We did the same thing on messenger at the previous job I´ve been. Weird, but sometimes it feels more convenient to type out, than talk to the person next to you 🙂
Hi Sean,
here is another one I’d like to see you do. A young couple walking through a beautiful landscape, holding hands, and each talking on their mobiles.
FB can be useful – my 18 year old daughter is currently doing Camp America. I have been trying to synchronize a Skype call since the beginning of June. Last Friday I noticed she had just posted on her wall, so I FB msg-ed her asking if she had time for a chat – and yay! she did (it was 1am her time). Admittedly she is a bit further away than the characeters in the above cartoon….
Facebook isn’t the media massage* in our office. Sadly we email or text one another from one room to the next.
*For those of you too young to remember Marshall McLuhan (and that would be all of you) – he wrote (in the late 1960’s) about the media being the message then later changed the title to “The Media is the Massage.” BTW he predicted the World Wide Web about 30 years before it actually happened.
hi Sean, congratulations!! I saw myself so clear…like a mirrow!!
Sometimes it is the only way I find I can get the boys (18 & 13) to answer me and communicate! … without getting grumpy at me, for interrupting them!
it is crazy, when you think about it!!
It kinda reminds me of the radio commercial about the husband and wife chatting over the cell phone about what to bring home for dinner. Turns out they’re one aisle away from each other in the grocery store. 🙂
I thought it was bad when we emailed each other from the kitchen on the 1st floor to my office on the 2nd. But now I have to admit that we sometimes email each other in the same room. Great cartoon!
Alison says
Classic!
Doesn’t happen round here – hubby is not a Facebooker. but still classic – I can just imagine that in your office!!
Sean D'Souza says
I moved. I’m now in another room in the office.
cheetu says
I cannot control FB, if I start in it, I go on looping. But it’s a nice idea to get into it at evenings
Sean D'Souza says
Yup it’s evening here. But morning for you.
anne marsh says
FB can waste yer time, but I also catch up with what people I love but see seldom are up to. It’s close to being a peeping Tom at times.
Igor says
We did the same thing on messenger at the previous job I´ve been. Weird, but sometimes it feels more convenient to type out, than talk to the person next to you 🙂
Sean D'Souza says
Specially if the person is grumpy like me.
Richard Francis says
Hi Sean,
here is another one I’d like to see you do. A young couple walking through a beautiful landscape, holding hands, and each talking on their mobiles.
have a go!
Cheers,
Richard
Noel Rodrigue says
Talking to each other?
Sean D'Souza says
Could be worse. Never had a fight on Facebook yet.
Ali R. Rodriguez says
Dreadful, Sean!
Sean D'Souza says
I know. Sad, but true 🙂
Bonzaros says
What? Is your life different?
Sean D'Souza says
I know. We’re stuck to our chairs 🙂 Weird lot we are!
Derek Antonievich says
Ok, I am only laughing ’cause it’s true:)
Nice work S.
Sean D'Souza says
We do this a lot.
Helen Wenley says
FB can be useful – my 18 year old daughter is currently doing Camp America. I have been trying to synchronize a Skype call since the beginning of June. Last Friday I noticed she had just posted on her wall, so I FB msg-ed her asking if she had time for a chat – and yay! she did (it was 1am her time). Admittedly she is a bit further away than the characeters in the above cartoon….
Sean D'Souza says
My dad does it too. If my skype is off he’ll trace me to Facebook. He gets me in the end.
Yvonne Root says
Facebook isn’t the media massage* in our office. Sadly we email or text one another from one room to the next.
*For those of you too young to remember Marshall McLuhan (and that would be all of you) – he wrote (in the late 1960’s) about the media being the message then later changed the title to “The Media is the Massage.” BTW he predicted the World Wide Web about 30 years before it actually happened.
Sean D'Souza says
Oh we do that too!
Joshua Rasco says
FB, not a bad idea… I have tried Skyping my wife from within the same room but always too much feedback…
Ana Maria Castagnet says
hi Sean, congratulations!! I saw myself so clear…like a mirrow!!
Sometimes it is the only way I find I can get the boys (18 & 13) to answer me and communicate! … without getting grumpy at me, for interrupting them!
it is crazy, when you think about it!!
Sean D'Souza says
Crazy for us, not them.
Marlene Hielema says
Love this Sean.
That’s how I communicate with teenagers and young adults! Well, that and texting. It’s the only way to get their attention. Phone calls don’t work.
Sean D'Souza says
Makes you wonder what’s next after txt.
Frances Schagen says
For us it’s Skype. D isn’t on FB.
It’s also a private way to chat with kids wandering around.
Michelle Russell says
Best one so far, Sean!
It kinda reminds me of the radio commercial about the husband and wife chatting over the cell phone about what to bring home for dinner. Turns out they’re one aisle away from each other in the grocery store. 🙂
Sean D'Souza says
That “is” funny.
Steve Gasser says
This is exactly the way conversations happen at my house! Too funny!
Sean D'Souza says
Nice to see you, Steve.
Courtney says
Substitute Google Chat and that’s so our house! 🙂
Sean D'Souza says
Ah now it’s battle of which chat to use.
Bonnie says
I thought it was bad when we emailed each other from the kitchen on the 1st floor to my office on the 2nd. But now I have to admit that we sometimes email each other in the same room. Great cartoon!
Kristie McDonald says
Yeah – on a similar note my kids have started video skyping me while i’m working – from their bedrooms to my office downstairs! Sad? LOL
Sean D'Souza says
Maybe. Maybe not.
Neil Smith@Life Insurance New Zealand says
We’re so boring I still use the intercom on the phone, from my office, across the hallway to her “command control” area in the living room.
She always complains when I come out late at night and want to talk. She says, you have an office where you can hide away all day! I don’t! (Go away).
Sean D'Souza says
Looks like you need another ‘office’