Pluggers by Rick McKee for June 05, 2024

Sorry I did’nt answer my phone when you called the other day, I don’t use it for that!

I took a typing class in high school, but never got better than the two-finger “hunt and peck” method. Almost 60 years later, that’s the same way I type (text) today.

Use vice-to-text

Like me, she probably texts in complete sentences.

My favorite feature on my iPhone and car is that I can dictate a text and send it hands free to anyone on my contact list. Next I would like a feature to do the same to the driver of the car that cut me off on the freeway……

Progress!

Prefer to talk to someone. Seldom do I text ;-)

Ain’t easy typing on teeny tiny onscreen keyboard on tiny little device with yer bear hands see.

You’re gonna need a bigger keyboard.

never took typing but video games kept my fingers agile so I can text pretty fast

And yet another hard-won skill rendered obsolete — like writing cursive, or doing math calculations long-hand on paper!

I did transcription x 20 yrs. Now i text with one finger.

I get a text every 3-4 days, phone calls less often. I’m fine with this.

And start texts with “Hi, this is …” even though they know they come up in the receiver’s caller ID.

My fave iphone feature is the one that allows me to just shut it off for a while : )

Mostly time spent correcting autocorrect.

Plugger should sign up for SpeechText 101.

Voice to Text is a great newer feature. Not sure if it works on those ‘Senior Phones’, though ;)

Same here.

Even less wpm on the computer and a lot of mistakes.

Not this plugger. I can do over 100 wpm on a keyboard but I absolutely REFUSE to text. I don’t have the patience.

and she can do even that with those sausage fingers??

This is so true for us pluggers.

Sounds about right for me and my flip phone. :)

I hate those little keyboards. It’s a “crippled” interface designed for minimum space and minimum ease of use. I carry a folding bluetooth keyboard so I can actually type phone messages.

90% or better of the texts I write are “ok” and are to husband. As in dinner is ready “ok” come down.

Then there is “?” as in “what do you want for dinner” or pre-Covid when we wandered separately in stores when we went to them it meant “where are you so we can leave as I am bored silly walking around in the store – same one we were walking yesterday” – now we tend to stay together and leave stores much quicker.

Okay to be fair I also talk to my 95yo mom on Sunday evenings for an hour while I cook dinner so my sister – her primary caretaker – does not have to call her at her nursing home that night to talk.

And to do this I pay how much every month? Plus paying for his cell phone so he can get my text message. Plus the house phone line. Plus the online phone he has for his counseling practice – which he closed 3 years ago.

I figured out that when we make a phone call it costs us around $50 a call for a call of seconds – other than my mom – as we make so few calls.