PSA: getting in touch
Apr. 28th, 2012 11:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishIn light of this NPR piece on the plethora of communication methods and the paralysis that they induce (thanks ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
vvalkyri), I present:
HOW TO REACH ME: a semidefinitive guide
(This is separate from contact info [DW / LJ].)
Email: Ideal. With rare exceptions I'll see email within a couple hours of you sending it. Downside: it may take me awhile to get around to responding.
Phone call: Good if you need to talk to me right away. I occasionally forget to turn the ringer on and miss calls, but if I notice I'll nearly always answer the phone and be willing to talk for a bit, or longer if needed. I'm also happy to call you in response to a txt / call you right back, as I have free calls to the US. Downside: my hearing is not what it once was so I may ask you to repeat yourself a bit.
Text message: Also decent. I miss texts more often than phone calls, because even when the buzzer's on it only buzzes twice. And if we're exchanging more than a couple of txts I'd rather talk than type on the tiny screen. Texting to the US is free for me, though texting to Canada may not be for you.
Gchat: I'm almost never online these days. To the left, it's my preferred form of real-time conversation. An email/phonecall/txt saying "hey, can i catch you online this evening?" will, unless I have something else going on, almost always get you a "sure!" And if you happen to see me online, feel free to poke me; if I didn't want to talk I wouldn't be online.
DW/LJ comments / Twitter @replies: Not precisely private, not necessarily fast. On the upside, I think they have a higher rate of response than just about anything else.
Facebook message / Twitter DM / DW/LJ direct message / other platform-specific messaging system: Eh. I'll see these, and respond to them, but they create a low-grade level of irritation.
Snail-mail: Yes please. It's not timely, but it makes me very happy.
vvalkyri), I present:HOW TO REACH ME: a semidefinitive guide
(This is separate from contact info [DW / LJ].)
Email: Ideal. With rare exceptions I'll see email within a couple hours of you sending it. Downside: it may take me awhile to get around to responding.
Phone call: Good if you need to talk to me right away. I occasionally forget to turn the ringer on and miss calls, but if I notice I'll nearly always answer the phone and be willing to talk for a bit, or longer if needed. I'm also happy to call you in response to a txt / call you right back, as I have free calls to the US. Downside: my hearing is not what it once was so I may ask you to repeat yourself a bit.
Text message: Also decent. I miss texts more often than phone calls, because even when the buzzer's on it only buzzes twice. And if we're exchanging more than a couple of txts I'd rather talk than type on the tiny screen. Texting to the US is free for me, though texting to Canada may not be for you.
Gchat: I'm almost never online these days. To the left, it's my preferred form of real-time conversation. An email/phonecall/txt saying "hey, can i catch you online this evening?" will, unless I have something else going on, almost always get you a "sure!" And if you happen to see me online, feel free to poke me; if I didn't want to talk I wouldn't be online.
DW/LJ comments / Twitter @replies: Not precisely private, not necessarily fast. On the upside, I think they have a higher rate of response than just about anything else.
Facebook message / Twitter DM / DW/LJ direct message / other platform-specific messaging system: Eh. I'll see these, and respond to them, but they create a low-grade level of irritation.
Snail-mail: Yes please. It's not timely, but it makes me very happy.