Youngsters These Days......I Don't Understand!
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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!
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.HTP99 said:
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.
It certainly is amazing. Yet a huge number of people use it to watch low quality videos of cats or people watching low quality videos.Technology is amazing.
Or just exchange text with random people for no apparent reason.....
HTP99 said:
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’m still amazed that google always knows where I parked my car. Doesn’t matter what random street I’ve dumped it, it always knows!Technology is amazing.
alorotom said:
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.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.
I'd just revert to reading books - to be fair i've started spending more and more time away from the 'net these daysh0b0 said:
Sheets Tabuer said:
I have a five year old, I picked her up the other day, she looked at my ipad and said Daddy can I watch Youtube.
Apparently watching someone called Ryan (Ryans world) playing with his toys is marvellous.
It is for Ryan who made $22M this year. Apparently watching someone called Ryan (Ryans world) playing with his toys is marvellous.
te.Where's my handycam..
Lordbenny said:
Last night my daughter went out for a drink....Spoons (Weatherspoons) obviously, with an old school friend. She had quite a few drinks but didn’t buy any of them! How was this ask? Well, you just sign up to the Spoons app and ask friends on Insta (gram) to buy your drinks for you....I must admit, that is ingenious!
I've done this to people on Twitter a few times, but I know them in "real life" tooFollow her on insta and send her a whole heap of rubbish, jugs of gravy, bowls of peas etc etc, the next time that she does it
hyphen said:
Mine gets to watch Numberblocks, Octanoughts and anything else that has some educational value, along with anything he likes (currently Holly and Ben) as a treat that ha been earnt. .
Screen time limited to roughly 1 hour a day. Lego, Brio, playmags and other toys and books keep them occupied when indoors just fine.
Very laudable, but sadly it won't last.Screen time limited to roughly 1 hour a day. Lego, Brio, playmags and other toys and books keep them occupied when indoors just fine.
You start out with the best of intentions, wanting them to engage with the real world rather than their gadgets, but then you come to realise that they engage with the real world through their gadgets, so if you limit them too much, you're actually limiting their interaction with their friends.
The whole "why don't you go out and play with your friends" approach largely falls flat because all their mates are sat at home on their Xboxes interacting with each other that way! If you listen in when they're playing a multi-player game together, some of the strategy can actually be quite impressive!
They do go out more in the summer, of course, but on a day like today, cutting a teenager's screen access would just be isolating them with no alternatives, as no other teenager is going to be out and about.
It's a sad state of affairs in some ways, but logical in others. It's certainly very, very different from when we were growing up though!!
bloomen said:
Watching other people play video games truly is something I will never, ever, ever, ever understand. I don't get how anyone of any age doing it doesn't question what the hell they're up to.
It makes sense to get through a bit you're stuck on, but for... entertainment?
I'm still not yet 30, but when I realised this was a thing, like a truly massive big thing, I concluded that I'm no longer a youth.It makes sense to get through a bit you're stuck on, but for... entertainment?
I'm young enough that online gaming should be normal to me, but I get nostalgic for multi-tap parties on a 14inch TV, some pizza and a Budweiser.
bloomen said:
Watching other people play video games truly is something I will never, ever, ever, ever understand. I don't get how anyone of any age doing it doesn't question what the hell they're up to.
It makes sense to get through a bit you're stuck on, but for... entertainment?
I had an older brother who did not think that sharing is caring so spent a lot of time watching him play. It makes sense to get through a bit you're stuck on, but for... entertainment?
My 7 year old (the one that isn’t Ryan making $22M/yr......such a disappointment) is watching Minecraft videos as we speak. He has Minecraft on the PC and tells me he is learning how to play better by watching YouTube.
bloomen said:
Watching other people play video games truly is something I will never, ever, ever, ever understand. I don't get how anyone of any age doing it doesn't question what the hell they're up to.
It makes sense to get through a bit you're stuck on, but for... entertainment?
It’s not something new. I remember 30 odd years ago as a kid me and my cousin watching my uncle play games on his new pc, wanting to have a go on something like alone in the dark.It makes sense to get through a bit you're stuck on, but for... entertainment?
Fast forward to uni we’d watch each other attempt single player half life, or gather round to watch a multiplayer c&c on the uni network.
More recently I’ve watched a bit of gaming on YouTube. First started watching it to decide if I wanted to spend the money to get back into gaming, so things like DayZ, GTA5, I’d watch a few you tubers to see how things had progressed since the mid 00’s. Now it’s mainly to get an idea about what new games are like, or as you say how to get past a certain point if I’m really stuck.
Zetec-S said:
It’s not something new. I remember 30 odd years ago as a kid me and my cousin watching my uncle play games on his new pc, wanting to have a go on something like alone in the dark.
I get it if you're waiting for your own go and it can be entertaining seeing someone you know giving it some while you wait. That's a communal thing. It's when it crosses over into watching a stranger for hours on end that my comprehension grinds to a halt. But if it makes them happy then who am I to start shrieking?Edited by bloomen on Saturday 14th December 22:41
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