Re: Seen more activity in a graveyard

In article <1142265242.011019.218060@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Mabon Dane <mdane@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello John

Yes, your internet skills are impressive and you are one of the
few who are able to, or are bothered to get to grips with the
internet from the 50+ age groups.

There's an old lesson I learned many years ago: if you do everything
correctly and someone doesn't understand, it's their fault. If you
do something wrong, it could be argued that it's your fault. My
fully-compliant style is actually "lazier" in a sense, as it
probably saves me a lot of aggro in practice ;-)

I also agree about the younger age groups, whose internet
communication skills have been affected by text messaging on
mobile phones are lazy in their communication.

Ah, those gadgets...

Any message to me along the lines of "y r u..." or finishing in
"plz" usually get a negative response from me.

Hmm. There are ways to deal with such things gently, aren't there?

I can handle things like omg (oh my god) and wtf (what the f...)

"fool", I assume...

and even lowercase messages but lazy messaging is not good.

It isn't good, but is probably a sign of the times (to employ an old
but still valid expression). Hopefully that trend will reverse one
day, as trends often do. Many aspects of life go in cycles, I've
noticed over the years (all right, decades!)

Councils that need to reach out to younger generations need to
understand what they are dealing with. Generation Y's are rather
like a load of intoxicated bumblebees when it comes to
communication, where their attention span is short and bounce
from one subject to the next in a random fashion.

I still don't know what "Generation Y" means; but if it's of any
interest we in Medway Council do utilise text messaging to the
younger folk as an option, and just about every other means of
modern communication.

If a council decides to produce a complicated wordy communication
directed at a Generation Y it will have the same affect as the
Titanic on an iceberg.

Short and to the point is one of our stylistic methods for the
younder set in particular, I've noticed in recent years' newsletters
and other communications, but I suspect we still have a way to go in
some areas. Ah, well: stepwise refinement is clearly the way to
continue in this arena...

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John M Ward - see http://www.horsted.john-ward.org.uk
Conservative Councillor for Rochester South & Horsted ward, Medway
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