From landlines to cell phones, from the post office to Email, from text messaging to tweeting we have moved from words to acronyms.
Recently one of my Grandsons asked me if I knew how to text. He was a little surprised when I said yes.
This opened the door for a little Grandfather reminiscing.
I told him that thirty years ago when I was in the building business it was sometimes easier to drive to a place to speak with someone than to get that person to use the technology of the time: answer a page. He asked “Gramps, why didn’t you call them on their cell phone?”
It’s funny how a person’s view of history starts with what they see, hear, and learn.
I started telling him when cell phones were invented and how effective they were then and now. He stopped me. “No that’s not what I am talking about.” On his cell phone he typed “!” and sent it to my phone.
I looked over my glasses. Without a word he typed “you can answer “huh”.
Another over the glasses look resulted in “CULA”.
Translation “!” I have a comment, “huh” what, “CULA” see you later alligator.
Do you tweet? Are you Linkedin? Did you Google it? Are you on YouTube and Facebook? Have you read the blog? Don’t forget “Meet-up”.
LOL I told them BTDTGTS (Been there, Done that, Got the T-shirt).
To all you silver surfers, TYVM for reading my blog.
If you are interested here are three links to pages that contain acronyms everyone should know.
http://www.netlingo.com/acronyms.php
http://www.netlingo.com/acronyms.php
http://searchcrm.techtarget.com/definition/Twitter-chat-and-text-messaging-abbreviations
