Unfortunately, that pretty much sums up much of the Millennial generation.
MuckAbout
December 19, 2014 1:39 pm
My response – were I a member of any of the groups above would be, “Turn that fucking thing off!”
I have, this week alone, stood stock still and have been assaulted – once from the front, once from the rear – by idiots using a video device and you know the rest of the story. I’m old enough to say exactly what I think and the air was a bit bluer when we parted.
MA
Bea Lever
December 19, 2014 1:41 pm
I’m with Al !! I have seen teens stand next to each other and text instead of conversing….sad .
Kill BiLL
December 19, 2014 2:08 pm
I took a friend of my seesters to airport the other day. I put her bags in the car got in, she pulls out the Zombie and starts texting, looking at Internet, I think she even took a selfie, the entire drive to the point of rudeness.
I think she was one of these.
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Kill Bill
December 19, 2014 2:11 pm
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Yeh, thats her.
bb
December 19, 2014 2:37 pm
Kill Bill your just a cranky old fart.
ASIG
December 19, 2014 2:49 pm
When the cell phone first came into practical use it was only affordable by the wealthy, and therefore developed into a status symbol.
Now I see people that dig through the garbage for recyclables that have their smart phones, but it still holds some level of status. If you don’t have a smart phone you’re not “with it” you’re not “connected” or “in touch”.
What I find fascinating is in poor countries, people will have a smart phone even those that truly have nothing, they may live in a shack, and that phone may represent most of their income for a year. But they can be seen in public with that phone and project an image that masks their true position. It is their most prized possession.
And I still have a plain ole flip phone. I have never cared at all about image.
yahsure
December 19, 2014 4:14 pm
Shooting cell phones is really relaxing. My kids, believe me when i say to knock it off or i will shoot their cell phone. The look on their face is priceless. Tablets and most other things i didn’t pay for are also fair game. I don’t do this very much. Don’t need to.
mrk030
December 19, 2014 5:10 pm
While I agree with the sentiments of the quote – Einstein most likely did not say those words.
I’ve lately opined that had the iPhone existed first, Einstein would have never discovered his theory of relativity.
The instant idiocy is shortening attention spans, even mine.
Without the ability to sit quietly, think deeply and imagine, our days of innovation are coming to an end.
Oh sure the captured corporate science labs may continue turning out toxins and calling them health, but the real innovations will go the way of the dodo.
Only 1 out of 8 teachers I’ve talked to about this sees it and agrees. The rest believe that being easily distracted and unable to concentrate are not detrimental to our futures.
Every day, nearly every thing I learn, lead me to the same place: horror, idiots and fear.
I pray I’m wrong.
Kill Bill
December 19, 2014 11:37 pm
Kill Bill your just a cranky old fart. -bb
yeh, bb, I am cranky, but not rude to friends of fambly.
Here I am taking a woman I dont know to the airport to help out sis. If I was a hired cab I could deal with the zombie rider. But that was not the case.
JAH666
December 21, 2014 10:43 am
I’m an IT professional in a hospital. and oh by the way I hate smart phones etc, and the hardest thing the dept managers have to do is keep their personnel off their damn phones. Nursing staff, lab staff, office staff, are never more than six inches from the damn things. They take breaks and lunch and never say a word to anyone. They walk down the halls oblivious…
CA
December 21, 2014 10:59 am
What ASIG says about poor countries is true. Every person I see has a smart phone and they are glued to it. Nice clothes, shoes and a smart phone. They even ask for handouts with a hand open and a phone in the other. Absolutely amazing.
SSS
December 21, 2014 11:28 am
“And I still have a plain ole flip phone.”
—-asig
Me, too. And if memory serves, there’s another person on this site who has a flip phone. Uses the screen name “Admin.”
My flip phone got a real workout last month. 64 minutes on the phone. My mother must have called. It’s usually 4 minutes.
I received 63 texts and sent none. About half the texts were updates from Verizon that my kids were in danger of using all their data plan before the end of the billing cycle. The other texts were from kids asking me questions and my lovely wife sending me humorous anecdotes or pictures.
SSS
December 21, 2014 1:16 pm
“I received 63 texts and sent none.”
—-Admin
My texting skills are slim to none, and Slim usually leaves town when I try to send a text longer than one word. It’s really pathetic, and I usually just give up and call if it’s someone I know.
Bea Lever
December 21, 2014 1:51 pm
ADMIN and SSS
I am glad to know that there are others who do not join in this insanity. I have never texted or twittered. What does this say about our kind?
IndenturedServant
December 21, 2014 2:17 pm
I’m still using the same flip phone I bought in 2007. I had texting deactivated in 2007 because people I did not know were sending me texts and I was being billed for receiving them. When it dies I think I’m going back to a landline.
ASIG
December 21, 2014 3:58 pm
The number of times in my life that I’ve sent a text? That’s easy – 0
Lets see, how do you do this?
Push the 3 – 3 times
The 8 – 2
2 – 3
5 – 2
9 – 3
6 – 3
8 – 2
Iska Waran
December 21, 2014 4:00 pm
This is why electric cars are good. Idiots on their smart phones while walking through crosswalks never hear the car coming. Splat. Darwin award.
SSS
December 21, 2014 5:47 pm
“I am glad to know that there are others who do not join in this insanity. I have never texted or twittered. What does this say about our kind?”
—-Bea Lever @ Admin and SSS
We’re either 1) very smart or 2) dumb and lazy. I’m taking Door #1. I see that IndenturedServant joined the flip-phone club. It’s a frickin’ revolt.
ASIG sends a “Fuck you” text and screws it up. Good for him. I believe it’s “Fuk u” in text language. It’s always the spacing between words, backspacing, punctuation, capitalization and other shit that messes me up. I’m NOT sending texts that are not grammatically correct. Call me anal, which, when it comes to proper English, I am.
IndenturedServant
December 21, 2014 6:05 pm
” I see that IndenturedServant joined the flip-phone club.”
I didn’t join it, I practically started it. I’ve only ever had two cell phones. Both were flip phones. The first was a gift along with a years free unlimited service from my former employer when I left him for a better job.
El Coyote
December 21, 2014 11:23 pm
I’m NOT sending texts that are not grammatically correct. Call me anal, which, when it comes to proper English, I am.
Try speaking proper and grammatically correct English and you risk being misunderstood. Someone referenced the Twilight Zone episode about a man who failed to keep up with the lingo. He was lost in the modern world and had to begin at the beginning studying the dictionary.
Administrator
Author
December 22, 2014 8:26 am
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Judith
January 25, 2015 10:08 pm
What a sad state of being for these generations . . . they choose a small communication “device” — which, by the way, is emitting radiation at high enough frequencies to cause brain damage, cancer, infertility, interference with nerve, heart, and circulatory function — they choose this over the gift of real-time, face-to-face interactions with family and friends? WHAT’S HAPPENED?!?!?
Unfortunately, that pretty much sums up much of the Millennial generation.
My response – were I a member of any of the groups above would be, “Turn that fucking thing off!”
I have, this week alone, stood stock still and have been assaulted – once from the front, once from the rear – by idiots using a video device and you know the rest of the story. I’m old enough to say exactly what I think and the air was a bit bluer when we parted.
MA
I’m with Al !! I have seen teens stand next to each other and text instead of conversing….sad .
I took a friend of my seesters to airport the other day. I put her bags in the car got in, she pulls out the Zombie and starts texting, looking at Internet, I think she even took a selfie, the entire drive to the point of rudeness.
I think she was one of these.
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Yeh, thats her.
Kill Bill your just a cranky old fart.
When the cell phone first came into practical use it was only affordable by the wealthy, and therefore developed into a status symbol.
Now I see people that dig through the garbage for recyclables that have their smart phones, but it still holds some level of status. If you don’t have a smart phone you’re not “with it” you’re not “connected” or “in touch”.
What I find fascinating is in poor countries, people will have a smart phone even those that truly have nothing, they may live in a shack, and that phone may represent most of their income for a year. But they can be seen in public with that phone and project an image that masks their true position. It is their most prized possession.
And I still have a plain ole flip phone. I have never cared at all about image.
Shooting cell phones is really relaxing. My kids, believe me when i say to knock it off or i will shoot their cell phone. The look on their face is priceless. Tablets and most other things i didn’t pay for are also fair game. I don’t do this very much. Don’t need to.
While I agree with the sentiments of the quote – Einstein most likely did not say those words.
I’ve lately opined that had the iPhone existed first, Einstein would have never discovered his theory of relativity.
The instant idiocy is shortening attention spans, even mine.
Without the ability to sit quietly, think deeply and imagine, our days of innovation are coming to an end.
Oh sure the captured corporate science labs may continue turning out toxins and calling them health, but the real innovations will go the way of the dodo.
Only 1 out of 8 teachers I’ve talked to about this sees it and agrees. The rest believe that being easily distracted and unable to concentrate are not detrimental to our futures.
Every day, nearly every thing I learn, lead me to the same place: horror, idiots and fear.
I pray I’m wrong.
Kill Bill your just a cranky old fart. -bb
yeh, bb, I am cranky, but not rude to friends of fambly.
Here I am taking a woman I dont know to the airport to help out sis. If I was a hired cab I could deal with the zombie rider. But that was not the case.
I’m an IT professional in a hospital. and oh by the way I hate smart phones etc, and the hardest thing the dept managers have to do is keep their personnel off their damn phones. Nursing staff, lab staff, office staff, are never more than six inches from the damn things. They take breaks and lunch and never say a word to anyone. They walk down the halls oblivious…
What ASIG says about poor countries is true. Every person I see has a smart phone and they are glued to it. Nice clothes, shoes and a smart phone. They even ask for handouts with a hand open and a phone in the other. Absolutely amazing.
“And I still have a plain ole flip phone.”
—-asig
Me, too. And if memory serves, there’s another person on this site who has a flip phone. Uses the screen name “Admin.”
My flip phone got a real workout last month. 64 minutes on the phone. My mother must have called. It’s usually 4 minutes.
I received 63 texts and sent none. About half the texts were updates from Verizon that my kids were in danger of using all their data plan before the end of the billing cycle. The other texts were from kids asking me questions and my lovely wife sending me humorous anecdotes or pictures.
“I received 63 texts and sent none.”
—-Admin
My texting skills are slim to none, and Slim usually leaves town when I try to send a text longer than one word. It’s really pathetic, and I usually just give up and call if it’s someone I know.
ADMIN and SSS
I am glad to know that there are others who do not join in this insanity. I have never texted or twittered. What does this say about our kind?
I’m still using the same flip phone I bought in 2007. I had texting deactivated in 2007 because people I did not know were sending me texts and I was being billed for receiving them. When it dies I think I’m going back to a landline.
The number of times in my life that I’ve sent a text? That’s easy – 0
Lets see, how do you do this?
Push the 3 – 3 times
The 8 – 2
2 – 3
5 – 2
9 – 3
6 – 3
8 – 2
This is why electric cars are good. Idiots on their smart phones while walking through crosswalks never hear the car coming. Splat. Darwin award.
“I am glad to know that there are others who do not join in this insanity. I have never texted or twittered. What does this say about our kind?”
—-Bea Lever @ Admin and SSS
We’re either 1) very smart or 2) dumb and lazy. I’m taking Door #1. I see that IndenturedServant joined the flip-phone club. It’s a frickin’ revolt.
ASIG sends a “Fuck you” text and screws it up. Good for him. I believe it’s “Fuk u” in text language. It’s always the spacing between words, backspacing, punctuation, capitalization and other shit that messes me up. I’m NOT sending texts that are not grammatically correct. Call me anal, which, when it comes to proper English, I am.
” I see that IndenturedServant joined the flip-phone club.”
I didn’t join it, I practically started it. I’ve only ever had two cell phones. Both were flip phones. The first was a gift along with a years free unlimited service from my former employer when I left him for a better job.
I’m NOT sending texts that are not grammatically correct. Call me anal, which, when it comes to proper English, I am.
Try speaking proper and grammatically correct English and you risk being misunderstood. Someone referenced the Twilight Zone episode about a man who failed to keep up with the lingo. He was lost in the modern world and had to begin at the beginning studying the dictionary.
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What a sad state of being for these generations . . . they choose a small communication “device” — which, by the way, is emitting radiation at high enough frequencies to cause brain damage, cancer, infertility, interference with nerve, heart, and circulatory function — they choose this over the gift of real-time, face-to-face interactions with family and friends? WHAT’S HAPPENED?!?!?