I used to be with "it". Then they changed what "it" was.

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L4DANathan said:
I think Facetime is just the evolution of the phone call, except since you can see the other person's face, it's closer to emulating a face-to-face conversation.
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I'm surprised more people aren't using video calls. The Jetsons had it, 2001 had it, even Metropolis had it, and now we have it, so why isn't it more popular?

Jon Carter said:
Cinematic games.
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You mean like FMV games back in the '90s?

KevinCow said:
I don't understand how people can be satisfied using touchscreens for everything. Games, typing, web browsing... I hate using touch screens unless I'm on the go and it's the only option. They're just not nearly as accurate as buttons or a mouse.
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I much prefer a keyboard for typing and a mouse for browsing. I pretty much use my phone if I'm out of the house, or in the living room.
 
Fat4all said:
My nephew watches jacksepticeye.

I can't stomach the guy, I'm so confused.

where's my walker?
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My daughter has stumbled onto this guy a few times. I hate the channel but his "draw my life" was actually decent. There is another I think it's stampycat or something similar where his laugh makes you wanna choke someone. But he's actually pretty pg compared to jack so we let her watch stampycat.
 
Rhomega Beta said:
I'm surprised more people aren't using video calls. The Jetsons had it, 2001 had it, even Metropolis had it, and now we have it, so why isn't it more popular?
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People don't want to stare at each other while having a phone conversation. You gotta hold the phone up, you can't pick your nose in secret, you can't do stuff while talking, etc.
 
pswii60 said:
I don't get selfies and pouting. Seems so vain and attention seeking.
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I made selfies with film cameras all the time with girlfriends. What I don't get is the cultural obsession. It's not a new thing.

The pouting thing is...something I had to Google just now..and...

am-i-out-of-touch-no-its-the-children-who-are-wrong.jpg
 
I understand the appeal of Snapchat because I like sending and receiving photos, but what's wrong with MMS or iMessage? Is it because guys use it in the hopes that nudies will be forthcoming because of the temporary nature of it? Or am I missing something
 
Ive come to the conclusion that to a large extent I have to disingage with alot of modern society.

I dont mean find a ivory tower or anything but I just dont know why or how to participate with alot of current trends.

I hate mens fashion now. Fuck skinny anything. I have a pair of nuts and I like them to breathe. Thank you.


I have always hated taking pictures, I just dont have that look.
I am intensely private and like to keep work, family and friends compeletely seperate.
I dislike how social media has created an outrage culture.
I dont feel the need to be represented in every facet of life.
I dislike the idea of a cashless society

I could go on but the gist is that Im becoming a luddite of the highest order. Only thing I have no problem with anyone who likes the things I dont, I just dont want it pushed upon me.

So the best thing I can do, is jus disingage with it all and do my best not to offend people by not particpating.

Sounds silly but even something as silly as not wanting to be part of a group selfie can cause a argument in some situations.
 
Lime said:
People don't want to stare at each other while having a phone conversation. You gotta hold the phone up, you can't pick your nose in secret, you can't do stuff while talking, etc.
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I guess this explains why everyone stares at their phones instead of looking at each other during conversations IRL around the dinner table, too.
 
Mobile games. Fuck that shit.

Snapchat used to confuse me. If it's not important enough to keep (on, say, Instagram or Facebook) then why take a photo/video at all?

Then I realized... stop thinking about this so much. Just take pics and videos of random shit and share it with friends on Snapchat. Now I like Snapchat :)
 
Yeah, I know people who Snapchat everything, but it's just so much work to me... Open the app, take a pic (or vid), add annotations; ain't nobody got time for that.

I get that it's fun to send pics to friends and stuff, but it's just so much work to take pics of everything.
 
Rhomega Beta said:
I'm surprised more people aren't using video calls. The Jetsons had it, 2001 had it, even Metropolis had it, and now we have it, so why isn't it more popular?
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FaceTime is nice and I use it occasionally for family who live out of town, but there's not a lot of motivation to use it otherwise for personal use. Texting has replaced a lot of communication that would have been contained in phone calls in general, and then there's the issue of just not wanting to be watched when you're on the phone and not feeling like you have to be forced to watch the other person for a length of time. And it's gotten so easy to share pics and video with others that you can satisfy the "need" to see someone that way as well. Then you have the consideration of having to have a bit more of a controlled environment to video call, and that it simply takes more effort to do so. It's just not as convenient as text or audio-only and the motivations for using it can be rather specific.
 
Snap chat is fantastic. I love being able to share questionable things with my friends knowing they're gone in a day, and unlike Facebook where half my family would think I'm crazy, I can just blast things to a dozen different friends without doing group chats or a million different individual texts. It's the only social media where I can send cool shit to my friends and post them without thinking twice because of job or family friends like on fb

Also women are loose as fuck when exchanging snaps
 
SonicXtreme said:
Snap chat is fantastic. I love being able to share questionable things with my friends knowing they're gone in a day, and unlike Facebook where half my family would think I'm crazy, I can just blast things to a dozen different friends without doing group chats or a million different individual texts. It's the only social media where I can send cool shit to my friends and post them without thinking twice because of job or family friends like on fb

Also women are loose as fuck when exchanging snaps
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exactly. that's definitely the biggest advantage of snap chat over other social media platforms.
 
I think changes within entertainment medium such as song genre popularity (Synth rock->dubstep), technological breakthroughs (people starring at their phones [computer] all the time), and fashion change (big black rimmed glasses and flannel), are all expected and not exactly something I fight against. They have their purposes and reason for existing or re-surging. Personal, I think dubstep is fine, I use my phone a lot for games so stare at it quite a bit, and like the newest fashion.

What I don't get, is this shift in entertainment to screaming, annoying, fake as hell, whinny crybaby stuff that's just exploded in popularity.

Specifically, youtube 'stars', almost always LP'ers, that are popular but clearly just fake reacting to everything in a game and putting on a terrible acted over the top fake persona to do such with.

I just don't get it. I don't get the value in that entertainment. It's not funny, it's not innovative, it's just cringe city man.

Is this how old people feel when cartoons came on tv and their kids watched? It's like, this innate aversion to that content. Is it me, or is it the children that are wrong?
 
stilgar said:
Are unboxing videos already a thing of the past?
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We can only hope.

As far as various social media go, I think usage of whatever service is just based on whatever your friends are doing. So stuff like snapchat and instagram are just slightly newer and more novel than Facebook, so kids gravitate to them to differentiate themselves from older people who use Facebook. It's not really anything to do with how the services actually work, I think. They just want to have their own thing.

I don't care about any of it, and I'm really losing interest in Facebook. I also don't understand how people actually have time to keep up with a significant number of Twitterers, given how many tweets people are putting out these days.
 
Fb/insta/snap hierarchy goes like this for me:

Post on fb: family friendly generally, don't care if an employer or family member sees. Don't care if it stays forever.
Fb = PBS
Insta: cool photos I don't mind if are seen much later in time, a little more edgy since family and employers are rarer
Ista=cable network

Snapchat: the Wild West my son. Let's get as belligerent and saucy as possible. This is the only social media I will allow myself to use when wasted
Snapchat=ppv sex channel

As a result snapchat is by far the funniest/most entertaining. But some things just aren't meant to be viewed for more than a day
 
When trap music became popular mainstream I didn't get it either, but I just surmised it to me getting older rather than something wrong with the genre itself. Now I've heard a couple of decent songs (by more creative artists) that can be pretty entertaining and 'banging' as the kids say.
 
I used to be with "it" too. I used Aol Instant Messenger every day and had customized my profile page. Then I had a Myspace with custom HTML and a song playing, that had it's own message system. Then I moved on to Facebook that had its own IM app and everything AOL & Myspace had and more. It even introduced wifi calling and putting different friends into different groups so that you can easily choose what groups you want to see your post.
Each time I moved because technology was getting better and more streamlined.

Then they changed what "it" was. All the young people decided that convenience and centralized communication was stupid and decided they were much better off splitting all these features up between 5 or 6 apps, all with their own usernames and different friends lists.

I don't get it. Twitter is like a handicapped Facebook. Instagram is just an even more handicapped facebook. Snapchat is instagram if it was even worse. Vine is the exact same sort of shit. Line and whatsapp are just redundant to start with.
The only one of the above that offers something the slightest bit unique is Snapchat because it doesn't leave the pictures hanging around, in case you really want to make sure that youve wasted your time and that none of this vain embarrassing shit leaves any sort of mark on anything.
If you have a modern cell phone, a facebook account and maybe a snapchat if I'm generous, you can accomplish anything any of these other apps do.

It'll happen to you!
 
SillyNonsense said:
If you have a modern cell phone, a facebook account and maybe a snapchat if I'm generous, you can accomplish anything any of these other apps do.
It'll happen to you!
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I'm mostly with you, but I have found Twitter to be a great replacement for Google Reader. I use Facebook to follow my friends, and Twitter to follow all the websites I am interested in.
 
^instagram is nothing like Facebook in purpose. Honesty it's the best place on the Internet to search for certain types of pictures. #obscrurethingtattoos will bring up dozens of tattoos of things for example where if I type in "obscure thing tattoos" into google I'll get the same five images over and over and no unique content. So personally I can def say it's the best way to search for certain types of images because users use hashes appropriately and the search is effective. Just as an example I can find many more tattoos of specific video games by searching the hash on insta where as using google or other websites it would be clunky and I wouldn't find user content easily just a lot of mass posted things I'd have to hunt for.
Like from personal experience dark souls tattoos. I can find many more on insta than any other search I've found and if I like the artist I can even message them personally and easily. It's a great platform for artists in that way.

Whereas in fb a normal person is not posting any images that will be stumbled upon by random person they are not connected to.
 
SonicXtreme said:
^instagram is nothing like Facebook in purpose. Honesty it's the best place on the Internet to search for certain types of pictures. #obscrurethingtattoos will bring up dozens of tattoos of things for example where if I type in "obscure thing tattoos" into google I'll get the same five images over and over and no unique content. So personally I can def say it's the best way to search for certain types of images because users use hashes appropriately and the search is effective. Just as an example I can find many more tattoos of specific video games by searching the hash on insta where as using google or other websites it would be clunky and I wouldn't find user content easily just a lot of mass posted things I'd have to hunt for.
Like from personal experience dark souls tattoos. I can find many more on insta than any other search I've found and if I like the artist I can even message them personally and easily. It's a great platform for artists in that way.

Whereas in fb a normal person is not posting any images that will be stumbled upon by random person they are not connected to.
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Yeah, if you are looking for artwork etc, the gram can be a godsend.

I think its one thing to say you dont want to engage with these things, another to say they are useless.

The people who cant live without them clearly think differently.

I think after certain age you have just accept you cant keep up with everything and just focus on what works for you. No need to shit on another man (or womans ) thing. Its not for you and thats cool.
 
This happened to me in college. Just have up discussing the media side of the world and would talk about day to day stuff instead. Biggest thing was snapchat and selfie where I found it the most stupid thing ever. To this day, I think anyone who takes them is an idiot to some degree.
 
Whenever I'm looking up reference videos of games on youtube, I immediately close the window if I hear somebody's awful voice over footage of the game.

So I never really got on the boat with Twitch or streaming culture or let's plays.
 
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