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Breaking this down as a comparison of fads or as something that is more or less trendy seems to me to miss key points.

Some situations, like making a purchase decision at a physical store, require in-the-moment communication. Comforting a friend who's having a hard time is better done by showing them they have your attention. Real-time discussion is often best there.

The article briefly touches on such scenarios but then snaps back to this as a trend matter, not a best tool for need matter. If you're sick with a cold you go to your regular doctor, but if you have a heart attack you go to a cardiologist. It would be ludicrous to have an article counting visits and concluding cardiologists are out of vogue or not popular. But this article reads that way to me.

Real-time discussion locks a person to a single activity. The need for that, for synchronous conversation, is less common so it's good there are ever more ways to do asynchronous communication, where the other party will read/hear eventually, and may subsequently respond eventually, but it seems to me outright wrong to describe real-time communication as out of vogue or not as popular.

Unnecessary intrusion was never popular. It's just that in the presence of bad tools it had to be tolerated more. But not all real-time conversation is intrusion. And not all audio or visual info has to be interactive/synchronous/real-time. Now we can factor things better.

Mechanisms like text or voice messaging or audio or video calls favor certain communicational needs at the expense of others. A compromise? Sort of. But it would be wrong to talk about oil paint vs watercolor or TV series vs song vs reading a book as always better or always worse. They're just different.

Instead of using the terminology of trend or popularity analysis, instead of counting Likes or watching stock value, it would be more helpful to identify a matrix or decision graph that associates situational needs with tech that will be respectful of participants needs for content privacy, for managing noise, to avoid being interrupted or to get timely info, to hide or convey emotions like fear or anger or doubt, to avoid detailing unnecessary information, to promote active and timely compromise, to manage many participants, to make it easy to refer back later or easy to have an ephemeral non-binding interaction, to deal with text or audio or video or mixed data...

Instead of having a preferred one-size-fits-all modality, understanding that each mode has characteristics that work for some needs and not others is good. Learning to ask, "for this need, which should I/we use?" would, in my view, be a better way to embrace new tech. These technologies need to collaborate, not compete.

#text #'voice #VoiceMessages #phone #phones #sms #social #SocialMedia #communication #tech #technology #WhatsApp #Messenger #Slack #UX #UI

Is there a #text-editor for #linux similar to textwrangler? With a window that can be uncluttered for general use as well as functionality for coding? The feature most missed on the #linuxmint default Xed I'm using is listing all occurrences of a search and having a decent window to construct complex searches.

Got this #text this #morning. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 ya #ok.

GOP Releases Game-Changing Texts Between Pelosi and Staff Discussing Jan 6th – “Please, Act Surprised…”
#GOP #NancyPelosi #Jan6th #Text #Surprised
https://mynews.one/gop-releases-game-changing-texts-between-pelosi-and-staff-discussing-jan-6th-please-act-surprised/

#cop27 ended on the 20th of November, this is my analysis and thoughts on the COP27 #Text.

I have very mixed feelings about #COP27 outcome, #lossanddamage funding is definitely good and is something that must be celebrated as my friend said. This is in the text due to the hard work of developing nations and those from #MAPA (most affected people and areas) and indigenous leaders on the frontlines of the #ClimateCrisis. The victory of this is the inclusion in the agenda but also the fact that a finance facility has been established.

There’s very weak language with regards to #fossilfuels, allows for the possibility of #liquidnaturalgas and #nuclear within #renewables which as we know does NOT work. Seems to be a rollback on #Glasgow

Is 1.5 still alive? No idea, it doesn’t matter. Every action does. I don’t believe COPs will ever be the ‘solution’ to the climate crisis. The real solution comes from the #actions of the #people.

“Our planet is still in the emergency room. We need to drastically reduce emissions now – and this is an issue this Cop did not address. The world still needs a giant leap on climate ambition.” - António Guterres

References
https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/cp2022_L19_adv.pdf
https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/chapter/chapter-2/
https://ourworldindata.org/greenhouse-gas-emissions