objectives came from.

Sometimes I think we are moving to fast and not taking time out to really relax, like go out for a walk and get away from the computer. I am sure our lives are unbalanced as some days I have t be on the computer for hours and other days I really can't stand to look at it. I feel sorry for the poor old post office, they must be losing heaps of money without people buying stamps, but then again they have people posting e-bay goodies, so they are probably making money through that.Cheers Sue

I thought the same, i used to believe being online can do relaxation for me, but with all the stress and the stress going online always brought me, i realized i was wrong. At times we do need a break from all these technologies and be part of nature. Nature, being with these simple things bring different relaxation.

If we turned off all of our electronics, would we be happier? Maybe, but then there'd be a baby boom in about 9 months...

Two things Technology and constant change. I'm glad these things were invented and developed but sometimes it can also be a cause of our problems and stress.

Many technology now are used to communicate with people around the world like many social application like msnn skype and others , video voice or text can be used to communicate for each other hence using land line telephone is almost obsolete , how many places the internet still runs on dail up or broadband line using copper base telephone line .

What would we do without the phone? We thought, but now the deal is with computers and cellphones, I think many would feel missing an arm! lol