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My school showed me this video a while back and I still personally think it's a crock of stuff. It demonizes technology and innovation, something we should be encouraging.

Instead, we should focus on why people let technology consume their lives.

My school showed me this video a while back and I still personally think it's a crock of stuff. It demonizes technology and innovation, something we should be encouraging.

Instead, we should focus on why people let technology consume their lives.

I'm a social reject not many people want to hang out with me, plus i don't really wanna go outside.
« Last Edit: July 02, 2014, 04:21:52 AM by st8terblock »

I had to stop this early because honestly I think every word of it is bullstuff. It's been said before, but social media and internet should be held and considered as an extension of our social standings and interactions in real life, not a completely different division. I've got friends online who I'd have in real life if I happened to meet them, and I have friend in real life who I value in the same way. Just because we're not moving or active doesn't mean we're being 'dumb', we're just already caught up in something else. If you're talking with a friend on a bench and some random person sits down, do you stop talking to them and immediately strike up a conversation with the new person?

Christ, I don't get this worked up about much but this omega-rustles my jimmies. This is belligerent and mindless attacking of the concept that people can be social outside of physically meeting people. It sounds like some old man going on about his childhood "NyEEEh back in MY day we PLAYED with one another and RODE OUR BICYCLES and CLIMBED TREES and ATE DIRT and we LIKED IT".



Every word is complete bullstuff, social media is a way of connecting to other people. I use skype and it doesn't make me lonely, I am literally speaking to the person, I even have friends halfway across the world whom I skype.

His entire argument is based upon that there is no interaction with said person, that you're just typing text, you could destroy his entire argument if you bring video chatting into play

i have tons of friends and i'll have you know i met them all on a wonderful place called the INTERNET. we trade steam hats and games and talk about deep stuff like half life 3 speculation. it's been so amazing growing up with them watching them go from steam level 1 to level 22, wow does time fly! i'm never going to forget the amazing memories we've shared like the time we died on TF2 (AT THE SAME TIME XD). my friends and i share lots of things in common like um video games and dubstep music, we're practically the same person! they even watch my gaming stream so they saw/heard me so it's like they met me in real life too. i'm so glad to have made so many real wonderful friends on the internet!

We're not really a generation of smartphones are we?

We're not really a generation of smartphones are we?

I ain't a phone!

while i completely agree with the message i can't stand how forced the meter is

i mean yuck


I don't find this funny at all though every word in the video is BS


As an introvert, for him to say "you're being productive and present, not reserved or reclused" is incredibly loving offensive. I get he's trying to rhyme stuff, but being reserved is not harmful, its not a bad thing in society. It simply means I'm not shoving my entire personality at you when I talk to you, I restrain myself.

I get where he's coming from otherwise. At my dad's I live with him obviously but also my pre-teen half-sister, and we'll be sitting around the living room watching a show or something, and I'll be the only one really there. They'll be texting someone or looking around on Facebook, and there have been times where I've been completely ignored, a real person in real life for someone not even present.

Technology is a loving wonderful thing, especially for the more reserved of us who would rather communicate through something, because its simply easier for us. It can be detrimental, obviously, however technology lets you communicate even when you're alone, when your far away from people you love, etc.

Video just ended, "live life the real way" forget you I'll decide how I want to live my life. Unlike you apparently I can balance my stuff.