{"id":97,"date":"2009-06-29T00:12:14","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T05:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/capn\/?p=97"},"modified":"2009-06-29T00:12:14","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T05:12:14","slug":"communication-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/capn\/2009\/06\/29\/communication-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Communication Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Note: There&#8217;s basically no point to this post. But hey, it&#8217;s the Internet. That&#8217;s allowed here.]<\/p>\n<p>Media I can use to communicate with people I know in person:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Phone call. The highest-bandwidth and lowest-latency medium, unless you get voicemail. But somehow the least preferred.<\/li>\n<li>Text message. Annoyingly brief and usually vapid; useful for arranging meetings or telling someone you can&#8217;t go to their party when you&#8217;d rather not have to explain on the phone.<\/li>\n<li>Facebook message. Either wall post or private message. You can talk as much as you want, but in public you&#8217;d rather not and most private messages are just messages sent to groups to inform them that a party is coming up. (In my experience, anyway.)<\/li>\n<li>Instant messenger, like MSN or AIM. You will never have a group of friends that entirely uses one protocol or another; there&#8217;ll always be the one or two people using a different system. IMs are convenient and fast, you can keep logs for yourself, and it&#8217;s a lot easier to type on a keyboard than on a phone; still, IM clients aren&#8217;t as portable. (If you have one on your iPhone you have to type with the tiny keyboard.)<\/li>\n<li>Email. The original electronic communication method. It&#8217;s now basically the Snail Mail of the Internet, though emails only take two seconds to arrive most of the time. For some reason many people I know don&#8217;t use email for serious messaging at all, sticking to Facebook or text messaging.<\/li>\n<li>Smoke signal. This is arguably my favorite system, although it is difficult to find willing people to communicate with and the fire department tends to show up a lot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m the sort of person that likes to keep things archived. I have all of my email since my current email accounts opened; I have all instant messages logged and I keep offline copies of the (very few, as it happens) Facebook private messages I actually deem important. Text messaging presents a problem because there&#8217;s no good way to archive it, and of course nobody likes having their phone calls recorded.<\/p>\n<p>My obsessive-compulsive need to have a cohesive record of my past isn&#8217;t being fulfilled! Stupid technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Note: There&#8217;s basically no point to this post. But hey, it&#8217;s the Internet. That&#8217;s allowed here.] Media I can use to communicate with people I know in person: Phone call. The highest-bandwidth and lowest-latency medium, unless you get voicemail. But somehow the least preferred. Text message. Annoyingly brief and usually vapid; useful for arranging meetings&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/capn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/capn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/capn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/capn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/capn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/capn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/capn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/capn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/capn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}