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Are you master of, or slave to, email, IM, Twitter, etc.

Asked by Austinlad (16323points) January 4th, 2010

There was a time when all you had to do was answer or not answer the phone, or reply or not reply to a letter. (I wonder how many of you remember that?) Now you’re bombarded by email and other forms of electronic communication—not only increasingly more of it, but increasingly FASTER. How do you feel about that?

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Pazza's avatar

Slave to Fluther!..........

I get really pissed when people in work expect you to have a mobile (that they don’t pay for!) and to answer it, and shout at you when your on site and they can’t get in touch with you.

GGGRRRrrrrr!......

chelseababyy's avatar

I’m a slave to technology. All of it.
I’m more like technology’s bitch.
I don’t mind though, I need to be dominated every once in a while.

Simone_De_Beauvoir's avatar

I am neither its slave or its master – as a Hegelian intersted in overcoming all binaries, I have transcended the gulf and am able to find myself one with technology and one without.

scotsbloke's avatar

I have a good working relationship with Technology.
It works so I don’t have to!
I do get withdrawl symptoms when I am away from my ‘puter and have been known to carry my laptop to the toilet (but dont tell anyone)
We get so caught up with emails and forums and messaging and stuff that we forget there is a REAL WORLD out there sometimes.
I call my computer “THE TIME THIEF”
But I wouldnt wanna be without it really. It needs me…......

jbfletcherfan's avatar

I’m a slave to the emails, FB & IMing. :-( No wonder I can’t seem to accomplish everything I want to do in a day.

Pseudonym's avatar

I’m a slave to the internet in general. Once I start surfing, I might as well be in a coma.

jeffgoldblumsprivatefacilities's avatar

I’m a slave to none of it, I do what I wanna do. No obligations.

J0E's avatar

I’m a master. I use them a lot but I can also just as easily not use them. Like when I go on vacation I often don’t use any of that stuff and I kinda like it that way.

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