THREW Mikes EyEz

Original Writings, Images, Video and Artworks of Mike Hartley

Tag Archives: dailyprompt-1817


by Leave a comment

Wired Communications

This might be a question you’re careful in answering from the daily writing prompt. In what ways do you communicate online?

I use email quite a bit. Very little Zoom. Little to no chat anymore. Through this blog mainly. An occasional comment on Facebook. With other bloggers with comments on their topics and observations.

I hope to communicate with my images through my photo site. A work in progress.

Obviously support for everything from your doctors to your dishwashers has moved online. And with AI the chance of getting an actual human being to help you is getting closer to 0% each day. So, everyone is communicating with businesses, governments, hospitals and pharmacies, ordering food and everything else under the sun online now.

I’m thinking of reducing my fingerprint online. I have an Instagram account but I’m dropping that because I never use it. LinkedIn is about to go this month or next because I’m retired.

I’d love to drop Facebook, but I keep up with people I worked with for a long time, my car clubs and some old school and neighborhood kids I grew up with. But I’ve cut back on it a good bit. I comment on almost nothing because there are too many hateful uneducated people willing to drag down most meaningful conversation. I will send individual messages.

Good communication is being taken away from society. I refuse to go to those self-checkout isles because I like talking to people taking my money and wishing them a good day. Hopefully, exchanging smiles and maybe some other pleasantries.

I walked out of McDonalds a while back when I realized there was nobody to take my order other than a kiosk. I don’t order online, I still call it in, and I pick it up.

I guess I should count startling my wife as she comes home at the front door with my voice coming through the ring camera is online communication. I like that one.

Make time to Communicate with Nature.

Contemplating the morning commute. Photo by Mike Hartley


by Leave a comment

Communication highway

In what ways do you communicate online? Ask another prying questions from the daily prompt.

Things changed recently in that regard. The company apps like Slack, Zoom, Teams and many other system monitoring and admin tools along with company email are no longer. I used to spend a lot of time communicating on Slack because the hours I worked everyone else was in bed. And if they had to be woke they weren’t in the building.

Communication bundles. Photo by Mike Hartley

Blogging here is probably my most common one to the public. I use a lot of email to family and friends. I get on Facebook every few days but I don’t post much of anything there. I used LinkedIn in the past.

Is texting considered online communication? It’s done from smartphones right? Who knows. Again I do some but not an unusual amount. Probably less than average.

Oh yeah, a little YouTube and that might increase as I learn to take more video.

I have a photo site on Zenfolio and as my site grows so does the communication.

Medical institutions and hospitals have all switched to some form of online communications. Some do it well, some don’t. Unfortunately I have several medical apps.

Commentary – I have no problem with technology except that we all are prone to go overboard and misuse it. Communication face to face or at least with voice is important. Real friends are not measured in Facebook counts or likes. My advice to the youth which is probably far to late. Get your damn face out of the smartphone and talk to someone. Walk with someone. Hold hands with someone. Laugh with someone. Cry with someone. Live with a real human being and not a screen.