Msn? Bah.

Call this a 'I hate technology' moment but some of you may (or may not) have noticed my new screename (I hardly think most people do). Reason behind it?

I'm really, really disliking the use of MSN as a means to communicate. I mean, whatever happened to the phone? I'm just finding the use of MSN really silly. You send a message, you wait a few minutes for a reply. It's not as good as a phonecall, you can't keep up a 'fluid' conversation really also, through MSN and any IM-type programme for that matter, it's very hard to tell what the person is saying. By this, I mean that the conversions lack the ability sometimes to convey an emotion. You can't tell in what sense someone is writing something or what tone they've assumed. You can't tell if someone is really "listening" or in this, case reading. (When you're IM'ing you're not talking, you're typing)

Mind, since many of you are surely busy, a phonecall isn't possible and I recognize that; I just don't want to use MSN anymore at the moment (it's a really good thing then that I didn't go for a seperate phone line altogether---that would've been a HUGE waste of money). MSN isn't altogether bad, it's just...there are times (and have been very many times) where I just want to talk to people rathter than type, wait, type another sentence, wait, type a word, wait etc. etc. (I think I've just grown tired of Instant Messeging)

In reality, no one really ever phones me (much) so *shrug* to that. Actually the only people who ever phoned me were relatives...or well, most if not all the phonecalls to our house in Calgary were calls for dad. I've been more a secretary than anything. Meh.

I'm going to stick to email (gmail) and the telephone for methods of communication for a bit. May or not sign in to MSN unless I really need to. You know, hearing a voice is better than the clickity-clackity of a keyboard and the 'do-do-da!' of the reply alarms.

Skype works too, it's just I'll only be able to type and listen but not speak. Again, box of stuff still has not arrived and I doubt dad has sent it.

(I can be up this late because I have a class at 1pm.)