I was going to say, exclamation marks are another bug bear!

Whisky wrote:

Is somebody else trying to keep away from all the new technology stuff?

High five Whisky!
And I believe we're the same age. I do have a smartphone, though I always forget to turn it on. If people want to contact me they can use 1: my home phone if it's urgent or 2: email if it isn't. It's not as if people remember, btw, they'll go 'I tried to reach you on your cell phone' and I'm like 'Did you try my landline?' and they go 'No.'. Well, clearly they didn't really try to reach me then. It's not rocket science or anything. 

I have a facebook account but after I forgot my password I couldn't be bothered to update at all. My problem is that you lose track of what you put online and you don't really know who else might be watching. 

I always say: I could live without my TV, but not my lap top!

tonnaree wrote:

One note in defense of technology.  Without it most of us would've never met.  

I'm not so sure about that ;)
I was a fan of many things before the internet took over my life. Fan life did work, if slightly different than now. But it could be international even back then. It's not about the technology, it's about the passion and desperate need to find like-minded people! I mean, I really like checking tumblr, twitter, forums... but that doesn't mean that going to Harry Potter parties (announced by flyers) in your local bookshop dressed up as Hermione or Ginny was less fun :D
Just saying... maybe we all would have met anyway. On a Sherlock set. A convention. Just on the street wearing our t-shirts. The internet is just making things a lot easier Just imagine if every Reichenbach theory would have been exchanged by letter!! The mail would have collapsed!

Whisky wrote:

Oh, it's good to read some of you don't do TV either. I'm living without TV for ten years now... I don't miss it. Actually TV was never popular in my life. When I'm at friend's places and watch TV there, I always get bored. I just miss documentaries sometimes. DVDs are so much more fun.

Just curious--- w/out TV, how did you find Sherlock?

I love TV, but I pick and choose very carefully what I want to watch. And I use my DVR to record *everything* I want to see, so I can watch it later (even 15 minutes after the start of something) and FF over all those horrible advertisements/commercials/political ads. Mainstream American network TV is now about 1/3 advertisements, and I hate all of them, so I record and FF and am a happy camper. But yeah, I don't watch at least 95% of what's on-- it all skews too young and/or too male for me.
 

I do have a TV, but don't watch it much.  It's an old-style cathode ray one.  I don't know anybody else who still has one of those as their main TV, but as it has sound and a picture, I don't see any point in replacing it.   Aesthetically, I prefer the square screen.  In fact I arrange things on my PC desktop to make it more square.  

I don't disapprove of watching TV, but I've had periods of my life when I haven't had TV at all, so don't really feel the urge.   I do manage to fill what would have been TV-watching time with equally pointless things like playing games, reading books, or (mostly) being on the internet.   The truth is, my concentration isn't great.  I think the internet has spoiled me, and if I watch something on TV it has to be really good to grab me and stop me wandering off to make a cup of tea.  Or mindless enough that it doesn't matter.
 

I love it all!   I love TV, but like AG, I am picky about my shows and I record most everything so I can watch it on my own schedule.

I love my Kindle, I love my smartphone and I love my laptop.  I love DVD's and MP3's I love the ineternet and the way it has made communicating with my distant friends and relatives as easy as if they were nextdoor.  I love that I have met people I never would've met if the internet didn't exsist!  I never would've met my husband if it weren't for the internet so I can absolutely say that tecnology changed my life.

So plug me up baby!  I will ride the information super highway as far as it will take me!  

As to the original question whether oldults text each other: In my case I very rarely text (if I can talk...). I almost exclusively use whatsapp or fb messenger.