emails, twitter, facebook on your hols.....

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howardh

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Ignore them?
Have a little look now and again?
Look two or three times a day?
Every 5 minutes??
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I'm into category 2; log in to emails once every 2 days just to check the old folk are OK and that my flight hasn't changed. A holiday for me is not being tied to a keyboard or phone! Love to ignore them completely.

Remember the days of the early 70's when the only contact with home was (a) a letter arriving a week later (b) a phone call costing a ton, had to be put through by an operator who didn't speek de engrish, and the sound was so faint the reciever could have been on Mars, (c) an emergency broadcast on radio 4 - providing you could get through (b); and (d) BBC World Service, which was only of any use if the world closed.

Instant communication on holiday - necessary evil, total boon or horrible imposition??
 
I'm always on call, and I have to check emails a couple of times a day.

In the past, I've even sent out a press release from an Internet cafe in Playa den Bossa!
(while the missus was left to finish lunch alone at a cafe around the corner... she was not impressed :lol:)

I remember once giving comment on a big biz deal to the press while in a lion park in South Africa :lol:
I'd just received the press release by email on my cell phone so I'd know what I was talking about.

I only started using Twitter this year but can't imagine looking at it while on vacation.

Facebook, on the other hand, is such an integral part of how I keep in touch with people that I still check it from time to time.
 
As my pay £3.00 a day for internet etc on my phone on hols then it is there to use.

If the phone buzzes to notify me of an email then I will look at it.

Also download http://touchnote.com/ to my phone.

Lets you send postcards, so whilst sat watching the sunset at Benirras you can take a quick photo and send it from there for the same cost hunting for a stamp and a decent postcard.

As for posting on Facebook. It's nice to be able to send a cheeky 'wish you were here' with a photo of you and your Mojito at 2.00pm whilst they are working!
 
Facebook for showing off.

Emails/calls for work. But then I invoice for full weeks when I'm away - I wouldn't dream of taking work away otherwise.
 
Johnny Vodka said:
Ignore internet altogether. 8)
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I don't mind the internet for weather, party info etc, but try to leave my phone in the safe during the day. Its going off all the time at work, plus a work mobile as well so I need a welcome break.
 
dont bother with em at all, come on holiday to go on facebook is sad in my eyes...as for emails, i'll have all that bull**** to deal with when i get back!:lol:

i dont even bother wearing a watch or take a phone out when im on holiday, no need for it!8)
 
deepseadiver said:
I don't mind the internet for weather, party info etc, but try to leave my phone in the safe during the day. Its going off all the time at work, plus a work mobile as well so I need a welcome break.
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BEEFA1 said:
dont bother with em at all, come on holiday to go on facebook is sad in my eyes...as for emails, i'll have all that bull**** to deal with when i get back!:lol:

i dont even bother wearing a watch or take a phone out when im on holiday, no need for it!8)
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Have to admit the internet comes in very useful for the weather - I go to Ibizmentera in May/June and Sept/Oct when the weather can be iffy, so a quick look at www.sat24.com can give you a heads-up on where it's cloudy and likely to break first. Don't take a laptop, just 50c in the hotel slot does the job. I agree that if all you can do on holiday is go on facebook telling them you're on holiday is uber sad. They can't get in touch or a reply from you for two weeks, der....can't they get you might be in a bar on Salinas looking at some gorgeous topless totty and a few girls as well???????
 
When i go without the wife she will often try to contact me from the uk asking me what gas mark to put the pizza in at.
 
I took my ipad and phone this time around, ipad purely for the amount of music i had on there which we used during the day and as we were getting ready for nights out.

phone as i needed to keep in contact with my brother and a few friends who were working in Ibiza, didnt have a phone so fb was their way of contacting me.
 
I'll be taking my playbook with me, trying to decide which films to chuck on it to watch on the plane. Free wifi at the hotel too, so'll be checking spotlight to see who's up to what.
 
Internet is a must while on holiday in Ibiza. To start with you want to do the odd Facebook checkin :) but more importantly I check spotlight daily just incase there are any parties that weren't advertised before I left, circo loco line ups and set times, cocoon or any other after parties. I don't do status updates, dont use twitter and don't need emails but I don't see anything wrong if your sunbathing by the pool in tweeting or whatever
 
Jojo.Xx said:
Internet is a must while on holiday in Ibiza. To start with you want to do the odd Facebook checkin :) but more importantly I check spotlight daily just incase there are any parties that weren't advertised before I left, circo loco line ups and set times, cocoon or any other after parties. I don't do status updates, dont use twitter and don't need emails but I don't see anything wrong if your sunbathing by the pool in tweeting or whatever
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Have you ever checked in at a club or uploaded a pic from dc10? :)
 
deepseadiver said:
When i go without the wife she will often try to contact me from the uk asking me what gas mark to put the pizza in at.
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:lol: ... on my last trip I was called up and told to pay a BT phone bill ... which wasn't overdue but seems the internet wasn't working and the caller was convinced this was the reason :!:
 
Only a fb status to rub it in as to where i am in the world ;) and also just check up on my little sister, to make sure there are no dramas in her life that the big sis should know about, then its log off and log out from the internet world 8) and enjoy my hols :D
 
xxVic-zeexx said:
Only a fb status to rub it in as to where i am in the world ;) and also just check up on my little sister, to make sure there are no dramas in her life that the big sis should know about, then its log off and log out from the internet world 8) and enjoy my hols :D
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I think many of us are guilty of that (rubbing it in...not checking up on your sister! LOL), me included. But I have an acquaintance who returned from a trip to Ibiza recently , they spent approximately 48 hrs on the island, in that time they put 11 posts on Facebook and 10 tweets. You have to ask yourself ..why?
 
kimajy said:
:lol: ... on my last trip I was called up and told to pay a BT phone bill ... which wasn't overdue but seems the internet wasn't working and the caller was convinced this was the reason :!:
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At least you could have paid it on the internet if it had been overdue:)
 
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