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Who gets p
d off with the younger ones aged from 12 to about 30 / 40 or even older who can't do anything without telling all their friends via mobile / text / facebook etc. what they have just done
I'm convinced the young ones would have major withdrawal symptoms if their mobile wouldn't work for a few days or should that be a few hours ?
for example 21 yr old apprentice in work screws up big time and spends 20 minutes telling all his buddies on his damn I-phone thing , "yeh I screwed up big time but who gives a st are we out on the beer tonight ?
feck me I was 28 before I had a mobile phone ........... they wern't invented before that
I had to tell my mates a week later everytime I went to the bog not like the youth of today every 5 minutes
A mobile to me is an advantage not a must have
anyone else think the same ?
or am I getting too old
probably know the answer to that
d off with the younger ones aged from 12 to about 30 / 40 or even older who can't do anything without telling all their friends via mobile / text / facebook etc. what they have just done I'm convinced the young ones would have major withdrawal symptoms if their mobile wouldn't work for a few days or should that be a few hours ?
for example 21 yr old apprentice in work screws up big time and spends 20 minutes telling all his buddies on his damn I-phone thing , "yeh I screwed up big time but who gives a s
t are we out on the beer tonight ? feck me I was 28 before I had a mobile phone ........... they wern't invented before that
I had to tell my mates a week later everytime I went to the bog not like the youth of today every 5 minutes
A mobile to me is an advantage not a must have
anyone else think the same ?
or am I getting too old
probably know the answer to that
Ry_B said:
traffman said:
I couldnt believe how quickly these young uns can text , some kids text whilst the phones still in there pocket.
I'd say more 18-25 year olds can do this than can't.s knows the difference between there, they're and their. f
king homophones.I find the issue is with the person, not the technology. I have plenty of contacts on both Facebook and Twitter. Many use it to share utter banality about their day-to-day existence that nobody who wasn't addicted to Big Brother could possibly find interesting. Many others share interesting, thought-provoking or funny snippets which spark discussion and debate.
Every now and then I purge the worst offenders in the first group.
Every now and then I purge the worst offenders in the first group.
x type said:
the younger ones aged from 12 to about 30 / 40 or even older
Exactly how old are you?!? 
I do agree though. I'm 40, and there was a point in the recent past when technology overtook me. I had a mobile phone when I was 21, so that's 1990 and makes me a relatively Early Adopter, I reckon. I bought the first proper 'smartphone' (Ericsson R380s), and I've been through who knows how many iPaqs and iPods. But I also thought the internet would be a flash in the pan and I believe that mobiles are for having telephone conversations, not texting. And I fail to understand the point of Facebook.
It's my belief that, just as we all have a 'plateau' age (the age that you've always felt, and once you've past it, you continue to feel), we also have a technological age, which is that age you reach after which nothing new makes any sense.
In my case, I am 40/36
ETA: iPaq / iPod. Coincidence? Hmmm.
Edited by Doofus on Friday 18th June 22:17
x type said:
Doofus said:
x type said:
the younger ones aged from 12 to about 30 / 40 or even older
Exactly how old are you?!? Pointless getting pissed off about it, Daddyo, it won't change them, although they might be a little less ready to boast about f
king up if there is some comeback.No, it isn't just you. I am 45, work in IT and actually know how things work in technology but I do not see the point of life on a mobile or Facebook etc. All our friends keep asking if we are on Facebook and we prefer to stay away from it as we want to have something to say to our friends when we see them. That's when we catch up on life's trials and turns.
Must sign off now as we are, again, just about to go out to SEE some of our friends.
Get out there!
Must sign off now as we are, again, just about to go out to SEE some of our friends.
Get out there!
sdmurray said:
No, it isn't just you. I am 45, work in IT and actually know how things work in technology but I do not see the point of life on a mobile or Facebook etc. All our friends keep asking if we are on Facebook and we prefer to stay away from it as we want to have something to say to our friends when we see them. That's when we catch up on life's trials and turns.
Must sign off now as we are, again, just about to go out to SEE some of our friends.
Get out there!
sounds like you,too, have misunderstood. These things do not have to take the place of face to face conversation. I have friends all over the world who don't get to spend time with me much at all. They can keep up with what's happening via digital media, as I can with them. Moderation in all things, of course. Must sign off now as we are, again, just about to go out to SEE some of our friends.
Get out there!
ETA, 'we prefer to stay away from it'? Are you Howard and Hilda?
Edited by Pothole on Saturday 19th June 09:19
x type said:
Ry_B said:
Get with the times.
I am I got mobile i-pod etc. it's just so annoying they can't do anything withou the mobile stuck in their ear 
Some are suggesting with such increased use of social networking, society will become less social generally and people will get lazy always communicating through the likes of facespace.
I see the benefit, but i also cringe when i see people out on nights out posing the the camera puckering their lips ready for the facebook update picture. Or when groups of people take a photograph looking like they are having the time of their life, then after the picture stand around looking glum. Sometimes seems all a bit false to me. I used facebook for a few weeks and it seemed alot of people were appearing to be alot more cool/funny/social than they are in reality.
Reality, FTW!
I see the benefit, but i also cringe when i see people out on nights out posing the the camera puckering their lips ready for the facebook update picture. Or when groups of people take a photograph looking like they are having the time of their life, then after the picture stand around looking glum. Sometimes seems all a bit false to me. I used facebook for a few weeks and it seemed alot of people were appearing to be alot more cool/funny/social than they are in reality.
Reality, FTW!
I occasionally use Facebook for the free poker thing. The number of people who seem to use it to describe every moment of their terminally depressing lives is in itself, terminally depressing.
Worse than that, it only encourages the dribbling mongs amongst society to drag their retarded knuckles across a keyboard and murder the English Language whilst they do so, in a tripple whammy of boring, inane and illiterate.
Worse than that, it only encourages the dribbling mongs amongst society to drag their retarded knuckles across a keyboard and murder the English Language whilst they do so, in a tripple whammy of boring, inane and illiterate.
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