University Declares a Week Without Social Media

[DubaiSis]

I think it would be a very interesting experiment. There is such a thing as too much access and maybe this will trigger the students (and staff!) to turn off their phones every once in a while. I can't travel without my laptop any more, and that's just sad. But I still don't have the interweb on my phone. I like to justify that as, you know, not THAT much dependence on the web. Don't lecture me. I KNOW!

Do sororities have phone duty any more?

[BraveMaroon]

I started college in 1993, and our campus didn't automatically set you up with e mail. You had to go to the Computer Science building and apply for an account - which wasn't even personalized. It was a string of letters, the @ symbol, and a domain name having nothing resembling anything - it a "MUSIC" account - Multi University Shared Internet Computing (or something close to that).

I wrote letters. Actual handwritten letters.

And then I attached them to a carrier pigeon, went and beat my laundry against a rock and took a steam operated trolley to Chapter Meeting.

[DrPhil]

I would tell the person that I will ignore their texts if I can't understand them.

I don't have anyone who texts me in a manner that I can't understand. I also don't have anyone who texts me that often. They know that I'm not a huge fan of texting beyond necessity. My parents don't really know what a text message is and how to do it. I think I received a test text a long time ago from both of them. It made me laugh like crazy. It was so cute. There's no need to text when you're in your 70s. It's wrong on so many levels. LOL.