Youngsters These Days......I Don't Understand!

[JimbobVFR]

Do you not remember your parents looking at you bemused when you were young. It's nothing new.

“Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.”

[The Moose]

Being able to buy drinks online through social media is a freaking genius idea!

[wisbech]

Baldchap said:

The boy is 14 and does the whole YouTube on TV thing, watching other people's videos of games. I find it odd.

At 16 his sister takes pictures of everything she eats or drinks to post on social media. I didn't really know why.

When they are with their friends they stare at their phones and don't talk. Very odd.

I'm not yet 40 (not far at all, mind) and I'm starting to feel old!

True. I found my Dad watching golf, rather than playing it odd as well.

[hyphen]

jurbie said:

hyphen said:

To be fair, OP's daughter and her bf beg virtual mates to buy drinks for them.

Sounds more like she's an online dominatrix and has a following of 'pay pigs' picking up her tab.

I googled that phrase

[steveo3002]

how does the strangers buying you drinks work ? you flash a bit of flesh on the instragram and sado sends over a babycham?

[DSLiverpool]

Go on TikTok put sails Chinese New Year into search - beggers belief

[HTP99]

DSLiverpool said:

Go on TikTok put sails Chinese New Year into search - beggers belief

People wiggling their hips side to side?

[rallycross]

hyphen said:

jurbie said:

hyphen said:

To be fair, OP's daughter and her bf beg virtual mates to buy drinks for them.

Sounds more like she's an online dominatrix and has a following of 'pay pigs' picking up her tab.

I googled that phrase

There are some strange people out there that’s for sure!

[Jim the Sunderer]

Young adult women these days seem to be wearing horrible NHS glasses and the lads are wearing what one would call "sex nonce spectacles".

Nowt as queer as folk, eh?

[tr7v8]

Lordbenny said:

It’s also amazing that on arrival at Tallinn airport last week she told me exactly which two trams to take to our apartment in the old town and how to buy a travel card before we’d left the terminal.

Try Rome2Rio. Literally point to point travel anywhere in the world. I travel a lot for work & it works very well.

[Brigand]

Baldchap said:

The boy is 14 and does the whole YouTube on TV thing, watching other people's videos of games. I find it odd.

I find it odd that people sit at home and watch other people playing football on the TV, I mean, why watch someone else do it when you could just go outside and play it yourself? Crazy!

I hear a lot of parents / older people talk about how they see their kids watching other people play games on YouTube and can't understand it, but it is exactly the same as watching sport on TV. And before someone jumps in saying "Uhhh, it's too expensive to get into motorsport myself so I watch it on TV because I enjoy it", the same can be said of people not being able to afford a console or PC to play the game, so rather than going without they can still watch it at least via YouTube or similar.

Edited by Brigand on Saturday 14th December 14:04

[Unbusy]

HTP99 said:

all you do is tap into Google maps your destination, select the mode of transport (public transport), it flags up the bus numbers and time tables, you select the bus you want and it even tracks it's journey and stop names right to where you are and even lets you know by how many minutes it is running late.

That is something I didn’t know about google maps but will come in handy for certain. Many thanks for it.

[glazbagun]

HTP99 said:

Lordbenny said:

It’s also amazing that on arrival at Tallinn airport last week she told me exactly which two trams to take to our apartment in the old town and how to buy a travel card before we’d left the terminal.

Actually this is pretty cool and still amazes me as we were in Poland in October, we like to take busses if possible as it's cheap and easy, all you do is tap into Google maps your destination, select the mode of transport (public transport), it flags up the bus numbers and time tables, you select the bus you want and it even tracks it's journey and stop names right to where you are and even lets you know by how many minutes it is running late.

Technology is amazing.

I find this amazing to the point where I wonder how people coped without it. I can go to a brand new coty and use public transport to meet friends at a pub I've never been to, and if it's too busy to see them I can txt/ call them.

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!

[bristolracer]

glazbagun said:

I find this amazing to the point where I wonder how people coped without it. I can go to a brand new coty and use public transport to meet friends at a pub I've never been to, and if it's too busy to see them I can txt/ call them.

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!

It would be interesting to see how some would cope if the entire internet stopped working for 48 hours. Its only just over a decade old,and yet we are all completely tied to it.

[ApOrbital]

bristolracer said:

It would be interesting to see how some would cope if the entire internet stopped working for 48 hours. Its only just over a decade old,and yet we are all completely tied to it.

The net is older than 10 years old.

[littleredrooster]

Lordbenny said:

At 52....nope, hold on...I’m 53!....(have to think about it these days) the phrase I never thought I’d hear myself say is.....I feel old!

...and when you're 65, you'll be glad that you downloaded an app called Flush.

DAMHIK

[bristolracer]

ApOrbital said:

bristolracer said:

It would be interesting to see how some would cope if the entire internet stopped working for 48 hours. Its only just over a decade old,and yet we are all completely tied to it.

The net is older than 10 years old.

Yes I know
Just over a decade in mainstream every man and and his dog having it on a phone, tablet or pc fridge or car with wifi everywhere rather than it it being a nerdy pedants hobby or a conduit for porn.

[Lemming Train]

Monkeylegend said:

I needed to make a phone call on my mobile last week and it took me 10 mins to find the phone keypad on it to dial the numbers.

And then another 10 minutes deleting and retyping all the wrong numbers you keep pressing with your fat fingers. Or is that just me. Give me a 3310 any day.

[Monkeylegend]

Lemming Train said:

Monkeylegend said:

I needed to make a phone call on my mobile last week and it took me 10 mins to find the phone keypad on it to dial the numbers.

And then another 10 minutes deleting and retyping all the wrong numbers you keep pressing with your fat fingers. Or is that just me. Give me a 3310 any day.

Not just you

I can see those magic eye pictures though

[Truckosaurus]

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 then we just wandered from pub to pub and you bumped into other people you knew.

As for public transport, you had to go down to the station a few days before your journey and there was some bloke with an encyclopedic knowledge of the train network so with the aid of a big book of prices he could tell you the best route from our local station to anywhere in the country.

It's been a long time since I've had to get (or give) directions from/to someone, you used to have a piece of paper saying something like "M6 J10, left at 3rd set of lights, right at Red Lion pub" to travel from one end of the country to the other, now I get a cold sweat if I don't put the satnav on for a journey I've done hundreds of times in case I hit traffic and could have gone a different way.