Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

There was a time when a local phone call was special. Today, we have social media. Same thing, but we tend to use it differently. We don’t have to.

Many years ago there was such a thing as a long-distance phone call and a local phone call. The long-distance call was charged by the minute. Talk an hour? Not on long distance! An hour cost ten times as much as a six-minute call.

The local phone call was different. That was paid on a “flat rate.” The monthly phone bill was set, and you could talk on a local call all you wanted. An hour cost the same as six minutes. My mother loved to talk with a few people for long periods of time. It was a local phone call, flat rate, good stuff.

And now we have social media. Flat rate. My Internet service bill is the same regardless of how long I am on XFaceTokTube or whatever. Reading about high school buddies a thousand miles away is on a flat rate. Reading about activities just around the corner is on a flat rate.

Watch this, ignore than, pay a flat rate. Just like my mother—talk for a long period of time with only a few persons. On XFaceTokTube, look at my buddies and ignore the rest. I never read ads on any of these places. I don’t read stuff about Hillary Clinton’s alien baby or how the Russians are the most brilliant advertisers in history.