Can We Auto-Correct Humanity(WARNING: CONTAINS MASS AMOUNTS OF PRETENTIOUSNESS)
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[QUOTE=sirdownloadsalot;46149045]Do you have friends that don't like each other or something? I dunno, I've never faced this problem. You get together in a room with friends and the phones the last thing you think of, only really looking at it if you got a message or if you want to snapchat something dumb that happened for laughs.
People still go around with their friends plenty. I don't believe it's a problem with phones and technology, some people are just more introverted then others. Decades ago, there were also people who just preferred to stay inside and read or listen to their favorite radio drama then go outside and deal with people. Humans behave the same as they always have, just the medium of our technology has changed.[/QUOTE]
nope, but we all have pretty active social media accounts, so they pay a lot of attention to their phones
i'm not saying it's a problem in general, but there are a lot of people who put their internet friends / followers before their real life friends, honestly it's more of a pet peeve than a problem
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believe me i hate being somewhere that's boring and has no wifi, but i guess i'm not as dependent on social networks as some people
it's one of the main reasons i bought an ipod touch instead of an iphone (along with being broke as fuck)
I'm so sick of hearing how social networks and cell phones make us less social. They are used to communicate with our friends when we are not physically in the same place.
Yes, truly we live in an awful time where we no longer have to associate ourselves with the people who live near us, with whom we may share no particular interests and might not even like, and now we can choose exactly whom, when and where we talk to people! Oh, woe is humanity.
[editline]4th October 2014[/editline]
Let us go back to the time where insomniacs had nobody to talk to because they were stuck in their house and everybody else was asleep. Truly a more enlightened age.
This video takes itself a bit too seriously and tries (and fails) to guilt trip everyone into thinking that using their phone is an anti-social activity which is ludicrous. A phone is mostly a necessity in this country, we need it for banking, for car insurance, for many useful things and most importantly friends/family whom we all love to talk to.
In a nutshell, this video is full of bullshit.
[QUOTE=Chubbles;46149402]I agree with you completely. And as much as everyone is disagreeing with my previous statements and giving me dumb ratings, it may not be necessarily relevant in some places, but I know especially here where I live and a lot of places in America, I've had these issues with people. Especially my ex, whom on every date or outing, she'd be constantly snapchatting or instagramming. It gets frustrating.
[editline]4th October 2014[/editline]
I'm the farthest thing from anti-technology. I think it has TONS of benefits in society, and I support it completely, but there are a lot of social aspects that have gone askew with the burst in social media these past couple years.[/QUOTE]
that's one thing that does piss me off to be fair, but that's not the phone's fault, that's just your friend/significant other being a cunt.
if you're trying to have a conversation with somebody and they sort of trail off before going on their phone, it's not really that technology has brought them to anti-social tendencies, rather, it's the person not having any interest in conversation and finds their phone a good excuse not to bother.
to be fair, however, there is the pretty obvious fact of the matter in that without your phone you'd be forced to converse with strangers around you. which can be neat and better for society i suppose, but before phones and that you have to realize that to avoid such things the newspaper was the goto "i don't want to deal with your shit" method.
if driving wasn't more expensive/harmful to the environment than taking the bus to work in the morning, i'm sure most people would choose to drive alone or with friends. we like privacy as humans. it isn't a bad thing.
[editline]4th October 2014[/editline]
sidenote: phones are awesome for getting shit done but on an interpersonal level they're fucking annoying
my dad has to check his phone pretty consistently and keep in touch via email all the goddamn time, and he really has no choice in the matter. he's held accountable for making sure any emails he receives off the clock are squared away pretty quickly.
[QUOTE=LieutenantLeo;46148444][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7dLU6fk9QY[/media]
shitty rip off of this?[/QUOTE]
More of this one: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAx845QaOck[/media]
I actually liked the video! I myself quit Facebook about 9 months ago and I immediately felt the consequences. While I would describe myself as an extremly extrovert and open minded person who heavily relies on social interaction with people I still feel like an outsider. People would never admit it but they are approaching me differently when I tell 'em that I don't have a Facebook account, many people actually find it anti social of me.
I mean, sure, I know that Facebook is quite comfortable to stay in touch but is it too much to ask to socialize through real interaction or atleast Skype or a telephone call?
I don't know how this guy thinks people acted in the past. Phones and social media have helped people stay in touch, in the past you just went home and sat on your own if you didn't have a family, at least now you can talk to people when you don't have the time to see them in person.
This is just another one of them "those darn kids and their phones and their facebook, back in my day..." types.
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;46151106]I don't know how this guy thinks people acted in the past. Phones and social media have helped people stay in touch, in the past you just went home and sat on your own if you didn't have a family, at least now you can talk to people when you don't have the time to see them in person.[/QUOTE]
You're right. The nature of communication changed and it's perfectly fine of us to adapt those new skills BUT you all can speak from your own experience. When you go out with a group at least half of them have an attention span of a gold fish because they have their phones at the tip of their fingers. It's not the way we communicate but the frequency of scrolling and liking and updating while interacting with real life persons. The border between real life and virtual interaction gets a little bit blurry. Also it's fucking disrespectful! I'm just saying that I'm a little bit afraid that people will get sucked into their virtual account that they're getting more and more selfish.
Also, always remember: Your profile is what you WANT to be, not who you actually are. There are just perfect and funny and well suited situations on your profile, never your flaws, your sorrow or your imperfections. It's only partially real.
[QUOTE=TedStriker;46151140]You're right. The nature of communication changed and it's perfectly fine of us to adapt those new skills BUT you all can speak from your own experience. When you go out with a group at least half of them have an attention span of a gold fish because they have their phones at the tip of their fingers. It's not the way we communicate but the frequency of scrolling and liking and updating while interacting with real life persons. The border between real life and virtual interaction gets a little bit blurry.[/QUOTE]
Yeah but if it wasn't for phones and facebook I'd have been totally cut off from people and would have no way of organising stuff with friends. Yes sometimes you get that tit who won't get off his phone and you want to slap it out of his hand, but that's a minor nuisance in comparison to the benefits really.
Before Facebook, we rang people. Before then, we sent telegraphs. Before that, letters. Before that... Anyone who lived far enough away that you couldn't talk to them was probably somebody against whom you were fighting a war, so I guess it didn't matter.
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;46151173]Yeah but if it wasn't for phones and facebook I'd have been totally cut off from people and would have no way of organising stuff with friends. Yes sometimes you get that tit who won't get off his phone and you want to slap it out of his hand, but that's a minor nuisance in comparison to the benefits really.[/QUOTE]
Sure it's very comfortable. I would never deny that! I'm not blaming the Technology, I would never do that. It ALWAYS depends on the people and HOW they are using it.
How can we spend 4 years of our lives looking at phones when cheap phones are only 10 years old and smart phones younger than that?
he looks like the combination of Tupac and a Starbucks hipster
his poem was so edgy he pierced and destroyed his own morals about technology usage
I think technology has only broken even more barriers in terms of actual social interaction.
So no thanks. I prefer talking to the only friends I have at the moment.
It is ridiculous when you're around friends and all they do is sit on their phones but this video is ridiculously exaggerated.
Also this YouTube comment
[quote]Nobody gives a flying pygmy fuck for your mindless fucking niggerbabble, nigger.
The real issue, nigger, one clearly obvious to every White Human, is you are pathologically jealous of Humans who own technically advanced communication devices. So you stole one off a Human and now you are just as friendless as you were last week, nobody likes you, not even your disease infested old crack whore mammy and you still can't work out how to use that raysiss k\muhfuggin YT phone.•[/quote]
[QUOTE=Robber;46150639]I'm so sick of hearing how social networks and cell phones make us less social. They are used to communicate with our friends when we are not physically in the same place.[/QUOTE]
phones and networks are the polar opposite of "Anti-social"
[editline]4th October 2014[/editline]
when you can't stop using them, you're basically OVER social
xkcd is always relevant
[url]http://xkcd.com/1227/[/url]
I really wish he would fix his collar; It's a polo shirt, not a turtleneck.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/gL0ZUdA.jpg[/IMG]
I liked this video don't know what all the hate is about to be honest...
I'm fucking tired of so many people packaging this same basic thing with some pretentious sheen, like they're geniuses for figuring it out.
Obviously technology makes you rely less on others. There's nothing wrong with that, but it sure scares slow-minded luddites who don't want to deal with the marginal discomfort of change.
Honestly there should be a rule that whatever point you try to argue is invalidated if you're wearing a popped polo collar. Sort yourself out lad.
You guys put waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much trust in technology and don't scrutinize enough. Great, you can't talk to someone from the other side of the world but how does that help when you need help in your own local sphere? How does that in fact help you with communicating face to face with someone else? When you can talk to a passing stranger but can't actually understand the tone or context of what they're saying, its empty. Technology has made it easier for us to connect, but its also made it easier for us to disconnect from those we don't like. So many box themselves into chambers where only their opinion matters and they don't get anyone to challenge them. What's even better is that these social networks don't last, they never do last because they're fads. Nothing more than passing fancies as we seek out the next big thing to coddle our postulates. Ya'll might say voice chat but most don't use that. And even then its with a group that you agree with. Discussion is dead as it just boils down to 140 character hard hard facts. Whether those facts are real never get checked on by the side you're supporting. The internet has brought us closer together so we can argue and belittle each other easier. Some of us use it to bridge gaps, but most of us just use it to avoid traps.
(I didn't intentionally rhyme anything looking back)
This is not to say the internet is bad, inter connectivity allows us to understand and grow with cultures we might not have ever seen before. It allows greater understanding and large volume of information to be at our fingertips to vouch for hard facts and myths. Data and information is shared faster and we can understand or at least gain a knowledge of better understanding about all this.
These are massive pluses and they outweight heavily on the negatives but we should do everything we can to combat and study the negatives.
[QUOTE=Swilly;46158644]You guys put waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much trust in technology and don't scrutinize enough. Great, you can't talk to someone from the other side of the world but how does that help when you need help in your own local sphere? How does that in fact help you with communicating face to face with someone else? When you can talk to a passing stranger but can't actually understand the tone or context of what they're saying, its empty. Technology has made it easier for us to connect, but its also made it easier for us to disconnect from those we don't like. So many box themselves into chambers where only their opinion matters and they don't get anyone to challenge them. What's even better is that these social networks don't last, they never do last because they're fads. Nothing more than passing fancies as we seek out the next big thing to coddle our postulates. Ya'll might say voice chat but most don't use that. And even then its with a group that you agree with. Discussion is dead as it just boils down to 140 character hard hard facts. Whether those facts are real never get checked on by the side you're supporting. The internet has brought us closer together so we can argue and belittle each other easier. Some of us use it to bridge gaps, but most of us just use it to avoid traps.[/QUOTE]
If you're using social media to run away from your problems in real life, then there's a bigger issue at hand, and it's not at fault of the technology. Social media speaks volumes about your character and who you are. Employers don't just look at your Facebook, Twitter, or other accounts for giggles. It tells them what to expect of you in person and how you act outside of the workplace. Social media networks even act as hubs for a large array of different movements ranging from religious, to social, to political, and more.
So no, I would have to disagree. If people are secluding themselves from others, then it's not social media's fault and using it as a scapegoat isn't going to fix anything.
id agree more if he work that fucking polo like a normal human being
[QUOTE=WitheredGryphon;46161117]If you're using social media to run away from your problems in real life, then there's a bigger issue at hand, and it's not at fault of the technology. Social media speaks volumes about your character and who you are. Employers don't just look at your Facebook, Twitter, or other accounts for giggles. It tells them what to expect of you in person and how you act outside of the workplace. Social media networks even act as hubs for a large array of different movements ranging from religious, to social, to political, and more.
So no, I would have to disagree. If people are secluding themselves from others, then it's not social media's fault and using it as a scapegoat isn't going to fix anything.[/QUOTE]
And you missed the bottom portion, thanks.
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