I got inspired by @Winstonalden's post late last night but was just about to go to bed so left writing this for the morning. He pointed out that he doesn't like Discord because there is just so much going on, along with security concerns, and I completely agree. Different servers, groups, rooms for different subjects within subjects and of course private messages. @Winstonalden said he might be too old and slow for it, but I am young and fast and I don't like it at all either.

I have grown to hate any and all alerts, pings, bleeps and pop-ups on my phone and computer. While I spend a lot of time on both, I want to check messages, emails, comments and calls manually, all of them. My phone is always on silent, and most of the alerts are turned off. All groups (it’s not like I’m part of many) are silenced until further notice and I will answer when and if I feel like it.

If you want to talk to me on the phone, book an appointment. I will flat out stare at my phone in distain when it rings (silently as I don’t have sounds on) if someone else other than my parents are calling. I will ignore their phonecalls only about 30% of the time, I can do that because we call each other on the daily, other phone calls go unanswered 99% of the time.

I am very sensitive to alerts and I am sometimes near murderous when people try to reach me on an inconvenient time. They can not know what is and what isn’t a good time to reach out to me, it’s not their fault, even I don’t know that in advance, I just get annoyed easily. But low and behold if no-one tries to get in touch with me for days, then I'll be sad. _{Let's blame it on being a girl, mkay?}

I really don’t like having people see when I am on/offline, it’s too much pressure. I like seeing what someone messages me, but I hate that most communication apps will notify that I have in fact seen the message, and not answer it. Left on read, we all hate it! So if I read a message, I have to answer it right away in order to not make the other person feel bad. I would just like to read the message and if it's not something urgent, reply later.

My favourite way of communicating with variety of people is Steemit. I can check comments when I want to, and nobody knows if I have read them already or not, and I can answer when I feel like it. Though I do have sort of a system of letting people know that their message has been seen; I upvote comments I have read for kind of ”hey I see you, I appreciate the comment, and will come back later.” I don’t always answer every single comment, I try to most of them, but sometimes they get lost between other comments if I have many active posts. Oh and I also have a bad habit of reading comments half asleep and then forgetting about it. I feel like there is less pressure in Steemit to answer comments or react to anything within seconds you see it.

Steemit is cutting edge technology, yet it kinda feels homey and old school too, there is not too much fluff and it keeps your attention where it should be, on the people. I've grown to love the ugly, simple design and how it makes communicating with likeminded people the main point, not some filters and emojis and gifs. While you can add those all, the default is to use actual words for communication, a lost art really.

I used to have a co-worker who always said:

I'm an analogical man in a digital world.

I would be interested in hearing your thoughts on this. Are you old school and want to take your time communicating, or are you always on top of all the messages and alerts?