NO TEXT MESSAGES
For crying out loud please do not send me any text and don't send me any questions via facebook. Finally, don't get your feeling hurt if I ignore you.
For those of you who use this annoying tool of communication, consider this:
Do people who still have a land lines receive your text?
Are people who have dumb phones with numbers as keys able to easily respond?
Ever considered those who may turn off their phone for months at a time because they are working out of town or out of country?
DO NOT SEND ME TEXT. Please pass this along.
From a 2013 blog post, the only thing that has changed is Skip Waters is not texting or putting up facebook messages anymore.
Social media sucks. I don't do it. No facebook, twitter, linked in, whatever. Don't do it. Yeah, we've got a facebook page, but Anna updates it from my posts here. I have never looked at it and I probably never will. I have no idea who likes me....and less of an idea of who dislikes me.
I refuse to get one of those dumb phones...I'm not going to submit to whatever spell those phones put on people.....causing them to ignore the world around them or the people with whom they are having lunch.
A bunch of zombies walking around staring into that voo-doo device, poking and swatting at it with their pointer finger, it's just plain stupid. Put the damn thing in your pocket and look around before you walk off the end of the dock. And on the boat? REally? Might as well bring a frigging television to watch fishing shows. Had a guy bring a newspaper tarpon fishing one time, with tarpon rolling all around the boat, he was reading a frigging paper. I carried him back to the dock.
I don't give a damn how much more productive I would be if I were able to immediately answer someone's question or give them a fishing report. They can send me an e mail or look at this blog. Anyone who doesn't have the patience to wait a day for me to call 'em back isn't someone that I would probably want to spend a day on the water with anyway. Who wants a fishing guide that is waiting around to answer the phone instead of being out on the water fishing? And for that matter, who wants a fishing guide who is on the water but on the phone all day?
Heck, I don't even read texts. It annoys the heck out of me when the phone makes that little beep saying that I've got one. Don't send me one, I ain't gonna read it or I'll reply several days later with my calloused, swollen, cut fingers trying to bang out " I domt do txt, cal me"
The only benefit to those smart phones is the live radar, that has been very helpful avoiding thunderstorms. I mention something about the clouds and approaching storms and I've got a regular Skip Waters on the boat with his little gadget......"hey, lemme see that......naw, we're alright" I hear that I can get the same thing with one of those fancy global positioning devices that tells you where you're at........I'll have to look into that.
Social Media, the only reason that I can see any use to it, other than telling people what you had for dinner and when you are going to the bathroom......
For those of you who use this annoying tool of communication, consider this:
Do people who still have a land lines receive your text?
Are people who have dumb phones with numbers as keys able to easily respond?
Ever considered those who may turn off their phone for months at a time because they are working out of town or out of country?
DO NOT SEND ME TEXT. Please pass this along.
From a 2013 blog post, the only thing that has changed is Skip Waters is not texting or putting up facebook messages anymore.
Social Media, Dumb phones, Text
I refuse to get one of those dumb phones...I'm not going to submit to whatever spell those phones put on people.....causing them to ignore the world around them or the people with whom they are having lunch.
A bunch of zombies walking around staring into that voo-doo device, poking and swatting at it with their pointer finger, it's just plain stupid. Put the damn thing in your pocket and look around before you walk off the end of the dock. And on the boat? REally? Might as well bring a frigging television to watch fishing shows. Had a guy bring a newspaper tarpon fishing one time, with tarpon rolling all around the boat, he was reading a frigging paper. I carried him back to the dock.
I don't give a damn how much more productive I would be if I were able to immediately answer someone's question or give them a fishing report. They can send me an e mail or look at this blog. Anyone who doesn't have the patience to wait a day for me to call 'em back isn't someone that I would probably want to spend a day on the water with anyway. Who wants a fishing guide that is waiting around to answer the phone instead of being out on the water fishing? And for that matter, who wants a fishing guide who is on the water but on the phone all day?
Heck, I don't even read texts. It annoys the heck out of me when the phone makes that little beep saying that I've got one. Don't send me one, I ain't gonna read it or I'll reply several days later with my calloused, swollen, cut fingers trying to bang out " I domt do txt, cal me"
The only benefit to those smart phones is the live radar, that has been very helpful avoiding thunderstorms. I mention something about the clouds and approaching storms and I've got a regular Skip Waters on the boat with his little gadget......"hey, lemme see that......naw, we're alright" I hear that I can get the same thing with one of those fancy global positioning devices that tells you where you're at........I'll have to look into that.
Social Media, the only reason that I can see any use to it, other than telling people what you had for dinner and when you are going to the bathroom......
posted by Capt. George Beckwith at
1:29 PM
