Farika B Redux
@FarikaB_Redux · 4:44
The Hangup: What happened to the "Click" option on a phone and how can we bring it back?
You've resolved that I missed this one fundamental thing, the click. That's CL I-C-K as in landline, as in how you used to hang up on people and they got the point that the conversation was over. I'm Gen X and I'm sure even older millennial can relate to the landline favorite of the hangup, the click. I think that fundamentally it is something that we need to reinstate
Farika B Redux
@FarikaB_Redux · 0:28
What else could come from the past that we used to do back in the day that, you know, effective, that was effective? They just don't just technology altered its existence and phased it out because, you know, technology. Right. But what else could we bring back from the past that was effective, that we kind of miss you. That technology has made obsolete?
Ann-Gela Kaye
@DearAuntyAng · 1:23
You Farika. We need the click. We need the click. Now, I'm a bit of a creative, so I will hang up. I have hung up on my boyfriend, and I've been like, I'm hanging up on you now by click, because I'm a creative click. Like, we're not going no, I don't care what the iOS does. You're going to know that I'm done with this conversation, and I'm hanging up on you
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 2:10
So, yes, I'm a Gen Xer, and I say bring back the click. We need it. Some of these folks need that click. They need that click. They need to hear it. They need to feel it. They need to feel that click. Yes, they do. So I'm with you, SIS. Get a petition started. Let's get this thing going here. The cordless phone killed all of that. Slamming the phone down
Farika B Redux
@FarikaB_Redux · 2:01
It exactly like you feel my spirit, you know what I mean? It just doesn't resonate the same. I mean, I think that's why we have these kids out here with these Twitter wards and stuff like that, because they never had something slammed and hung up in their faces. If they did that, they would be like, I don't even have nothing left to say because I know if I come back, this is going to get ugly
Moe Johnson
@NeophyteSavant · 3:32
I know when I was growing up and I mentioned this all the time, we always knew a telephone number by heart. We keep telephone numbers in our head. I can actually still remember the first telephone number from when I was a kid growing up in a project. I still remember that number. I still remember my sister's telephone number. But now the average person probably don't even know five telephone numbers by heart. So I would say the ability to use our brain
Farika B Redux
@FarikaB_Redux · 2:21
And so recently I was putting her number down as emergency contact and I was like, why don't I know this number? I call her all the time, but I never call her. Technically, my phone calls her, right? Because she's on my contacts. And it's sad we don't even know our own relatives and close friends numbers by heart anymore because we have to have our phones nearby to tell us who our contacts are
Hi, Farika. I miss the click, but I don't know if I miss the click as much on the phone that you posted as I do on the rotary phone. You could slam the rotary phone down when you were mad, and it was substantial, it was heavy, and there was like a loud click. And there was some beauty in the original rotary phone that no generation of phone since then has been able to quite equate to. That that old 1970s type of phone
Farika B Redux
@FarikaB_Redux · 2:46
You're so correct. It did have to come with that handheld phone. I just found the quickest picture I could, and I figured if we're talking to a certain group of people, if certain people got on, they may not recognize the old school rotary phone, but they would definitely recognize the cordless phone. But, yeah, my favorite, too, is the handheld because those phones were heavy. I mean, think about, first of all, they had a cord
Farika B Redux
@FarikaB_Redux · 4:26
I don't know about the rotary phone itself, but the old school phone with the handle and you had the 20 foot no, actually 100 foot cord that you paraded around the house. That phone was heavy. And when you hung it up, it even left an extra ring from the slam of the phone handle hitting the base of the phone. And you knew once again, that was it. You heard that extra slam. Oh, yeah, it was a done deal
Ann-Gela Kaye
@DearAuntyAng · 1:46
So it was like just confirmed it for everybody. We done. But also, I was thinking about when those phones would ring, you would hear that thing and probably fill that thing throughout the whole house because it'll be practically, like literally ringing off the hook as we say three. You won't miss that call now with the cell phones. Oh, my God, I put my phone on silent while I'm at church or whatever in the movies and forget to turn it back on
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15