It is true that you can kind of miss out on fully experiencing things when you're seeing them through a camera, but haven't you ever captured something that years later you watch/look at and it was totally worth it?
Maybe it reminds you of something you wouldn't have been able to remember as clearly.
It can also allow you to look at the same thing when you are older, and you see it in a different way.
I guess the key is to not have too much of a good thing.
[QUOTE=CountChocula651;41948008]It's reason like this that I'm glad I only own a pay as you go tracfone that's only capable of basic texting and calling.[/QUOTE]
I have one of those from when I went to Florida. Though, I somehow still racked up a good data bill from being down there, Canadian cellphone prices are brutal.
[editline]24th August 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=GeeOhDee;41955488]It is true that you can kind of miss out on fully experiencing things when you're seeing them through a camera, but haven't you ever captured something that years later you watch/look at and it was totally worth it?
Maybe it reminds you of something you wouldn't have been able to remember as clearly.
It can also allow you to look at the same thing when you are older, and you see it in a different way.
I guess the key is to not have too much of a good thing.[/QUOTE]
You could always just aim the camera and then look up with your eyes, maybe give the occasional glance to be sure you haven't drifted your aim...
[QUOTE=froztshock;41951733]I've never understood the whole "Take a picture of everything" culture as a whole. It's not cellphones so much as small portable cameras that started it, but it just annoys me so much. Why do people want to break the flow of whatever they're doing to get a picture of something or themselves every twenty minutes? Aren't the memories good enough? Maybe I'm just bitter because I hate posing for group photos.
The only time I ever feel like taking pictures is when I see something out of the ordinary or need to remember a specific set of instructions. I realized sometime during my junior year of highschool that my phone was full of pictures of homework assignments and weird bugs.[/QUOTE]
That's the thing though, people take pictures of things they find interesting too, as in you take pictures of weird bugs, others like taking pictures of their friends, some people are interested in different foods, some in buildings.. to each their own.
And no, memories are usually not enough, that's why we've had photo albums of our memories for the past hundred years or so.
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And why would you record your birthday? No one gives a shit but you and the people that are already present to witness it firsthand.
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You record your birthdays so 20 years down the line you can look back at the memories and shed a tear or two.
Why is it that as soon as I go on the internet, everybody starts berating on about people playing with their phones in social environments and people think it is now hip to have a dinosaur phone?
Personally, I don't come across any of these problems ever when I'm with friends.
I have a shit phone that can take really bad video, pics and text, but I have both types of friends who will respond to a text even if anyone is in a conversation with them, and other friends who won't even check their phone around us unless they have to.
Easy solution for dinner/cafe/whatever, everyone stacks their phone on top of each others in the middle of the table, who ever touches their phone (unless someone calls) has to pay for everyone else's meals. I do it all the time.
Does this actually happen?
[QUOTE=Francisco;41944281]Phones are an easy sample of how away from reality we could be on the generations to come[/QUOTE]
Says the person who probably spends all day on the computer lol.
I don't have this problem, because I keep my phone at 20% battery at all time, so I can only use if for necessity. (and also im a lazy fuck who forgets to charge it)
Most of my friends don't have smart phones anyway. I'm the only friend with an iPhone.
all i see in this video is Appletards
that's why i still own a nokia 5800
[QUOTE=Titusmcgee;41948146]Cool being poor, eh?[/QUOTE]Id rather be poor than be a stuck up prick.
[QUOTE=Killer900;41960264]Id rather be poor than be a stuck up prick.[/QUOTE]
not every rich/middle-class person is stuck up
Whenever I'm out my phone is mostly in my pocket, if I take it out its because there's no conversation or nothings going on.
When I'm at my friends house we have a policy that all phones stay on the counter, also in public I don't see a lot of people on their phones unless they are eating or sitting down by themselves/waiting for someone.
[editline]25th August 2013[/editline]
But this video is quite silly because I have no clue what happens in America but I can certainly say the only time I see everyone face down on their phones is either on the bus or train and I'm equally as responsible for that
It's easy to get like this when you first get a smartphone
I think its pretty important to realize when you start doing what the video shows so you can avoid doing it in the future. Especially since most of the time nobody is going to give more than a slight shit about random pictures you take of BS
I'm a new smartphone user and sometimes I can get like this but I love having it around because its extremely useful as a tool, it helps kill time during periods where I'm just waiting on something, etc. I hate having it around when I use it in front of other people.
And taking pictures with your phone is fun but the best time/place to take your pictures is when you are on your own or doing it in between things, or doing an official "photoshoot" moment rather than taking breaks in the middle of doing something for a quirky picture.
[editline]25th August 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=CountChocula651;41948008]It's reason like this that I'm glad I only own a pay as you go tracfone that's only capable of basic texting and calling.[/QUOTE]
Tracfones are awesome, stupid cheap phone.
I got a smartphone from a tracfone because there was a reasonably priced plan ($30/mo for unlimited data/text) from Tmobile that made owning a smartphone not so damn expensive, and because I wanted the utility out of it.
I don't like using my phone a ton out in public because it makes me feel like a complete tool if thats all I'm doing is being on my phone out and about, but for quick little checkups and stuff between things its great.
I [i]wish[/i] I forgot my phone. I don't even want one and I get condemned if I don't have one.
There are pros and cons. However, people usually go with the cons. They rather text someone than talk to someone. They rather use text, than to type out actual words. Because it's become so simplified, and easy. I went out to eat dinner with my sister and mother, they both have phones. They were texting away, all while eating and stuffing their face. I look over to another table, texting.
Another table, texters.
It's really scary when social events are taken with cameras, than your own experience. Don't get me wrong, a camera can let you re-live precious moments if you forget them, and feel down. But nothing will overpower the mind, and what it's capable of capturing in your memories.
[QUOTE=SatansSin;41964660]There are pros and cons. However, people usually go with the cons. They rather text someone than talk to someone. They rather use text, than to type out actual words. Because it's become so simplified, and easy. I went out to eat dinner with my sister and mother, they both have phones. They were texting away, all while eating and stuffing their face. I look over to another table, texting.
Another table, texters.
It's really scary when social events are taken with cameras, than your own experience. Don't get me wrong, a camera can let you re-live precious moments if you forget them, and feel down. But nothing will overpower the mind, and what it's capable of capturing in your memories.[/QUOTE]
See, I have a smart phone, but I would WAY rather call someone than text someone. You can get way more information across, and it makes what you're saying to the person much more important.
For instance, when I was shopping for a car, my dad knew someone who was selling, and I asked him to contact this guy. Two weeks later, I find out he just texted him and the guy said "I'm busy, I will call you later". It was like pulling teeth to get my dad to call this guy, and then when he does, it turns out the guy forgot all about us, and didn't want to sell the car because a homeless guy took a shit in the back seat a few days earlier.
What the hell, people seriously need "policies" and shit to not use their phones at social gatherings?
[QUOTE=Killer900;41960264]Id rather be poor than be a stuck up prick.[/QUOTE]
I wouldn't, but you know, whatever makes you feel better.
[QUOTE=itisjuly;41965291]What the hell, people seriously need "policies" and shit to not use their phones at social gatherings?[/QUOTE]
No, policies are just another way for rules and it makes sense, you don't need to bring your phone out when your around a bonfire it's just for us to know where to put it
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