Telephone Directories - Another Printed Medium Bites the Dust

Jim Wynne

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#1
The new phone book's here!!!



Yesterday I found the new AT&T phone directory on my doorstep and immediately recognized that it wasn't as thick as it should be. This was because there were no residential listings in it--it's Yellow Pages (business listings) only.

In side there's a page that says that residential directories are no longer being distributed to everyone, but that you can get one if you ask for it, either in paper form on a CD. They also gave a URL where the residential listings may be accessed.

After thinking about it, I realized that I couldn't remember the last time I looked for a residential listing in a phone book, and that I don't need one. I also thought about a friend of mine back in the 1970s in Chicago who was police officer. He told me that a phone book (3-4" thick and heavy) was sometimes used to encourage reticent suspects to share information by hitting them over the head with it (it didn't leave a mark). Try that with a CD-ROM. :tg:
 
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mguilbert

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Re: Phone Directories--Another Printed Medium Bites the Dust

Think of it as their way of not cutting down valuable trees. :applause: Kudos to them. I agree I haven't used the phone book for residential numbers much either. I always use the net when looking for someone that needs to be served.

Matt
 

ScottK

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Re: Phone Directories--Another Printed Medium Bites the Dust

As far as I'm concerend they can stop the yellow pages too.
When I get on in my driveway it goes right into the recycling. What a waste.

There is an opt out organization which is apparantly legit...

http://www.yellowpagesgoesgreen.org/


I wonder if Steve Martin could remake that part of The Jerk in a modern context with Navin googling himself?
 

Jim Wynne

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Re: Phone Directories--Another Printed Medium Bites the Dust

I think the Yellow Pages will be with us as long as businesses are willing to pay for display ads, unfortunately.
 

Doug Tropf

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Re: Phone Directories--Another Printed Medium Bites the Dust

I wonder what the future holds for printed newpapers? I used to purchase two each day but now rarely buy one.
 
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AndreyPodenkov

#6
It is perfectly told. For a long time it is time to pass to an electronic variant. Or to sell in the form of displays with data exchange through a blue eye
 

SteelMaiden

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I must really be in the minority, because I hate to see the telephone book go by the wayside. I have two in my house and one in each of my vehicles in case I am out and something happens, or I'm waiting for one of my kids and I figure I can get some phone errands done. I don't store every phone number I have ever called in my cell phone, only the ones that I call fairly regularly and don't have memorized.

The nearest large metropolitan area newspaper quit delivering to us rednecks in the sticks. I hate getting my news from the internet and the TV only. Everything on those two mediums is geared only to gain market share, little soundbites of the most sensational only. I miss really knowing what is going on in the communities around me. I can tell you if someone got shot, or if a politician got caught with his hand in the till. Other than that, I know nothing. I think that losing the paper is a quicker decline into ignorance.
 

Stijloor

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I must really be in the minority, because I hate to see the telephone book go by the wayside. I have two in my house and one in each of my vehicles in case I am out and something happens, or I'm waiting for one of my kids and I figure I can get some phone errands done. I don't store every phone number I have ever called in my cell phone, only the ones that I call fairly regularly and don't have memorized.

The nearest large metropolitan area newspaper quit delivering to us rednecks in the sticks. I hate getting my news from the internet and the TV only. Everything on those two mediums is geared only to gain market share, little soundbites of the most sensational only. I miss really knowing what is going on in the communities around me. I can tell you if someone got shot, or if a politician got caught with his hand in the till. Other than that, I know nothing. I think that losing the paper is a quicker decline into ignorance.
There are quite a few excellent national and international news sources on the Internet. For example, I can look at The Charlotte Observer and read it too if I want. We have not given up on our newspaper because that's what my wife reads; I usually use the various sources on the 'net.

Stijloor.
 

ScottK

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#9
I still get the paper. Local news is not found readily on the internet yet.
Plus I'm a comics addict and I prefer to read them on paper after dinner - or with Sunday breakfast.
 

somashekar

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It is perfectly told. For a long time it is time to pass to an electronic variant. Or to sell in the form of displays with data exchange through a blue eye
We used to get here big decorated photo album for the wedding pictures and such celebration stuff. Gone are those days when the studio was showing and asking us which album we choose for him to deliver the prints ...
 
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