by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Watch this, ignore than, pay a flat rate. Just like my mother\u2014talk 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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,286,84,10],"tags":[173,287,201,133],"class_list":["post-4046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choose","category-conversation","category-internet","category-people","tag-choose","tag-conversation","tag-internet","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4047,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046\/revisions\/4047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}