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| Thread ID: 125698 | 2012-07-13 15:43:00 | One Is The Lonliest Number | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 1288302 | 2012-07-13 15:43:00 | I see it all the time . People standing next to each other, thumbs a-blur, texting to the person standing along side of them . Then I also see paragraphs posted on sites that are 400 words long, no periods, commas or capitalization and homonyms confused and misapplied . To, too, two, tu . There, their, they're, thair, thare . But loneliness is a new idea::: We may have 700 friends on Facebook but do we have the ability or want to maintain a sustained real-life conversation with them? Can we pay attention to the eulogy at a funeral, when our mobile phone is buzzing silently in our pockets? The rise of mobile technology is increasingly turning us into an ‘always on’ and ‘always elsewhere’ culture . And this change has profound consequences for the very thing that motivated the innovation in technology in the first place: Connecting with others . In fact this cultural shift may destroy the very thing we seek most in our lives . We are inherently social creatures, after all . LINK: . smartplanet . com/blog/thinking-tech/q-a-why-our-digital-devices-are-making-us-lonelier-than-ever/12294?tag=nl . e662" target="_blank">www . smartplanet . com Not even mentioning the run-on sentences above and ONE BIG PARAGRAPH; it just stupefies . MORE::: <snip> More and more people are willing to sacrifice conversation for mere connection . They shortchange themselves . Worse, they begin to not see the difference . Additionally, constant connectivity makes us three seductive promises: One, that we will always be heard, two, that we can put our attention wherever we want it to be, and third, that we never have to be alone . Get ye back to cursive, people! |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1288303 | 2012-07-13 22:57:00 | Oh there's plenty of cursive in txts, it might be misspelled but there is a thriving cursive culture. (Listen to any carpenter having a discussion with his hammer, stripped of the cursives the discourse would be a brief and empty thing.) | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1288304 | 2012-07-13 23:28:00 | "Standing next to each other, texting?" Methinks that is a bit of an exaggeration :( :( |
Zippity (58) | ||
| 1288305 | 2012-07-13 23:33:00 | 700 friends? I have just over 200 and need to clean mine out... | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1288306 | 2012-07-13 23:56:00 | My wife and I recently went to the Sir Ian McKellen show at the Opera House in Wellington. We were seated in the Gallery. At interval, when we looked down into the stalls, it was a sea of glowing smart phone screens - we were both staggered by how many there were, and how many people felt it was absolutely necessary to fire up their phones and ?do what? during the interval. They just couldn't wait until after the show was over. Time was when you received a letter, you waited a decent interval before writing a reply. It was bad form to write back straight away in those days. Thus, correspondence seemed to have a measured pace about it. Now I feel an obligation to reply straight away to an email or text. Humph. I am trying to resist. |
John H (8) | ||
| 1288307 | 2012-07-14 01:35:00 | SWMBO and I went to a concert a couple of years ago at the Church Rd Winery here in Napier. It was the 5 tenors if I remember rightly? 5 minutes into the show, after a request to turn all phones off, one rang in the front row. Security moved in and proceeded to eject the miscreant, when the leader of the singers said " Stop, bring him up here as I wish him to apologise" He was then given a bollocking about the phone and challenged to try singing to see how hard it was to perform in front of a huge audience. If he made a good fist of it he may be allowed to stay depending on the audience's opinion. To cut a long story short, he was actually one of the group, sang beautifully, bought the house to much hillarity, and the concert went like a dream. A wonderful evening. Ken :thumbs: |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1288308 | 2012-07-14 02:01:00 | "Standing next to each other, texting?" Methinks that is a bit of an exaggeration :( :( No its not kids do it all the time I have seen dozens of them around town texting each other. This whole social networking thing should really be called anti social networking. If I want to talk to my friends I either visit them or phone them |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1288309 | 2012-07-14 02:11:00 | Anybody tried talking in text talk ? :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1288310 | 2012-07-14 02:32:00 | "Standing next to each other, texting?" Methinks that is a bit of an exaggeration :( :( Sadly no. |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1288311 | 2012-07-14 03:43:00 | I've seen people on dates at a restaurant, texting each other as they sit at the same table. | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
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