Tom Hanks Quotes

I have never sent a fax, and I've never even sent a text message.

I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell phone, a regular e-mail account, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, and a Web site. Some of them also have a Google Voice number. There are the sentimental few who still have fax machines.

I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?'

I had no idea that social networking would be as prominent as it is today. And it's important to understand what that phenomenon is. If you text someone, you get an immediate response; if you e-mail them, you probably never hear from them.

I don't believe in e-mail. I rarely use a cell phone and I don't have a fax.

I don't use e-mail or u-mail or whatever it's called.

I don't do Twitter, Facebook; none of that. My email I do from my Blackberry or my iPhone.

You should have mechanisms of communication, like faxes, which are obviously getting removed from offices because nobody uses them anymore. Faxes are great when e-mail doesn't work. I wouldn't be throwing them away.

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

Mail is quick. Telegraph is quicker. Telephone is instantaneous.

What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.

I actually get very little phone calls. I get way more tweets and texts. My phone rarely rings.

People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When you are in the humor, you should take a peep at some of the letters written by people who lived long ago.

Things like email, and Twitter, and Facebook, and text messaging - they all work reasonably well. But we use them because they're convenient, and cheap, and easy, not because they're the best way to communicate with somebody.

People respond faster to you on a text than an e-mail. Why is that? Why will they ignore an e-mail, but get back to a text?

I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.

All of the people who are using their BlackBerries or their iPhones, Facebook, all of the people who are sitting in cafes and hotels rooms doing their work, they're all using wireless technology, and we shouldn't assume that the only way of the future is high speed cable.

Email is the lowest common denominator. It's the way you get communications from one person to another. There isn't really an alternative. Sometimes people will have Facebook messenger turned on, but 99 percent of the time, if you're sending a message to a human you don't know well, you're using email.

Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.

E-mails, phone calls, Web sites, videos. They're still all letters, basically, and they've come to outnumber old-fashioned conversations. They are the conversation now.

Very few people use landline phones for much of anything. So when you talk about things like online chat and social media messages and emails, what you're really talking about is the full extent of human communication.

Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor.

Our cellphones can do everything, but they're bad at letting us talk to each other.

I don't want no mail. Send me a Facebook message.

I love text, I love email, I love Skype; I think it's amazing.