Is technology taking over our lives?!?

HughFreakingDillon

my2hands said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

my2hands said:

Facebook? Lol
Twitter? Lol
Instagram? Lol
Snapchat? Lol
Alexa? You really bumped your head

I have been able to interact/meet with musicians/bands I love and admire through the advent of social media, so there's that. And also with other fans of bands that don't have message boards (see: all canadian bands)

I used to be a facebook exclusive user. I find it must be struggling to keep its users, as it is turning into myspace with all of the ads and promoted posts. it's basically scrolling through 5 ads for every post you want to see. Twitter has started doing promoted shit too, but not nearly as much as facebook. 

it's always interesting to me when someone laughs at social media when this message board is pretty much the same damn thing, and those same people spend more time on here than most do on facebook or twitter. 

Social media is a cesspool and is having a negative impact on society and people in my opinion... this place is fun for me, and is far from a cesspool

it's only a cesspool if you allow it to be. mute the people/topics you don't want to hear/read about, don't follow the negativity, and it can be incredibly useful and positive. 

it's no different than any other media. and yes, I know your opinion on that as well. 

HughFreakingDillon

oftenreading said:

my2hands said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

my2hands said:

Facebook? Lol
Twitter? Lol
Instagram? Lol
Snapchat? Lol
Alexa? You really bumped your head

I have been able to interact/meet with musicians/bands I love and admire through the advent of social media, so there's that. And also with other fans of bands that don't have message boards (see: all canadian bands)

I used to be a facebook exclusive user. I find it must be struggling to keep its users, as it is turning into myspace with all of the ads and promoted posts. it's basically scrolling through 5 ads for every post you want to see. Twitter has started doing promoted shit too, but not nearly as much as facebook. 

it's always interesting to me when someone laughs at social media when this message board is pretty much the same damn thing, and those same people spend more time on here than most do on facebook or twitter. 

Social media is a cesspool and is having a negative impact on society and people in my opinion... this place is fun for me, and is far from a cesspool

And thus, not all social media is a cesspool. 

exactly. this place actually can be, but people learn to stay away from the topics and/or posters that they want to avoid. no different than any other form of social media. 

PJ_Soul

The answer to this is obviously yes, but I can absolutely state with complete confidence that technology has also improved my life, as well as the life of many, many, many others. They ways it has improved by life are piddling - really just a matter of convenience and entertainment. But the ways it has improved the lives of some is incredibly profound.

I'm still very willing to look at all the ways it has done harm as well though. And there are a lot of ways it's done that. Sometimes profound harm.

lastexitlondon

my2hands said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

my2hands said:

Facebook? Lol
Twitter? Lol
Instagram? Lol
Snapchat? Lol
Alexa? You really bumped your head

I have been able to interact/meet with musicians/bands I love and admire through the advent of social media, so there's that. And also with other fans of bands that don't have message boards (see: all canadian bands)

I used to be a facebook exclusive user. I find it must be struggling to keep its users, as it is turning into myspace with all of the ads and promoted posts. it's basically scrolling through 5 ads for every post you want to see. Twitter has started doing promoted shit too, but not nearly as much as facebook. 

it's always interesting to me when someone laughs at social media when this message board is pretty much the same damn thing, and those same people spend more time on here than most do on facebook or twitter. 

Social media is a cesspool and is having a negative impact on society and people in my opinion... this place is fun for me, and is far from a cesspool

I do agree

brianlux

oftenreading said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

my2hands said:

Facebook? Lol
Twitter? Lol
Instagram? Lol
Snapchat? Lol
Alexa? You really bumped your head

I have been able to interact/meet with musicians/bands I love and admire through the advent of social media, so there's that. And also with other fans of bands that don't have message boards (see: all canadian bands)

I used to be a facebook exclusive user. I find it must be struggling to keep its users, as it is turning into myspace with all of the ads and promoted posts. it's basically scrolling through 5 ads for every post you want to see. Twitter has started doing promoted shit too, but not nearly as much as facebook. 

it's always interesting to me when someone laughs at social media when this message board is pretty much the same damn thing, and those same people spend more time on here than most do on facebook or twitter. 

I'm considering joining twitter, both because some of the twitter threads I've read through here have been amusing, and also because I've read that many companies give far better service when customers tweet at them compared to when they try to call or even deal with them in person (airlines, I'm looking at you). 

I tried Twitter for a while.  My experience with Twitter? 

Otto knows...

PJ_Soul

I have a Twitter account, but I very rarely open the app. Once in a while I retweet a tweet that I see in an article, and that's it. I find it hard to follow. I much prefer facebook. There is just so much more content there, and the comment sections are much easier to follow.

Meltdown99

brianlux said:

oftenreading said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

my2hands said:

Facebook? Lol
Twitter? Lol
Instagram? Lol
Snapchat? Lol
Alexa? You really bumped your head

I have been able to interact/meet with musicians/bands I love and admire through the advent of social media, so there's that. And also with other fans of bands that don't have message boards (see: all canadian bands)

I used to be a facebook exclusive user. I find it must be struggling to keep its users, as it is turning into myspace with all of the ads and promoted posts. it's basically scrolling through 5 ads for every post you want to see. Twitter has started doing promoted shit too, but not nearly as much as facebook. 

it's always interesting to me when someone laughs at social media when this message board is pretty much the same damn thing, and those same people spend more time on here than most do on facebook or twitter. 

I'm considering joining twitter, both because some of the twitter threads I've read through here have been amusing, and also because I've read that many companies give far better service when customers tweet at them compared to when they try to call or even deal with them in person (airlines, I'm looking at you). 

I tried Twitter for a while.  My experience with Twitter? 

Otto knows...

LOL.  How do you really feel? 

Meltdown99

PJ_Soul said:

I have a Twitter account, but I very rarely open the app. Once in a while I retweet a tweet that I see in an article, and that's it. I find it hard to follow. I much prefer facebook. There is just so much more content there, and the comment sections are much easier to follow.

That's all I have is Facebook.  All relatives except for a few of my high school buddies.  My friend's list is pathetic.  LOL.  My cousin has 5000 friends. that's too many names to learn...LOL

tempo_n_groove

Meltdown99 said:

PJ_Soul said:

I have a Twitter account, but I very rarely open the app. Once in a while I retweet a tweet that I see in an article, and that's it. I find it hard to follow. I much prefer facebook. There is just so much more content there, and the comment sections are much easier to follow.

That's all I have is Facebook.  All relatives except for a few of my high school buddies.  My friend's list is pathetic.  LOL.  My cousin has 5000 friends. that's too many names to learn...LOL

Measuring your "friends list" in numbers is silly.  That's myspace Tila Tequila stuff...

I have 250 and with the FB biorhythm feed I only see a dozen at a time...  Stupes...

PJ_Soul

tempo_n_groove said:

Meltdown99 said:

PJ_Soul said:

I have a Twitter account, but I very rarely open the app. Once in a while I retweet a tweet that I see in an article, and that's it. I find it hard to follow. I much prefer facebook. There is just so much more content there, and the comment sections are much easier to follow.

That's all I have is Facebook.  All relatives except for a few of my high school buddies.  My friend's list is pathetic.  LOL.  My cousin has 5000 friends. that's too many names to learn...LOL

Measuring your "friends list" in numbers is silly.  That's myspace Tila Tequila stuff...

I have 250 and with the FB biorhythm feed I only see a dozen at a time...  Stupes...

I don't even know at least half of my "friends" (and I think I don't even have 200 of them all together). I unfriended all my high school classmates long ago. Many of my FB friends are simply random people from the special interest closed groups I belong to who tend to post good stuff.

brianlux

HughFreakingDillon said:

my2hands said:

Facebook? Lol
Twitter? Lol
Instagram? Lol
Snapchat? Lol
Alexa? You really bumped your head

I have been able to interact/meet with musicians/bands I love and admire through the advent of social media, so there's that. And also with other fans of bands that don't have message boards (see: all canadian bands)

I used to be a facebook exclusive user. I find it must be struggling to keep its users, as it is turning into myspace with all of the ads and promoted posts. it's basically scrolling through 5 ads for every post you want to see. Twitter has started doing promoted shit too, but not nearly as much as facebook. 

it's always interesting to me when someone laughs at social media when this message board is pretty much the same damn thing, and those same people spend more time on here than most do on facebook or twitter. 

I actually enjoy the part about FaceBook that allows me to keep in touch with people and organizations.  What I don't like about FB is the way it tracks me, the way it tries to sell me crap, and the way it controls my feed (I have have to constantly ask it to give me latest, not what it thinks is "most relevant".  Those are the reasons I awarded FB an Otto's Endlessly Emptying Beer Can gif.

tempo_n_groove

PJ_Soul said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Meltdown99 said:

PJ_Soul said:

I have a Twitter account, but I very rarely open the app. Once in a while I retweet a tweet that I see in an article, and that's it. I find it hard to follow. I much prefer facebook. There is just so much more content there, and the comment sections are much easier to follow.

That's all I have is Facebook.  All relatives except for a few of my high school buddies.  My friend's list is pathetic.  LOL.  My cousin has 5000 friends. that's too many names to learn...LOL

Measuring your "friends list" in numbers is silly.  That's myspace Tila Tequila stuff...

I have 250 and with the FB biorhythm feed I only see a dozen at a time...  Stupes...

I don't even know at least half of my "friends" (and I think I don't even have 200 of them all together). I unfriended all my high school classmates long ago. Many of my FB friends are simply random people from the special interest closed groups I belong to who tend to post good stuff.

Yes, you've "liked" a few things I have posted.

I really should post them on here too/\...

PJ_Soul

tempo_n_groove said:

PJ_Soul said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Meltdown99 said:

PJ_Soul said:

I have a Twitter account, but I very rarely open the app. Once in a while I retweet a tweet that I see in an article, and that's it. I find it hard to follow. I much prefer facebook. There is just so much more content there, and the comment sections are much easier to follow.

That's all I have is Facebook.  All relatives except for a few of my high school buddies.  My friend's list is pathetic.  LOL.  My cousin has 5000 friends. that's too many names to learn...LOL

Measuring your "friends list" in numbers is silly.  That's myspace Tila Tequila stuff...

I have 250 and with the FB biorhythm feed I only see a dozen at a time...  Stupes...

I don't even know at least half of my "friends" (and I think I don't even have 200 of them all together). I unfriended all my high school classmates long ago. Many of my FB friends are simply random people from the special interest closed groups I belong to who tend to post good stuff.

Yes, you've "liked" a few things I have posted.

I really should post them on here too/\...

Yes, but I don't consider you a "random" FWIW.

tempo_n_groove

PJ_Soul said:

tempo_n_groove said:

PJ_Soul said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Meltdown99 said:

PJ_Soul said:

I have a Twitter account, but I very rarely open the app. Once in a while I retweet a tweet that I see in an article, and that's it. I find it hard to follow. I much prefer facebook. There is just so much more content there, and the comment sections are much easier to follow.

That's all I have is Facebook.  All relatives except for a few of my high school buddies.  My friend's list is pathetic.  LOL.  My cousin has 5000 friends. that's too many names to learn...LOL

Measuring your "friends list" in numbers is silly.  That's myspace Tila Tequila stuff...

I have 250 and with the FB biorhythm feed I only see a dozen at a time...  Stupes...

I don't even know at least half of my "friends" (and I think I don't even have 200 of them all together). I unfriended all my high school classmates long ago. Many of my FB friends are simply random people from the special interest closed groups I belong to who tend to post good stuff.

Yes, you've "liked" a few things I have posted.

I really should post them on here too/\...

Yes, but I don't consider you a "random" FWIW.

  

Ledbetterman10

Last night's South Park was all about how obsessed we are with our phones. I half-watched it as I played on my phone. 

Meltdown99

Why many Canadians don't love self-checkout
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/self-checkout-grocery-retail-survey-1.4926545?fbclid=IwAR3gjcFalJG0pgV-dUhobTWD87CJomImGdE8F1tSSXn61DfQXiswKbEQ98s

brianlux

Meltdown99 said:

Why many Canadians don't love self-checkout
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/self-checkout-grocery-retail-survey-1.4926545?fbclid=IwAR3gjcFalJG0pgV-dUhobTWD87CJomImGdE8F1tSSXn61DfQXiswKbEQ98s

That's my experience too.  Almost every time I got through check out the machine dings and tells me to wait for assistance.  I prepare to be dropped through a trap door.  I've tried arguing with the damn dumb machine to no avail.  So I  wait, do the eye roll, wait some more. 

But this rarely happens though because I usually allow myself enough time to get in "the real person behind the register" line.  I like seeing real people employed.  Besides that, the machine is always right.  You can't win.  With the real person cashier, you are almost always right or a least you can come to an agreement.  The machines though, they are tyrannical. 

bbiggs

tempo_n_groove said:

I wanted to revise this thread as Facebook, despite all of their security breaches, STILL want a device that has a camera in your home...
ummm, no.

Amazon is coming here to NYC.  I've no doubt that they will have drones delivering here in the next five years.

They already have these "mail boxes" throughout where you can order something, get a code and it's delivered there.

I do want automated cars.  That would mean less gridlock and zero liability on insurance.

What say you?

Regarding automated cars, I do want them, even though I enjoy driving and would prefer to be in control. Why do I want them? Because the roads are increasingly unsafe due to our technology addiction. Every time I’m on the road when it’s dark, I look around at stoplights and see the interior of cars lit up like a Christmas tree from glowing cell phone screens. Distracted drivers scare the shit out of me. Bring on automated cars for everyone’s safety and own good. 

tempo_n_groove

bbiggs said:

tempo_n_groove said:

I wanted to revise this thread as Facebook, despite all of their security breaches, STILL want a device that has a camera in your home...
ummm, no.

Amazon is coming here to NYC.  I've no doubt that they will have drones delivering here in the next five years.

They already have these "mail boxes" throughout where you can order something, get a code and it's delivered there.

I do want automated cars.  That would mean less gridlock and zero liability on insurance.

What say you?

Regarding automated cars, I do want them, even though I enjoy driving and would prefer to be in control. Why do I want them? Because the roads are increasingly unsafe due to our technology addiction. Every time I’m on the road when it’s dark, I look around at stoplights and see the interior of cars lit up like a Christmas tree from glowing cell phone screens. Distracted drivers scare the shit out of me. Bring on automated cars for everyone’s safety and own good. 

When I'm 20 deep behind a red light I wish that everyone would go at the same time like in NASCAR.  It's another reason I want the automated cars.

You are 100% correct on the distractions though.  At a light I always look over and notice someone looking down...

The cops out here have pulled people over in bumper to bumper traffic for being on their phones.

Just this weekend I watched an SUV plow in the back of a Subaru in bumper to bumper traffic...  Who does that?  A distracted driver does.

hedonist

Why not teach people to be responsible when operating a potential killing machine, instead of catering to their stupidity?

No thanks to cars that drive themselves; I doubt it would be as idyllic as many seem to envision.