jamesg1213


When my daughter and her boyfriend are here for dinner, we'll often sit down and watch a movie in the evening. Within 5 minutes they'll be sitting side by side with their iPhones, both on FB.

I asked them the other night why it wasn't possible to just do one thing without having do something else at the same time - i.e. just watch the movie? Blank looks.

Seems to be an addiction of sorts.

You know you're screwed when you can't even watch a microwave count down from 00:59 to 00:00 without whipping out your phone. 

That's the way many people's brains are "trained" to work these days - seems we need a new thing to focus on every few seconds or minutes. 

Yeah it plays havoc with your concentration. I'm a pretty bad phone fiddler. If it's not Facebook it's the 12 or so games of Words With Friends I have going. We're becoming addicted to getting and responding to notifications. That red notification icon on Facebook is like a hit of cocaine. 

To be honest I'm not one to sit for any length of time on Facebook or WWF. It just fills those little gaps in between doing more important things. But I don't think I can remember the time when I used to just sit and think in those gaps. Even a 30 second elevator ride has me pulling out the phone and reading an email. 

Having said that, I'm unashamedly in love with gadgets and technology. 

Yep - it's pretty insidious. Every time I pick a book, it takes a while before my brain quits the nasty habit of scanning for new info. It's like it's expecting a new source of excitement. So I make an effort to regularly focus one ONE thing - a book, a tutorial or whatever.

But long gone are the days when I could sit there for hours just listening to albums - and doing nothing else. 

Furthermore, since my record collection resides on the computer, it's way too easy to start reading something on the web, then looking up a word, clicking on a link, ending up on wikipedia - and then another word reminds you of that cool plug-in you want to buy, and all of sudden you realize that you have like w/ 20 tabs open in your browser, yet,  you have no idea why you ended up watching those funny cat videos on YouTube... :s

The following is in general about users online activities; 

The media can easily and conveniently obtain photos for use in news articles for example; a wife of a soldier who died later finds out that newspapers had 'freely' used a photo without prior permission or knowledge.  In another incident the wrong photo (mistaken identity) the same name; wrong person. 

That said; I'm also seeing more and more photos published by media with the tag; Photo by; {name of social site} 

Fact is; not many people bother reading the terms of use before uploading content. 

There are also concerns about photos and graphic art used by some corporations to sell merchandise without permission and acknowledgement. 

Photos and Graphics Stolen

I think it's best for music artists to use social sites 'music page' accounts purely as business advertisement space but be very careful in regards to content uploaded.   

Recently I've changed strategies that limits my participation dramatically and restrict media content to basically; 'external links'; thereby leaving most of that actual content OFF social sites. This works well because often links are 'shared' among friends and I'm OK with that. 

A lot of music artists use as many sites as available to spread awareness about their music much further; to hopefully be discovered by a major label.  I see nothing wrong with that; what I see terribly wrong is being careless with content and comments freely submitted without realizing possible consequences that may occur in the future.....  


Media loves a great story but be aware that not all music reviews and music news articles will be positive. 

Rain




I don't know even what or who a Notre Dame BQ is. 

I think "Rudy" when I hear "Notre Dame".
I haven't read the book but I did see the movie. I think it's a great movie.

When my daughter and her boyfriend are here for dinner, we'll often sit down and watch a movie in the evening. Within 5 minutes they'll be sitting side by side with their iPhones, both on FB. I asked them the other night why it wasn't possible to just do one thing without having do something else at the same time - i.e. just watch the movie? Blank looks. Seems to be an addiction of sorts.

 
You shoud get something you can switch on that blocks cellphone signals... I bet that would be fun!
 
J

sharke

That red notification icon on Facebook is like a hit of cocaine. 

  Thats the BEST description Ive ever seen on it,  Not for me but what has happened with everyone I see around me.  


I dont even have a phone anymore. Just got so tired of giving AT&T an extra $70-80 a month when there are so many phones and ways to catch me.  So nice not having one.  


The other day out driving around getting things done felt so good not having that thing constantly bothering me.  Kinda took me back to the days before cell phones when ya felt like you were getting things done without being constantly bothered or getting side tracked by some gadget.


Really feels good  

or WWF

 
Pardon my ignorance but what is WWF? I saw another reference to it in another thread.
 
OK, I took the time to use Google, is it Words With Friends? I assume so... I have all apps and invitations to FB apps blocked. I guess that is why I didn't know. Maybe this is why I only have one real friend (lots of FB friends though). I would get irritated to the point of rudeness by this (WWF) in less than a day... then I would have no friends, lol.
 
I absolutely hate "chat" or messenger service.  I mean, I am reading about something or looking for something online or studying amateur gynecology and someone pops in with, "Hey, what are you doing"? Really?
I could easily become a hermit.
I don't like landline phones much and I really hate cellphones but it has become a necessity because of business. I really believe people need quiet time in order to be psychologically healthy. I don't use GPS, I don't play games on my phone or computer. I don't answer the phone if the number is "out of area", they can eave a message.
 
Actually I leave chat enabled on FB but I find that if I have nothing to say and use answers like nothing, yes, and, no... the conversation does not last long and I can get back to my demented little life. I have been considering closing my FB acct. but no...I will keep it, I have found some people I Love who I have not seen in years. Then again there are other old friends who I wonder about because of the things they post on FB. Facebook bothers me most of all because it parades the ignorance of people and it is truy diturbing. Most people are not stupid but many are truly ignorant. I think it is a display of the failings (by design) of our government school system and media, in that they choose to not teach people a complete and true history of either the nation or the world and forget a civics lesson with an open discussion.
 
Oh well...
 
J
 
 

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sharke

That red notification icon on Facebook is like a hit of cocaine. 

  Thats the BEST description Ive ever seen on it,  Not for me but what has happened with everyone I see around me.  


I dont even have a phone anymore. Just got so tired of giving AT&T an extra $70-80 a month when there are so many phones and ways to catch me.  So nice not having one.  


The other day out driving around getting things done felt so good not having that thing constantly bothering me.  Kinda took me back to the days before cell phones when ya felt like you were getting things done without being constantly bothered or getting side tracked by some gadget.


Really feels good  

Unfortunately I need a phone with email, web and advanced calendar functionality for my biz. Knowing how addicted I would probably become a few years ago when I moved into the world of smartphones, I started with a BlackBerry because they're more "businessy." But I still managed to browse the web and use Facebook on it. Then because I needed more advanced multiple calendar functionality than a BlackBerry could provide, I "upgraded" to an iPhone. I mean it does have a lot of great business and productivity apps right? Hooooo boy. I had Angry Birds on that thing in a flash. At one point I had this stupid game where you manage a hi-rise tower and all of its little 8-bit occupants...Tiny Tower I think....and I was checking my phone every five minutes to see how my little guys were doing. It comes to something where you're taking your gloves off in 20C weather to take a pixelated cartoon character to the 25th floor in an elevator because he has a package for some other pixelated cartoon character