Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for January 28, 2013

I hate passwords…I can never remember them…They’re a big pain in the * ____________ (Required field)…

Just out of curiosity, who do you think texts more, women or men? Jus’ Axin’

@ varneswomen, the ones that don’t have a paying job, especially when they’re driving, often with kids in the back.

I can’t keep renaming my cat every time I need a new password.

Oh, man, I just got it! Janis is answering Arlo’s question with the old single digit salute. Sheesh, I’m kinda slow this morning!

She has a middle friend…

Naughty Janis. Every time my wife has problem with technology the discussion ends that same way.

Okay . . . well Johnson has done it to me again . . . I asked the wife if she understood today’s strip . . . she said that she wasn’t sure, so I explained it to her . . . she gave me the finger and left for Pilates.

Actually, texting is more of an age issue than a gender issue. The younger generation is far more comfortable to texting than I am. I prefer to have a more human conversation that includes nuances of voice and body language. Texting is too antiseptic in that it only has one small part of comunication.

Om the gender issue, from what I have obseved, women seem to be more likely to be texting and are more proficient at it. However, I have used texting far more than my wife who is 16 years younger than I. As far as I know my wife has sent zero texts in the last year as opposed to my almost a dozen.

An anecdote does not proof make, but Saturday when I was driving home from the gym, a man prob. in his 20’s was standing in the street with his back to the traffic, about a foot away from the curb, texting. Since I didn’t want to knock him to Glory and there was traffic in the lane next to mine, I had to cree-eep by him slowly and almost stop. He finally looked up at me and I gave him the most industrial-strength fish eye I could manage through wraparound sunglasses. As I drove away, I could see him still standing in the street for awhile longer, then slowly ambling onto the grass. Women may well text more, but men do it more spectacularly.

Never understood texting, except for the RARE occasion for really needed privacy, or subtlety in certain situations. You push a lot fewer buttons to actually talk to someone. And I prefer English instead of having to learn the new language of “text speak”.

I don’t text, but many of my hearing impaired patients prefer it. Less chance of getting mixed up because something was misheard.

I have never understood why people have conversations by texting. My daughter and her boyfriend do it all the the time. Why not just call the person? For that matter, instead of texting, why not use a Telegraph?

.— …. .- – / .- / … .. .-.. .-.. .- / .— - .-. .-.. .. / .- . / .-.. .. …- . / .. . ..-.-

I don’t think she’s texting. “Privacy controls” are part of Farcebook.

A quick question or confirmation works better by text, for me. Also allows the recipient the flexibility of answering when time permits.

Re: Passwords

I use one word everywhere, but with certain prescribed variations. I had trouble logging in to Google for a while, and had to repeatedly change it. The problem is that Google will not let you reuse passwords, so I ran out of variations. That made it harder to remember them, which meant more changes………..death spiral………until (thank God) it finally accepted the old, original word (for some unknown reason).

What I really can’t stand is driving behind someone talking on their cell phone while driving much slower than the limit, because people are inherently unable to do things at once and do both well, if at all. One or the other or both of the activities will suffer. My observations have men doing this far more often than women. I used to save phoning people to catch up with them for when I was on the road, but decided I was already much too prone to not paying as much attention as I should to the road while driving (yes, I’m a woman and I’m admitting to this). Better safe than sorry!

Hmmm, funny thing is the only person who keeps trying to send me texts AFTER I told them not to is my MALE cousin. (I’ve tried to get AT&T to disable all text/sms/garbage but they still let the “multimedia” messages" through, which o/c cost more.) So he gets ticked that I don’t respond, even though I’ve never seen the message…...And the person driving though the traffic light at 3 mph b/c the phone is in front of the face 3 days ago? GUY.And on the other side, cousins’ kids’: Guy — txt gf all through Chrsitmas; Girl — brought her bf who then hung out with all the other teenages playing Xbox and bumper pool. Now of the Older gen, my Aunt was the one uploading picts to FB, but my uncle can’t even hold a pencil thanks to joint damage so hey there’s not really a comparison there.

I’m glad some of you explained the strip. I didn’t get it at all!

That’s silly talk! Alienate them from what? From whom? It doesn’t damage their thumbs! My 19 year old daughter communicates nearly exclusively be text and she isn’t alienated from anyone or anything. Her thumbs work fine too.