Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Great use of Facebook!! I use it to communicate with my four kids, scattered all over the USA. We all know much more about what each of us is doing thanks to Facebook (sometimes a good thing, sometimes not!) Tina On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>wrote: > Nice catch, Lluis. I personally find electronic communications very > useful, even if all the participants are in close proximity. Example: I am > sitting at my computer, reading the LUG, and my daughter is downstairs in > the den, watching TV. Because she always multitasks, I know that she is on > Facebook as well. It so happens that the fridge containing the Wajsman beer > supply also resides in the den. So...instead of waddling downstairs to > check what is available, I just send my daughter a Facebook Chat message, > she checks and informs me, and if I am lucky, even delivers the beverage of > choice to me. Now, that's progress! > > Saludos, > Nathan > > On 29 Aug 2012, at 16:22, Lluis Ripoll wrote: > > > Actually I see many people looking at their phones, young people mainly, > but even more older couples. What this mind? Is afraid our society of the > silence, of the solitude, of the own thoughts, of a conversation? In my > opinion the mobiles capture the attention of many people to the detriment > of the communication, the thoughts, the reading... as the TV sets does many > years ago. Now we can communicate with the end of the world, nevertheless > we do not do it with our own neighbor. I ask me how will be the future > generations... the title of the HCB portraits books come to me "An Inner > silence", but maybe this one will be an empty silence. > > > > > > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Barcelona/L1028511.jpg.html> > > > > M8, Summilux 35 pre asph, please view large > > > > Thanks for looking, your c&c are welcome > > > > Saludos cordiales > > Lluis > > > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/ > > http://lluisripollphotography.wordpress.com/ > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.nathanfoto.com > > Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Image licensing: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman > Blog: > http://www.nathansmusings.eu/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com