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Technology and Answering Services
Changing The Way We Communicate
_With all the new technological advances, there are more ways to get messages than ever before. Many people have multiple lines at home, family plan cell phones and the internet now offers home phone service through the Internet, called VOIP, (voice over internet protocol).
They have different ways to get messages, through voicemail, answering machines, text messages and emails. Some people have gone to professional answering services to handle their incoming calls through call forwarding.
If you have been watching the news lately, you may have seen the stories on the teenage girls that are racking up 17,000 or 24,000 text messages per month. Not only is this totally ridiculous, but I wonder what other parts or their life are suffering, while they are honing up the communication and social skills.
One girl’s dad is now restricting her from 10pm until 3 pm, so she can sleep and pay attention in school. Good for him! I’ve heard of communicating, but since when did kids have that much necessary communicating to do?
Also, there have been no long-term studies done to see what the long term effects of this kind of repetitive thumb action causes. You thought carpal tunnel was bad when the computer first became used for an 8 hour day.
What about a kid that is text-ing on a little phone for 24 hours a day? Obviously, there is such a thing as obsession and insecurity from not being in communication with others. The poor kid that has to sleep and pay attention in school is probably going to a psychologist now!
What has technology done to us in this constant need to keep in touch and get messages from others? It used to be when you went to the grocery store, the people at home got whatever you picked up or was on the list.
Now you hear cell phones going off all over the place and people picking up things off the isle and asking if that was what they wanted or did we need this or that. True, it can help save trips to the store for things you forgot, but how did we survive before this?
Communication in business has gone through some of the same technological advances. The need to communicate has always been there, but was restricted due to limited technology. You can hire an answering service to handle your business calls, faxes, chat online over the Internet with your customers, process orders and credit cards and any number of specialized business tasks.
Many companies are going to outsourcing tasks, including communicating with customers and answering phones or taking messages. This is especially important for self-employed service-people or professionals that need a personalized touch above a voicemail or email correspondence.
You can still hire an actual person to answer your phones and relay messages at a price lower than some cell plans.
Answering services have become more technologically advanced, through Internet chat, automated phone devices that offer an opportunity to speak with a live person, and VOIP call forwarding or voicemail and email processing. Technology and answering services are changing the way we communicate.
They have different ways to get messages, through voicemail, answering machines, text messages and emails. Some people have gone to professional answering services to handle their incoming calls through call forwarding.
If you have been watching the news lately, you may have seen the stories on the teenage girls that are racking up 17,000 or 24,000 text messages per month. Not only is this totally ridiculous, but I wonder what other parts or their life are suffering, while they are honing up the communication and social skills.
One girl’s dad is now restricting her from 10pm until 3 pm, so she can sleep and pay attention in school. Good for him! I’ve heard of communicating, but since when did kids have that much necessary communicating to do?
Also, there have been no long-term studies done to see what the long term effects of this kind of repetitive thumb action causes. You thought carpal tunnel was bad when the computer first became used for an 8 hour day.
What about a kid that is text-ing on a little phone for 24 hours a day? Obviously, there is such a thing as obsession and insecurity from not being in communication with others. The poor kid that has to sleep and pay attention in school is probably going to a psychologist now!
What has technology done to us in this constant need to keep in touch and get messages from others? It used to be when you went to the grocery store, the people at home got whatever you picked up or was on the list.
Now you hear cell phones going off all over the place and people picking up things off the isle and asking if that was what they wanted or did we need this or that. True, it can help save trips to the store for things you forgot, but how did we survive before this?
Communication in business has gone through some of the same technological advances. The need to communicate has always been there, but was restricted due to limited technology. You can hire an answering service to handle your business calls, faxes, chat online over the Internet with your customers, process orders and credit cards and any number of specialized business tasks.
Many companies are going to outsourcing tasks, including communicating with customers and answering phones or taking messages. This is especially important for self-employed service-people or professionals that need a personalized touch above a voicemail or email correspondence.
You can still hire an actual person to answer your phones and relay messages at a price lower than some cell plans.
Answering services have become more technologically advanced, through Internet chat, automated phone devices that offer an opportunity to speak with a live person, and VOIP call forwarding or voicemail and email processing. Technology and answering services are changing the way we communicate.