[clug] [OT] Broadband clangers

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 17 August 2010 13:47, Stephen Walsh <steve at nerdvana.org.au> wrote:
>  On 08/17/2010 01:10 PM, Alex Satrapa wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>> It's not that the ABC is dictating the means for interacting with Hack is
>> through Twitter, it's the YOT that dictates the way we communicate with
>> them.
>
> Yeah, the kids today, they just don't get it, do they...
>
>> "You want me to subscribe to a mailing list? But that takes, like, ten
>> seconds! And I have to reply to an email!"
>>
> you forgot; "and then I have to configure my phone, which is my sole means
> of communicating with people (due to not needing or wanting a phoneline at
> home), and my sole internet device (due to being out of the house all the
> time) to handle email, rather than using this inbuilt application that does
> twitter and facebook already."

Don't most phones have an email application either inbuilt or
available as well?  At the very least they have a browser...

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Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
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