To think in 20 years we won't do it any more?

Bravissimo Nanadana

When I have my family to dinner …not often , I tell them “ no mobiles at table, if you can’t leave it alone …you dont eat! “
Also my daughter twlks her two kids 15 and 11 leave all devices downstairs when they go to bed….they’ve been doing g it since they first had devices at age ten …they’re now used to it, and leave them on charge , downstairs , without being asked! I’m impressed. And to add they don’t even have a tv… as it’s total rubbish . A lot of talking to each other goes on in her house . You just have to lay the ground rules at an early age!

It used to be considered extremely rude to use your phone when out in restaurants or at a meal with friends. That idea seems to have gone out the window,now. Anything goes. I still think it is rude.

Shopping with my granddaughter at the weekend, we were looking for a shop she wanted to go into. But despite wandering around for ages failed to find it.
I said I’d go and ask someone, she seemed horrified by this suggestion, and insist we google it, and follow online instructions.
It was a good idea, but what was strange was her horror of us interacting with a stranger, when it seemed the obvious answer to me.

Twenty years from now the world will belong to those who are fluent and good communicators. It always has and always will.

Perhaps more parents should relise that, and start talking themselves and make their children communicate face to face using their mouths as well.

Ive always enjoyed talking on the phone. I can ring someone, get another person (because the object of my call is out) and still be talking 20 minutes later!

My grandmother used to say I was "vaccinated with a gramophone needle" although most people nowadays would not know what that meant.

During the first lockdown I wanted to contribute something to the community so I volunteered to speak to some "phone friends" regularly each week. Some conversations were brief - just to check in case they needed anything. Others I got to know quite well and we discussed a range of subjects.

I find texting a very akward and restricting way to communicate. Typing on that weeny little screen when I have a whole tribe of computers with perfectly good keyboards.

biglouis I find texting a very akward and restricting way to communicate. Typing on that weeny little screen when I have a whole tribe of computers with perfectly good keyboards.

I don't have a mobile, but I see my daughters text, indeed it looks so difficult and restricting. I love my computer, can do any task.

I am another who cannot get on with a tiny screen. I have numb fingertips on my right hand and I have dyspraxia, which means, as anyone who reads my posts on GN knows that my fingers do not do what my brain tells them to do and 123, even if I say it as I type will be entered as 312.

Texting does have its uses. The person who cleans for me has such a strong Scottish accent that I find them difficult to understand on the phone so we tend to just text. Still I much prefer email.

I agree rtexting is very useful. I just wish I found it easier to do.