Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Please use texting as your main form of communication. Please?

Okay, it took me forever to own a cellphone, but it's obvious that texting is the most efficient way to communicate 95% of all dialogue. I'm at a point where if someone calls me I don't answer, let it go to voicemail, listen to their voicemail and then send a response back via text. Got it baby boomers?
For example, a Baby Boomer is approximately half as likely as a member of Generation Y or Generation X to own a smartphone. Only eight percent of younger Baby Boomers and six percent of older Baby Boomers say they use a mobile device for work E-mail, compared with 12 percent of Gen Xers. Understanding how different generations interact with technology will help you tailor your implementation and training strategies so that all employees can make the most of your initiatives.

5 comments:

Bag Blog said...

I text quite a bit these days, but then I am a fairly cool babyboomer. My daughter and I would rather not have to go through the process of listening to our messages. So we have agreed not to leave messages. She did get after me for replying to her text while I was driving, but she knew I was driving when she texted me first!

Kath said...

Our state just went hands free, which is fine bec. I can put the cell away and talk on the line I have in the car -- uh, except I can't rem. always what that number is. Bec. who remembers ph. numbers anymore, you just look in your phone, right? It's very frustrating.

But then I can't text -- crap.

Wek said...

I'm gonna start asking that you 2 start texting me your blog comments.

Bag Blog said...

We do have another rule at our house about texting - no texting while drinking.

Kath said...

BB -- and think twice about that late at night texting while drinking thing, too. Or just take my phone away. :(