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RE: Bots, Autodialers and Our Gradual De-Humanization

in #automation6 years ago (edited)

Enjoy your manual upvote tiny though it be!

I am oddly facile with technology but somewhat of a luddite. It all started with hold, call waiting and answering machines. The one thing that really gets my goat is call waiting. To me it basically tells me the person you put me on call waiting for is more important than me.

I wont be there when you get back :-)

Yes. I get a lot of robocalls. Several/day on average. Unfortunately I have to at least pick up as it is a business phone. Blocking the numbers doesn’t help at all. They just circulate to new #’s

Yes it is dehumanizing in a subtly insidious way.

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Thanks for the tiny manual upvote, which I return, in gratitude for actual human engagement.

useful bot...SInce we're all sending each other tiny upvotes, we all need to subscribe to @dustsweeper, so it's not all for naught. Yes, it's a bot. But at least it's a

Hahaha!!!

A marginally less tiny upvote as thanks for the @dustsweeper tip! And a good laugh.

Unfortunately that is my max or I would do more ;-)

I am not a total no-botter. I will hypocritcally use the ones that i think benefit me without hurting others too much :-0

I think @tipu is somewhat of a good mix as it allows one to tip others easily.