This phone commercial exemplifies everything wrong with this generation
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Mr.Wreckless
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Lol at this. Concerts are like 2 hours long. Oh, she is such an awful person for taking a minute or two to try and get a good picture so she can frame that moment forever.
vas_a_morir
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She's not a bad person. She's just overly concerned/worried with how to best use the experience to her advantage on Facebook, and it is getting in the way of actually enjoying what she is doing.
MrCookiepants
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Tell us why you're really mad.
That's actually true.
I can't believe the number of people who record in portrait mode. 😩
CaptainGyro
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Except she's not overly concerned, and it's not getting in the way of her enjoying the show. She clearly is enjoying the show at the end of the commercial , and the pic takes about 20 seconds. Seriously...It's ok to take your eyes off the live stage for a few seconds.. no really... it is. 20 seconds ain't shit, I've taken hits from bongs that last longer than that at a concert. She doesn't take "like half the song" trying to get the shot as you said in the OP. I don't know how you came up with the whole "She doesn't even like this fucking band, I bet. She's not there for the band." thing either
SomethingInTheSea
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Didn't you know that the only purpose of real life activities is to level up your facebook account?
Portrait orientation photos and videos can be great for artistic framing.
Zippedpinhead
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Since I became a father, I've noticed that many Many, people will record everything through their phone/tablet. Things like first steps, baby talk and eating solid foods for the first time seem like milestone events that you many want to share and send to people and family out of town.
THEN you get to see all the other things they record on their phones, concerts, speeches, parades, and Fireworks are just some of many things that I truly do not understand. Who wants to live their life watching it through a 4in phone screen? These are all events that may seem magical and amazing at the time, but are not events that you will rewatch year after year or need to "share" with you friends.
Who likes to live their life through a 4in phone screen? Not this guy.
THEN you get to see all the other things they record on their phones, concerts, speeches, parades, and Fireworks are just some of many things that I truly do not understand. Who wants to live their life watching it through a 4in phone screen? These are all events that may seem magical and amazing at the time, but are not events that you will rewatch year after year or need to "share" with you friends.
Who likes to live their life through a 4in phone screen? Not this guy.
fabricated backlash
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can't say that I can relate, as taking pics in a moshpit is kind of idiotic... but then again I guess I don't usually go to concerts where people stand around like freaking wax figures, more concerned about their hairdo than to enjoy the concert.
This is a great video.
And I feel ya, OP. I had to step back and take a look at my Facebook recently and realize that:
1) 90% of the posts that everyone else put up were "bragging" about their life, sometimes in such stereotypically trendy ways (e.g., picture of their feet while on the beach, etc.). They were posts that added zero value to my life. In fact, it seems like there was no intent behind them other than for someone else to "show off" in particularly unimaginative ways. In the rarer instances where people actually brought something of interest or value with their posts, the noise of all the worthless ones tended to drown out that signal.
And 2) Even though I tried to make a concerted effort not to do the above, I found that at least 50% of my own posts were guilty of the same. On those occasions where I tried to bring value to others with interesting information, requests for feedback, invites, etc., there would never be a ton of back-and-forth feedback/dialogue. Most of the times, people put in the bare minimum amount of effort and just "liked" the post or responded with a short, surface-level comment.
I don't know, maybe I have boring friends, but I would think they are at least a semi-accurate representation of the norm. I just started to realize that on a day-to-day basis, Facebook doesn't really add a lot of value to my life. A message board like this is actually more stimulating.
Whether others want to continue to use it in shallow ways doesn't bother me too much since I can opt out of that, but what bothers me more is when people's social skills or etiquette go out the window when they have their phone tied to them. I think that is part of what the OP is getting at; I see a lot of people not enjoying the "moment" as much or socializing with their immediate company because they feel inclined to check their phone for side-entertainment, conversations with people who aren't in front of them, etc. And make no mistake, it's all generations that are guilty of this from teenagers up to Baby Boomer middle management-types.
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