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12-07-2013 #1
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The little screen. Are we obsessed?
Has communication technologies brought us human closer to each others, or is it having, actually, the opposite effect?
Is the tiny screen we constantly put ourselves in front of, some new form of a mirror, to satisfy the needs of our ego, or a real device connecting us to the world?
When we use the net, are we trying to really connect with each other, or is it rather simply a new way to divert ourselves, after the nickel odeons, the radio and the tv eras, by allowing us to choose among an infinite diversity what correspond to who we are?
Here is a funny page I fell on.
http://www.viralnova.com/society-crumbling/
This May Look Innocent, But It’s Very Wrong. In Fact, It’s Probably Much Worse Than You Think.
December 4, 2013Entertainment
Not to sound like a disgruntled extra on the set of Grumpy Old Men, but young people nowadays are focused on one thing and one thing only: technology. More specifically? The tiny screen that they carry and center their lives around. Sure, it’s necessary to check your email and answer calls from your mother (please talk to your mother), but doing any of this is totally unnecessary:
1. These women enjoying a girls night out
2. Two young lovers, going on their very first date
3. This group of high school seniors, enjoying their last day of school before graduation.
4. These boys, enjoying watching their favorite team
6. This heartwarming Thanksgiving dinner
9. This close-knit group celebrating a friend’s engagement
18. These siblings reuniting for the first time in years
19. A group of girls spending quality time together
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12-07-2013 #2
Re: The little screen. Are we obsessed?
I sure as hell isn't.
(Sent from my iPhone)
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12-07-2013 #3
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Re: The little screen. Are we obsessed?
Lol!
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12-07-2013 #4
Re: The little screen. Are we obsessed?
That 1st pic reminded me a few years back was having lunch and looked over at another table and there were 4 people waiting on their orders and all 4 were on the phone...I ask my friend if he reckoned they were talking to each other.....
it is absolutely out of control....
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12-07-2013 #5
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Re: The little screen. Are we obsessed?
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12-07-2013 #6
Re: The little screen. Are we obsessed?
Can't agree with you more, Dan.
I surely find it soooooooo rude when you are having a social gathering or having a meal or so and some people are on their phone. I usually ask if I am boring them (I probably am..LOL)
I have also been labelled as a grumpy old man!
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12-07-2013 #7
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Re: The little screen. Are we obsessed?
WE ARE THE BORG. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.
Indeed, from current trends it would seem the human race is voluntarily evolving into the Borg. We crave constant communication. We text each other in classrooms, theaters, bus shelters and coffee shops, in groups, pods, flocks and singly...always singly. It seems that...... young people nowadays are focused on one thing and one thing only: technology.
2 out of 2 members liked this post.Last edited by trish; 12-07-2013 at 04:56 PM.
"...I no longer believe that people's secrets are defined and communicable, or their feelings full-blown and easy to recognize."_Alice Munro, Chaddeleys and Flemings.
"...the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way". _Judge Holden, Cormac McCarthy's, BLOOD MERIDIAN.
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12-07-2013 #8
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Re: The little screen. Are we obsessed?
Another thing that bugs me is every time I see crowd at a concert all holding up their cell phones to record, shoot a few minutes to prove you were there and then rock out. It especially bugs me when I see it on the Jimmy Kimmel Show performances when people know that Kimmel is already recording the show in HD for your future benefit.
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12-07-2013 #9
Re: The little screen. Are we obsessed?
It used to be concert fans would hold up lighters at shows as a kind of unified solidarity for the group on stage to see.
Can you see all those smart phones from the stage???
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12-07-2013 #10
Re: The little screen. Are we obsessed?
After the first round of messages (U text me I respond) I'm like stop fucking texting me. If you have something worth telling me, call me. Otherwise stop blowing up my phone with one fucking text after another and another...
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