Ha ha about children all neurotic over virtual pets.
Even back in 1983 my brother and I had a toy robot - Tommy the Talking Robot, I think he was called. But he ddn't come close to replacing the cats in our affections. Or our soft toys, sweet though he was.
I do prefer phones to internet, as I find it frustrating only having friends in typeface and not in real time and not hearing their voices. But I can understand your phone-dislike too. And I hate it when people keep their mobile phones on and answer them and talk to people on them when they are visiting me. Very rude!
I have found the internet very isolating: I used to have friends who called me and actually saw me! But then without internet contact I'd have almost noo one, and without Skype I wouldn't see my godson in Japan at all, and I wouldn't have met or virtually met nice people like you.
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Even back in 1983 my brother and I had a toy robot - Tommy the Talking Robot, I think he was called. But he ddn't come close to replacing the cats in our affections. Or our soft toys, sweet though he was.
I do prefer phones to internet, as I find it frustrating only having friends in typeface and not in real time and not hearing their voices. But I can understand your phone-dislike too. And I hate it when people keep their mobile phones on and answer them and talk to people on them when they are visiting me. Very rude!
I have found the internet very isolating: I used to have friends who called me and actually saw me! But then without internet contact I'd have almost noo one, and without Skype I wouldn't see my godson in Japan at all, and I wouldn't have met or virtually met nice people like you.