Youngsters These Days......I Don't Understand!
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Kermit power said:
People only generally post up the stuff where they are having fun, and it's certainly not all the time, but if you look at your Facebook feed, all you get is a relentless stream of people having fun, which makes you wonder what's wrong with you that you're not having fun all the time as well.
Mine is pretty balanced but then that might have something to do with the average age of my friends being late 40's early 50's. Its not all fun fun fun and parties all the time. Sometime people do post things like "wife just gone out so chilling on the sofa listening to XYZ"
Cotty said:
Castrol for a knave said:
My wife watches me with a pitying look when I dash to turn on the smart TV when I discover a new episode of Project Binky is ready....
I don't really see the problem, is it because its on YouTube and not normal TV she doesn't get? Or does she just dislike the content?No, she thinks I am sad monkey for watching GCN, Car Trouble, GToger ("How many videos can you watch of cars getting towed away?" ) and such on the You Tube instead of being outside using jumpers for goalposts...
AJB88 said:
Partners got a 7 year old who sits watching Minecraft videos all day, not sure who the guy is but hes got an annoying voice and shouts "OMG" at everything.
Probably Dan TDM. We call him Dan Tedious in our house. Mine spend far too much time on YouTube and we get tantrums and withdrawal behaviours when I turn insist time is up. The things is, after the storm has blown over I get much more engagement from both boys when they actually have to talk to each other and us. Sometimes, though I just want to watch YouTube and read PH myself....
Social media, a place where people tell others what a great time they're having, to invoke jealousy and make them feel superior.
The "likes" system is genius, people crave them like crack cocaine.
Also related is that brilliant phrase I read recently. Along the lines of "Orwell got it right about 1984, cameras everywhere. What he didn't predict is that we would carry them willingly and get cross if nobody was watching".
The "likes" system is genius, people crave them like crack cocaine.
Also related is that brilliant phrase I read recently. Along the lines of "Orwell got it right about 1984, cameras everywhere. What he didn't predict is that we would carry them willingly and get cross if nobody was watching".
SCEtoAUX said:
Social media, a place where people tell others what a great time they're having, to invoke jealousy and make them feel superior.
The "likes" system is genius, people crave them like crack cocaine.
Also related is that brilliant phrase I read recently. Along the lines of "Orwell got it right about 1984, cameras everywhere. What he didn't predict is that we would carry them willingly and get cross if nobody was watching".
That's a very serious point. I worked on an NHS project a while back which stalled constantly because we couldn't figure out ways of getting enough access to both patient data and also non-patient data for measurement against the background population. In all cases, the data would've been fully pseudonymised, so what we would've received would've been a fraction of what almost every person in question would've already signed away to Facebook, but people don't bother reading or understanding Facebook's terms, because they value being able to see photos of their grandchildren more than they do their own health, it seems. The "likes" system is genius, people crave them like crack cocaine.
Also related is that brilliant phrase I read recently. Along the lines of "Orwell got it right about 1984, cameras everywhere. What he didn't predict is that we would carry them willingly and get cross if nobody was watching".
It's the lairy coloured hair that gets me. I get that people want to cover a few greys or even try being say blonde instead of ginger for a while. But what is it that possesses an otherwise perfectly normal looking woman to dye her hair electric blue? It doesn't even seem to be part of a wider oddness a la punk, as the girls who do this don't all have nose rings and face tattoos.
Cotty said:
anonymous said:
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I still don't get why you would buy someone a drink if you were not with them Just because you don't personally see or understand why doesn't mean there aren't other people who do.
It is odd to request from strangers, but who really cares, is it worth getting upset over? :-)
i4got said:
I used to drink in that pub, its Bromley South opposite the police station.Kermit power said:
That's a very serious point. I worked on an NHS project a while back which stalled constantly because we couldn't figure out ways of getting enough access to both patient data and also non-patient data for measurement against the background population. In all cases, the data would've been fully pseudonymised, so what we would've received would've been a fraction of what almost every person in question would've already signed away to Facebook, but people don't bother reading or understanding Facebook's terms, because they value being able to see photos of their grandchildren more than they do their own health, it seems.
Likewise when Blair wanted ID cards and the fight to get biometric passports... since 2008 we've been tagging everyone and their dog, the state needn't have bothered.glazbagun said:
Likewise when Blair wanted ID cards and the fight to get biometric passports... since 2008 we've been tagging everyone and their dog, the state needn't have bothered.
Interesting point.When so many people happily put up photos of their house, car, address, family and friends on line which is visible to nearly everyone..... but don't want to have an ID card under claims of invasion of privacy....
And to think we have these people voting
king weird skinny said:
Can anyone explain to me why unboxing, or watching someone talk softly into a microphone placed very close, is a thing?
Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR), is a tingling sensation that typically begins on the scalp and moves down the back of the neck and upper spine. Some people find this a pleasant experience and those videos can trigger it.skinny said:
Can anyone explain to me why unboxing, or watching someone talk softly into a microphone placed very close, is a thing?
look up ASMR. it works for some, not for others.As for unboxing videos.. really? they've always been around. it's quite a simple idea and doesn't really quite much thought to understand why someone would watch an unboxing video.
Cotty said:
skinny said:
Can anyone explain to me why unboxing, or watching someone talk softly into a microphone placed very close, is a thing?
Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR), is a tingling sensation that typically begins on the scalp and moves down the back of the neck and upper spine. Some people find this a pleasant experience and those videos can trigger it.Especially given many of the ASMR channels on Youtube are run by very attractive women :-)
Again I think this is a case of not understanding it personally so assuming that no-one else would enjoy it either.
hyphen said:
Truckosaurus said:
glazbagun said:
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What did people do before? Call the day before and meet outside a distinctive shop at the train station? It must have been chaos on a Friday night!
I'm old enough to have been a drunken youth before mobile telephones, you would use the landline to arrange a meeting place/time and...What did people do before? Call the day before and meet outside a distinctive shop at the train station? It must have been chaos on a Friday night!
The change in this is that now you can always text or Whatsapp someone to find (and even track) where they are means people go straight and find their mates in one place and tend to stay there. It means the circulation doesn't really happen like it used to and the marginal boozers don't get a look in.
I've got a theory, that the above, combined with smoking ban, supermarkets being allowed to sell cheap alcohol, and youngsters giving up booze as they have a better social life staying at home playing online games and sending naked pics of themselves to each other is killing town centre nightlife.
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