No, I haven't started carrying advertisers on my blog! Just wanted to draw your attention to the Verizon ad in the Boston Globe today with this copy:
Keep your family connected on the Verizon network.
Verizon Wireless + Verizon Local and Long Distance
Now you can keep family connected more than ever before!
"More than ever before..." I wonder if Verizon should have paused and reflected before making that promise. I wonder if there's anything Verizon can do to connect today's families more closely than "ever before." Even before phones were invented? Back when families lived together, ate together, played together, talked together, prayed together, walked together, rested together, worked together?Verizon Wireless + Verizon Local and Long Distance
Now you can keep family connected more than ever before!
A phone was always a part of my home growing up but few were the times when I needed a phone to connect with my family. When I was a child if I wasn't home I was down the street at my friend Louis' house and if my mother was looking for me she would have walked down the street before calling my friend's mother.
In my family we hardly ever called each other on the phone when I was growing up because you don't call someone who's sitting in the front seat of the car. You don't call someone who's in the living room. You don't make a phone call to someone who's in the backyard. You don't call someone who's sitting across the kitchen table from you. You don't call someone who's helping you with your homework. You just look up, or walk into the next room or out the back door to the yard, and you talk... Now that's being connected!
Somebody ought to sue Verizon for false advertising. No way they can possibly connect a family today "more than ever before."
Ditto on your comment.
ReplyDeleteMy mom who died at the age of 82, and raised 7 children used to say in her later years, "what did we ever do without cell phones, ATM's and microwaves". It is true that they certainly make life easier, but a connection is sorely missed when we rely on these gadgets. But, as many of us do, I use them all the time. Sometimes the phones DO keep us connected, especially when our loved ones move away.
Guilty as charged, that I am!
Riding down the highway, I easily can spot a few DVD players playing in the back of vans. I wonder if these parents even talk to their children? Gadgets. Not always the best thing.
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