{"id":1020,"date":"2004-01-05T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2004-01-05T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2004\/01\/05\/skype_and_insta-access.html"},"modified":"2004-01-05T12:00:20","modified_gmt":"2004-01-05T12:00:20","slug":"skype_and_insta-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2004\/01\/05\/skype_and_insta-access.html","title":{"rendered":"skype and insta-access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corante.com\/many\/archives\/2003\/10\/05\/sociocultural_concerns_about_skype.php\">When i tried to frame my hesitation over Skype<\/a>, i was sent through the wringer both online and offline.  I felt like a heretic.  As such, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corante.com\/many\/archives\/2004\/01\/05\/new_rule_dont_call_me_if_you_dont_know_me.php\">Dave Weinberger&#8217;s frustration today made me grin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even IM tends to drive me batty and i turn it off when i need to work.  (Of course, somehow, i feel as though i&#8217;m allowed to blog while i&#8217;m writing a paper even if i&#8217;m not allowed to be interactive.)  Voice takes things to the next level.  I have no qualms ignoring IMs while i&#8217;m working or telling people that i&#8217;m working and can&#8217;t talk.  I don&#8217;t give out my IM to the world at large; i don&#8217;t allow IMs from people i don&#8217;t know; and i rarely have time\/hand power to just chat on IM.  Voice is a whole new level of not-OK.<\/p>\n<p>Just because VOIP solves certain economic problems (particularly for members of a diaspora) does not mean that it alters my conniption fits about my relationship with voice interactions.  I *hate* the phone and i HATE being interupted while working even more.  Of course, there are exceptions and i usually answer my cell for friends, even if only to say that i can&#8217;t really talk right now.  But the idea of getting random calls from strangers is about the most horrifying thing that i can imagine.  Eek!   I definitely feel for Dave&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When i tried to frame my hesitation over Skype, i was sent through the wringer both online and offline. I felt like a heretic. As such, Dave Weinberger&#8217;s frustration today made me grin. Even IM tends to drive me batty and i turn it off when i need to work. (Of course, somehow, i feel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}