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Subject: [Leica] Communicatopn or Incommunication?
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2012 10:44:33 -0400
References: <349984F0-0B1D-4B1D-8A9B-AAF0B82100C0@gmail.com> <3A913B6C-228C-4D3B-AD05-1EC11A86050D@frozenlight.eu>

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/
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
>
> 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/
>
>
>
>
>
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-- 
Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com


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