Telephones

[kiralamouse]

Someone please explain to me why it was necessary for phones to be invented. Someone then explain to me why, in an age of email and IM, it remains necessary to use phones for purposes other than lengthy chats with friends/family or for 911-emergency-level calls.

EVIL!!!!!!!!!!!

Comments

[tristmasjedi.livejournal.com]

The only thing that occurs to me is that it's pretty easy to ignore an e-mail. Once you have the opposite party on the phone it can be fairly difficult for them to ignore you. ;-)

[kiralamouse]

You call that a drawback? Other than an emergency, I can't think of an occasion offhand where I wouldn't rather be ignored. Or go in person, which is still harder to ignore...

[mainframe76.livejournal.com]

not necessarily.
one may always simply hang up the phone.
;-)

- merc

[tristmasjedi.livejournal.com]

But who would do that to Kirala?

[kiralamouse]

A telemarketer getting revenge?

[dypsidollierats.livejournal.com]

i think i've hung up on you before. but i suppose that doesn't really count. <3ya anyway