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Originally posted by G:
OMG! Change! How old are you people? Just because you can't figure how to actually use your phones you want to dump on the young people, on a forum no less - crassic.
Young people who are out with their friends, at the museum, at the stadium, driving around in a rad convertible... yeah, they look pathetic.

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Originally posted by G:
OMG! Change! How old are you people? Just because you can't figure how to actually use your phones you want to dump on the young people, on a forum no less - crassic.
Young people who are out with their friends, at the museum, at the stadium, driving around in a rad convertible... yeah, they look pathetic.

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Niether - it's criticism. As people age they become more and more reluctant to change, to learn new things, and often become crabby, lazy simpletons. They live in the past because it's easier.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
What I DON'T do is check my Twitterfeed 1200 times an day, or constantly check in with my FB friends, or post the latest drunken stupor on Instagram.

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The fact that you think those are standout achievements only emphasizes your backwardness. It's funny to hear you boast about things so definitively when you have no clue who you are talking with... wait... I mean it's just empty-headed bravado.

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Spoken like a true grandma - "Those darn kids! Get off my lawn!"

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
The lure of the 'net, of being connected, via social media or just checking stocks,scores, weather, etc... can be addicting. I see it everywhere. At football games,concerts, what not... folks " connecting " with their friends and family, the ones who AREN'T there, more than those who are actually sitting next to them.

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Yeah, that's so sad being connected to so many people as opposed to just the ones sitting next to us... < / snarkasm > Imagine if we never communicated with any people here... from so many different countries... so many divergent points of view... ?

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Oh, MRG probably thinks he's part of a "Twitter revolution", like the Arab Spring. Some people think that if not for Twitter, the uprisings wouldn't have happened at all. What most people don't realize is that half of the Egyptian hashtags originated in Israel. It's incredibly easy to tweet misinformation.

Another problem with Twitter, FB, and Youtube etc is that they can create "flash-in-the-pan" movements. Remember Kony 2012? The Ice Bucket Challenge? What did they accomplish?

Nothing.

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>>>> $100 million is nothing? I think people suffering from ALS might disagree. http://www.ibtimes.com/how-much-money-has-als-ice-bucket-challenge-rai
sed-more-100-million-has-poured-where-will-1677980

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Merely following/ retweeting/ clicking on a button isn't effective. People actually have to DO SOMETHING MEANINGFUL in real life... like go to a demonstration and risk getting shot at maybe, or go on strike, or at least stop buying a product.

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>>>> The Signym lecture is here! How people should live their lives according to Signym! Do it my way - control control control.

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So, on a more metaphysical level, when I said that people were mesmerized by their own digital reflection, I didn't just mean that they were living their lives through their own duck-faced selfies on the inet.

"In the old days", you had to get along with your family, your neighbors, your classmates, your co-workers no matter how "out there" they (or you) were. You had to listen the same lamestream news and watch the same TV shows, no matter how much you disagreed with them.

But with a world-full of opinions available now, it's far too easy to surround yourself with like- minded people: select the tweets that you want to follow, the friends you want, the opinions you agree with. Think of the most obscure or illegal or just plain bizarre activity, and you can find a nice comfortable group to do that with.

Yes, the internet has huge potential for communication, but most people don't communicate with people who are different, they communicate with people who are the same. They stick with the agreeable and the convenient, and thus they lose the ability to communicate at all.

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>>>> You know this because you asked most of human kind?

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On another note, I don't make any claim to be a computer expert, but I know someone who is - certainly more than MRG thinks he is.

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This person, who knows pretty much everything there is to know about computers (including AI) is rather disparaging of them, and the use that people have made of them.

One of the things he said is that Einstein didn't have a computer. Neither did Newton. Or Maxwell. And yet, we still use their equations.

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>>>> And just Imagine what they could have done if they had - that's probably too much for you to wrap your brain around.

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The other thing he said is that computers are like guns in the hands of babies. They allow people to calculate all kinds of technological things (like nanoparticles or AI) that they don't understand and can't predict.

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>>>> possibly the lamest simile ever posted

The mountain of dumb-shittery that you and Kiki post is just staggering.

http://www.ibtimes.com/how-much-money-has-als-ice-bucket-challenge-rai
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"... because they can play with the technology that their forbears built?"

I don't think it even goes that far. He knows people, who know people, who work for the NSA ... yanno, cause he's Geezer, the one who claimed that the US never had nothin' to do with any of the juntas and death squads in South and Central America, because he had access to super secret classified records that said so.

Isn't that right Geezer? I mean GeeWhiz.

So, tell me Geezer ... I mean GeeWhiz ...

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Her boasting about something about something a 12 year old can do is empty-headed bravado

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OMG! Change! How old are you people? Just because you can't figure how to actually use your phones you want to dump on the young people, on a forum no less - crassic.
Young people who are out with their friends, at the museum, at the stadium, driving around in a rad convertible... yeah, they look pathetic.

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Does anybody know if this post is satire or caricature? Or does G want to be at the same intersection as the driver of a 5 ton truck piloted by a young person ignoring the stopsign/red light in favor of their facebook update or tweet?

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Niether - it's criticism. As people age they become more and more reluctant to change, to learn new things, and often become crabby, lazy simpletons. They live in the past because it's easier.

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Texting is illegal in almost all states, and most states have introduced bans on use of cell phones while driving. I hope that becomes law soon as well.

http://www.ncsl.org/research/transportation/cellular-phone-use-and-tex
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You sound like one of the young, incompetent, lazy simpleton know-it-alls

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No, I'm against texting while driving. I think it should be outlawed everywhere. I even think using cellphones while driving for anything should be against the law.

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... it's just empty-headed bravado.

And you know this - how?
The only thing I get out of your post is how quickly and easily you post lies and claim they're facts.

Show me one example - come on genius, just one.

How about this one?

... it's just empty-headed bravado.

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That's a lie??? Her boasting about something a 12 year old can do is empty-headed bravado - a definite fact.

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Her boasting about something about something a 12 year old can do is empty-headed bravado

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Where was I "boasting"? Where was I demonstrating "empty headed bravado"?

Be specific.

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Her boasting about something about something a 12 year old can do is empty-headed bravado

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Where was I "boasting"? Where was I demonstrating "empty headed bravado"?

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Do I have to quote your own posts back to you?
OK:

"For sure, I know more about "technology" than you do, and probably more about computers. (HINT: Have you built your own? Ever written a progam?) Clearly, I know how to access the internet. I can do searches. I can view Twitter all I want." I guess it makes sense for someone as conceited as you to not think that is empty-headed boasting.

Look, 9 year old Microsoft genius:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/05/17/marco.calasan.macedonia/

The only question is: what took you so long?

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I'm curious about your intelligence though... where did you find these?

"beyond lying online, and Twitter, FB, Youtube, and Instagram..."

do you have examples? Are they in the same thread where you lied/mistook me using MSM sources? You haven't addressed that yet - hiding?

Any examples? Denying? Avoiding? Deflecting? Lying?

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The ability to use technology isn't a condition of age or generation; it's a matter of the thickness of the bozone layer the individual is surrounded by. The bigger issue is those who lack the self discipline to put the phone down and it is mostly the younger generation who have this problem. And it isn't just at university either, I see it when I am at work as well. Younger crew members are terrified to leave their phones for any length of time, even when responding to a call.

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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:

It's not all the youngsters, it's middle aged people as well. What's the story with people not being able to turn their phones off, or not answer them. I've been in meetings with people who insist on taking calls. I feel like saying 'unless someone is dying, do you think that call could wait 30 FUCKING MINUTES'

Technology certainly has changed the way we interact with others and the world around us, and I think it's sometimes frightening because the changes are so fast, we dont have time to consider the implications. And by the time we do, the genie aint being stuffed back in the bottle.

So here is the conundrum. We can communicate instantaneously with people all over the globe, cheaply too. But do we feel more or less connected than say 20 years ago? And secondly, has that communication added value to our lives. I think of this every time another beheading video does the round. Or I stumble across some troll spitting abuse and vitriol.

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