I'm amazed at the regularity with which my Facebook contacts try to send me messages. A Facebook message comes to you like a traditional online messenger. Yahoo and Windows Messenger services were well patronized before the advent of mobile phone text messaging. I wonder how many people still use Yahoo or Windows Messengers.
Which ties up to my topic here. What all the online services have tried to do in the post mobile telephone era is to consolidate their operating systems (OS) in a way that you don't need to log in anymore to Facebook to be on Facebook. I am a Windows person.
My Nokia Lumia 920 is primed to deliver notifications (they call it "push notifications") which you select at set up of your phone system. Push is also available now on Windows 8 PC's and tablets.
Because I am signed for "push", my Facebook account is constantly updating all my friends' statuses, photos and calendar events, especially everyone's birthdays.
Because I opted for push, it also means I authorize my OS to access my Facebook account and keep me "logged in" perennially. As long as my phone or Windows PCs are within internet reach, all my friends can see me "logged in". Even if I am jogging, sleeping, having coffee at Caribou or having lunch with my family at Perkins or Old Country, as long as I have access to the internet, it is assumed I am on Facebook.
So, apologies to my many friends, cousins and nephews whose messages I don't reply to. Sometimes I see those messages coming in but at very inappropriate times, like in church services, organizational meetings, doing corporate planning and while driving. I will endeavor to reply when convenient.
I'm sure I'm not alone and everyone can identify with my post modern social media and communication experiences. We don't know what things would be like in 5, 10 or 20 years from now. Let's just keep our friendship and enjoy whatever technology brings our way next.
I'm amazed at the regularity with which my Facebook contacts try to send me messages. A Facebook message comes to you like a traditional online messenger. Yahoo and Windows Messenger services were well patronized before the advent of mobile phone text messaging. I wonder how many people still use Yahoo or Windows Messengers.
Which ties up to my topic here. What all the online services have tried to do in the post mobile telephone era is to consolidate their operating systems (OS) in a way that you don't need to log in anymore to Facebook to be on Facebook. I am a Windows person.
My Nokia Lumia 920 is primed to deliver notifications (they call it "push notifications") which you select at set up of your phone system. Push is also available now on Windows 8 PC's and tablets.
Because I am signed for "push", my Facebook account is constantly updating all my friends' statuses, photos and calendar events, especially everyone's birthdays.
Because I opted for push, it also means I authorize my OS to access my Facebook account and keep me "logged in" perennially. As long as my phone or Windows PCs are within internet reach, all my friends can see me "logged in". Even if I am jogging, sleeping, having coffee at Caribou or having lunch with my family at Perkins or Old Country, as long as I have access to the internet, it is assumed I am on Facebook.
So, apologies to my many friends, cousins and nephews whose messages I don't reply to. Sometimes I see those messages coming in but at very inappropriate times, like in church services, organizational meetings, doing corporate planning and while driving. I will endeavor to reply when convenient.
I'm sure I'm not alone and everyone can identify with my post modern social media and communication experiences. We don't know what things would be like in 5, 10 or 20 years from now. Let's just keep our friendship and enjoy whatever technology brings our way next.
