tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-124183401047386327.post9191768321129209897..comments2023-08-17T03:43:20.335-07:00Comments on What's up?: Leaving the IslandAlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14738462345516637421noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-124183401047386327.post-12787067508516576192008-08-14T21:08:00.000-07:002008-08-14T21:08:00.000-07:00Great article Al!I am new to Twitter but I left th...Great article Al!<BR/><BR/>I am new to Twitter but I left the island several years ago. When I got back to the US in 2004 (after working for 10 years for an international satellite TV company) I was astonished by how few people were truly connected. Marty may be able to explain my surprise when I was issued a VBCPS cell phone and it did not have text messaging capabilities…. “What do you mean you do not text? How do you stay in touch?” I had come from a place where we monitored critical IT systems via text messaging across countries. We had also launched a service in 2003 so that customers could order PPV events using cell phone txt messages and our installation techs were using their cell phones to activate boxes in customer homes using the internet via early WAP protocol. Of course, the biggest use of cell phone messaging was the social interaction between friends across countries and across the seas.<BR/><BR/>Nevertheless, we are all immigrants. We had to leave the island. This is not the case with our children who were not born on an island. I witness it with my teenage daughter who spent half of her life in another country. Her BFF lives a few thousand miles away; yet they are both involved in each other’s life as if they still live near each other. They know what is going on in each other’s life every day. They also share friends and when they get the opportunity to meet in either country, there is no catching up to do. They just go out and have fun with their friends whom they communicate daily using Web 2.0<BR/><BR/>Btw, we have come a long way today in DOT. We now use cell phone messages to monitor IT systems; we average about 1000 txt messages per month for each DOT tech cell phone. <BR/><BR/>Last thought: I had fun watching LisaNova's Youtube! :)Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08214097956062368901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-124183401047386327.post-27014056992508765972008-08-14T18:58:00.000-07:002008-08-14T18:58:00.000-07:00great thoughts. watching others sneak in twitter ...great thoughts. watching others sneak in twitter time at the conference encouraged me to at least swim off the island at bit. I might just keep swimming.Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08113840695229704509noreply@blogger.com