Kevin's Watch

Discussing social media with my family, and my recent KW addiction in particular, Mum suggested to younger sister Sarah that she could join an Austin forum at some point. Her response:

"That's why I read, so I don't have to talk to people."

Dear God, we've raised a misanthropist.

Cambo wrote:Discussing social media with my family, and my recent KW addiction in particular, Mum suggested to younger sister Sarah that she could join an Austin forum at some point. Her response:

"That's why I read, so I don't have to talk to people."

Dear God, we've raised a misanthropist.

This is so Beorn.
But with his aspergers, it is easily understood.
...and he is getting somewhat better.
I have some hope that he might socialize once at college...
...please...

I think the attitude is easily understood even without aspergers. I certainly use books to escape from...well, everything. I love people, but sometimes they're just...too much.

I know a couple of guys with aspergers, and a couple of autistics. The socialising thing is really as much to do with everyone else as with them. Many people, especially young people, just don't have the patience to deal with difference or social difficulty of any kind. With the cases I've known, it's not so much that they've had to learn to "come out of their shell" or whatever, it's been the people around them growing up enough to look for the worth in them.

Tell her she's not talking to other people...she's reading other people....

Touche, Vain. Touche.

The Watch doesn't really count as social media anyway. (Although obviously it is.) Anyway, you're all imaginary, so what difference does it make?

--A

I think we should change the watch into a facebook group........actually nah scrap that idea. Twitter is where it's at

Uh, Vain? We already have a Facebook group for the Watch. Menolly started it.

Dunno about Twitter for this crowd, tho. I'd like to see rusmeister, for one, try to confine himself to 140 characters!

Twitter's for Twits! I don't even own a cellphone anymore--I refuse to text or twit in my lifetime!

I bet you don't have a cellphone any more because you keep losing it!

HAHA! I had to have a cell when I taught---having a young daughter I do need one---there's too expensive-need to get one of those pre-paid thinghys...

I wish I could get a plan with a tiny number of minutes but unlimited texting, since that's the way my kids seem to prefer to communicate....

aliantha wrote:Uh, Vain? We already have a Facebook group for the Watch. Menolly started it.

Actually, there is Syl's Kevin's Watch Facebook group as well. I created the Watchers Facebook group to check out Facebook's group chat feature. I'm glad those who are part of the Watchers group are sticking around and still posting.

There is also the KW Addicts group, Hello, I'm <name>, it's been 45 seconds since I visited Kevin's Watch. As well as an Ask Esmer... group. Both of those have lain fallow for awhile though.

aliantha wrote:I wish I could get a plan with a tiny number of minutes but unlimited texting, since that's the way my kids seem to prefer to communicate....

ali, my AT&T Go Phone is pretty much this.

I pay $25 for three months of service. In that three months, if I use the phone to make a call, I am charge $1 each day I use it. Mobile to mobile within AT&T is free; all others are pretty expensive at 10 cents/minute. So, I do my best not to call with it. I have Google Voice for free long distance calls using my landline from home, and all local calls are free on my landline number.

With the $25 over three months, I buy a texting package of 1,000 texts per month for $10. As long as you rebuy that package before it expires, unused texts roll over for the next year, with any unused in the following months doing the same. For me, depending on Pantheon and Fist's amount of texting in response to that, I find that I can roll over texts every other month or so using the 200 texts for $5 option for a month. I like to have about 750 texts available per month, so if my rollover is below 500, I buy the 1,000 texts again.

I tend to spend about $30 every other month on this plan, with the few calls I do make on the cell phone. This works for me, although I have been tempted by the $40 per month for unlimited talk and text Metro PCS advertises. And my old Cingular phone is in it's final drawn out death throes. It looks like a new phone of some sort will be in my future soon.

We've got a family plan with Verizon. We'd go over 1,000 texts so fast, it wouldn't even be funny....

Actually, I get a discount on the base plan through work. The thing that killed me with this most recent renewal is Verizon's insistence on an extra monthly "data plan" charge if your phone is Internet capable. For the Droids, it's $30/month each. For myself, I opted for less-cool phone and the $10/month plan. I almost never use my phone to go online, so I feel like that $10 is money wasted. But all the phones with QWERTY keyboards are also Internet capable, and I want the QWERTY keyboard for texting. I tell ya, they get ya comin' and goin' these days...

Sounds like normal teenage angst to me Cambo. If your mum had said to her 'Why don't you read a book instead of going goggle eyed infront of the computer every day her response would have been "Mum! boks are so yesterday. Their just boring".

Hah. My sister has her share of teenaged angst to inflict on the rest of us. But I can't imagine her ever, ever, talking that way about books. Her main Christmas present his year was a complete set of mint condition Agatha Christie books. She started reading the fourth yesterday.

Ahh yes - but I'm not talking about what your sister thinks of books I'm talking about what a teenage girl might say to her mum about what she thought about books if her mum had the temerity to make a suggestion to her

Avatar wrote:Anyway, you're all imaginary, so what difference does it make?

--A

No, you're imaginary.

Cagliostro wrote:

Avatar wrote:Anyway, you're all imaginary, so what difference does it make?

--A

No, you're imaginary.

I prefer to think of all of you as true zeroes since:

Zero is the only number that is considered both real and imaginary

Vraith wrote:

Cagliostro wrote:

Avatar wrote:Anyway, you're all imaginary, so what difference does it make?

--A

No, you're imaginary.

I prefer to think of all of you as true zeroes since:

Zero is the only number that is considered both real and imaginary

This is dovetailing nicely into the "what is up with 99% of women?" thread...