Methods of communication

[beowabbit]

Once upon a time, email was the best and almost only way I communicated with anybody. This was before mobile phones were common and before spam existed, during and shortly after college. Most of my friends preferred email, too, and I got out of the habit of using the phone. But email seems not to be as overwhelmingly good a communication medium these days, for a number of reasons. So I’m realizing I no longer know the best ways to contact my friends, and I thought I’d fix that.

Behind the cut is a poll asking you how you do and don’t like to be contacted. I’d be very grateful if my friends would fill out the poll. (If you don’t want to fill out the poll or you don’t have a LiveJournal account, feel free to send me email telling me how you prefer to be contacted.)

Because it occurred to me that this would be just as useful for other people as for me, the poll results are publically visible. However, I have not asked for any actual contact information (phone numbers, IRC networks/channels, etc.). I’ll ask for them in a separate poll whose results are only visible to me (and of course you don’t need to respond if you’re certain I have your contact information.)

This is kind of long, but you should feel free not to answer all the questions; if you just answer the first couple, or the couple about being contacted to make plans, that’s still more information than I have now. (If you’d like to post this poll, or a subset of it, in your own journal, I’d be happy to mail you the LJ HTML.) [Poll #278436]