The other day, I was on a chat and thinking about how boring it was compared to when it first came out. Then I realized, when chat first came out, my friends and I used in such a funny way.
I got access to chat in college, back when we had to go to the computer lab to access it. Sometimes I'd see my friends on Unix and discover we were at different labs on campus. Then we'd message each other to come to the same lab so we could hang out and chat together with other people. I thought it was interesting how when chat first came out, we used it in a more socially interactive way. It was almost like going to the movies together.
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WhatsApp and zoom were a lifeline connection for my family during the 2020 pandemic like so many others. We literally held large group chats and would eat together sometimes( those in similar timezones). We would have game day/night, karaoke/silly dance- offs and soul to soul chats. All depending on availability because of the different time zones from Canada, USA, UK and sometimes even the Middle East and Africa. My cousin in Seattle is a great entertainer so he would constantly make us have a blast on the video chats. Fri,Sat and Sunday we enjoyed each other for an hour or two.
As for my friends, besides chatting we would send each other video recordings back n forth. Also, my youngest sister would constantly send me hilarious secret recorded footage of my mom or stepdad. I call her paparazzi cuz she will catch you when you least expect it and then send it to you....
Oh yeah, that's the most interesting thing about technology these days. I remember in the '80s, sending letters and pictures to our relatives by international mail and maybe making a phone call for a few minutes once is a blue moon because it was so expensive. Now I can chat with them whenever I feel like it. I think I'd be more fluent in my native language if I grew up in this generation.
I don't miss the letters and pictures actually. I don't even have them anymore. There's some things about technology I don't like, but there are things that I do. So I guess it's a mix bag.
I’m in the same boat as you! I’m in Canada and have friends / family around the world. Just curious, when you made voice calls outside of Canada and the US using what’s app, was it free? I want to call someone in Brazil but I’m scared I’ll get charged. We text on what’s app but I’ve never suggested a call. Thanks
Well I've had phone calls in London, Paris, Italy, Netherlands, a few American states, Saudia Arabia, Jordon, Somalia, Kenya, 3 Canadian cities and never saw charges.....so u should be fine
I took a long break from video games after the Nintendo Game Cube. When I got back to it, the Xbox had so many buttons on the controller, I didn't know what I was doing. 😆
When I was given my first computer (you know, the one that looks like a fifties tv), I wasn’t impressed. Then seven/8 years ago I was given a Dell, flat screen. I still wasn’t impressed cause the gifter didn’t teach me how it could open my world. It was just another dust collector. I would walk by it and it would whine….feed me. Lol Then I received my first taste of an iPad…loaner. I didn’t have to put on my best attire to operate it. Liked it, much. Got a new one. Loved it! Broke that one and almost had to go to the ER cause I was so freaked! To think 🤔, that 40 years ago I said…I’ll never be glued to a screen. It has opened my world and Im pretty much thankful for that. Although, I still need to learn how to cut and paste. When I do, watch out world!
The cell phone really is a workhorse. I don’t need one unless I’m out for any length of time, which is rare, so I don’t own one. I won’t be glued to another screen. 😂 If I break down on the road, I’ll wait for someone to stop and I’ll use theirs. People are still nice like that. 😇
Hahaha-cut and paste! My daughter and I have an inside joke about that!! It's been umpteenth years and I can only manage to do it maybe twice out of 10 times!! Lol. I'feel like a dinosaur when it comes to technology. I don't know-it's like there is some sort of BLOCK in my head that prevents me from learning everything. But I'm ok. I am able to do what I need to do. ( MOST times).! 😁
My family was all about computers. The Microsoft 🖥 was not out yet. So my father took our black and white 📺 😠 and built a bios and pc from scratch. He never shared it with us. My brother got an apple ii (I think) and learned basic and pascal which eventually led to a phd. We played either zork or Zelda... One of those text only adventure games. And pong. No Atari for us. When I got to college (late) I studied photography which was all film. I was the first one in my 🏫 to start combining 🖥 and old 📷 techniques. I made computer based designs on transparency ( almost broke the printer) and used the as negatives for an old technique meets 🖥 called gum bichromate. My thesis postcard was a digital collage of photo and text. Majority of my experience with photography has been about embracing new tech and combining old methods, materials or styles. I’m not done great artist btw. I just like it.
Photography was a hobby of mine. But I do miss the days of sitting outside and waiting for just the right shot. Now it's more about getting a shot and fixing it up.
Yep! For a while debating analog vs digital was a heated thing. I think They have their place for the exact reason. Analog requires you to slow down and think but at the same time you have to know what focal length is do you can use it quickly. Digital is very freeing. To create a bw photo I visualize it but take it in color. Photoshop lets me modify the mood of bw in ways the darkroom can’t. I like manipulating bw that way.
I always remember the anticipation of getting a letter from someone whether good news or bad. I remember awaiting mail from Germany seeing how his family is. Nowadays we can get the news sooner. But with keyboards on phones words are auto corrected or misspelled makes some texts or emails hilarious sometimes. I've had my share of "autocorrected" words.
Would it not be nice, if we had NO technology, just talk to people face to face, go into a bank and actually talk to someone behind the counter, not provide endless security numbers and passwords, which rule the whole of world's society, just be able to talk to someone in the street, not see stupid people with their earphones, talking to little rectangular boxes in their hands, look at large rectangular boxes in your house, and take EVERYTHING that is said or 'uttered' from these contraptions as iron cast truth, NEVER disagree with ANYTHING uttered by it![All praise to the TV!] CGI graphics rule no decent films shown! Try to walk down the street, metal clad vehicles roaring past, fumes etc, you want quietness.... forget it🥴 And they worry about climate change .... Forget it! it's to late! Man's reign has finished trying to fight nature with technology, nature will ALWAYS win EVENTUALLY! That may not be funny but its realistic, and I wish more people would realise that! {probably will not be shown, but in some attic file someone MIGHT see this somewhere?}🥴👍
Not sure what you mean. Tech for me means I can work anywhere within a reasonable timezone. You are not complaining about the tech. You are complaining about choices. Electric cars are quiet. I feel bad for anyone who can't find a good new movie that isn't CGI. There are plenty. Climate change is caused by mismanagement not by the existence of tech. We don't need most of the consumer goods that are produced using CO2 emitting processes. Don't underestimate though. Communities can survive without global leadership dependence. It is happening right now. Rising seas are a done deal. There is nothing that can be done to stop it... except learn how to live with it instead. Communities and countries that can make that paradigm shift will survive.BTW... we are a part of nature.
No I do not like TECHNOLOGY people rely on it to much take it for granted. Climate change is caused by people cutting corners, communication to world wide 'pinpoints' are made available by technology, privacy now is at a bare minimum from technology, [Big Brother is over EVERYONES shoulder, thanks to TECHNOLOGY] common curtesy to everyone, are now at a bare minimum, taken for granted that civility is non-existent. If you don't have a mobile phone, you can be fined, lack of security, this world is for the younger generation, if you cannot keep up with their 'standards' and TECHNOLOGY or even make an attempt to try to keep up with them, forget it🥴you're lost! Technology costs money, and its "improvement and speed" is lubricated by EVERYONE whether you like it or not! Mid town shops, empty due to technology! Banks with public tellers, failing like packs of cards! The new technology has to be updated, that is a major cause in climate change in itself! What happens to redundant 'technology' the amount of plastic [and old car batteries] in that 🙄"We don't need most of the consumer goods that are produced using CO2 emitting processes." We rely on these consumer goods indirectly supplied via technological processes! We are looking for ways to break down plastic for recycling this world's technology is mostly made up of ...PLASTIC!🥴🥴🥴i-phones, laptops, cars, drone's, tv's, mobile phones, double glazing, micro-wave ovens, ATM's etc, etc. I think I will go and buy a retirement home in the Everest foothills🤔
The problem with your theory is it is too simple. You use the word technology to describe everything you don’t like. In that respect the printing press is technology.
To parrot someone else… the ability for people with rare chronic disease to compare notes on Facebook groups is wonderful. What Meta also does is collect data about us for free without paying us and then turn it around to manipulate us. Majority of excesses such as plastic is due to profit. The need is created through marketing not because we actually need it. The whole recycling number system is all marketing to make people feel better about using so much plastic. Your not wrong about shortcuts but neither am I. You could do a dissertation on plastic recycling as I’m sure someone has. Side note… my mobile devices and mostly aluminum not plastic. They will break them down and reuse most of when I am done.
Now I have given you several examples where the same technology can be life saving and harmful. Just like gun powder. If you don’t like tech why are we even chatting? You have that option. Wishing it on everyone else…not gonna happen.
What were you fined for? That makes no sense whatsoever. My mother is 87 on her 2nd iPad. In fact tablets are fantastic for elderly to keep up with family. On the flip side I know people who choose old fashioned dumb phones. Me thinks doth protests too much.
Ok! Now the Climate Change Conference has finished just in time now we can get to the 'technology' I meant, advertised in the various christmas adverts and Black Friday as well, that is the useless technology I meant! Those people affected by climate change will not of course be able to afford it!🥴🥴
I don’t know what technology you are talking about. Smart phones may seem like an expensive toy to you. For people who can afford a laptop it is an important necessity. You can do most things on a smart phone that you can do on a laptop for a fraction of the price and space. Smart phones have been extremely important for communicating adverse events of all kinds.
I might as well explain, I am a 20th century man, very much so, a retired genealogist/historian, even writing a true crime book about 19th century serial murderers, I cannot accept 21st century values, abhorring 21st century society, I should have been born a century earlier, I am terrified of technological 'breakthroughs', horrified at what could be the long term side effects of them? Practically now an outsider, too long in the tooth for my values to change! My thrill now is to research history to learn from mistranslated historical events, thus my book which is rapidly turning out to be a major work! Ultimately to emigrate from what is now termed UK whom I see is now being enveloped into another state of USA!
Computers were invented in the middle of the 20th century. You seem to do fine on this site which is a very difficult site to use. The terrifying developments are based on existing technology. Social engineering is scary. But all those things like cancelling people, racism, conspiracy theories, mean gossiping, social manipulation are not new at all. They are more in view and faster. I can list a zillion examples if you want but I suspect I would be preaching to the choir.
I know people in their 40s who don’t get the “new” tech. Not really alone.
I barely ever used the computer. I only learned bare minimum for my job. In 2010, without even knowing how to email I announced I'm going back to school on line. My family laughed.... seriously??? They said. Well that made me determined.
Now I'm all set up with a new computer and desk and everything I need to get rolling.
First day my mouse doesn't work. I'm looking for a plug to see if it's plugged in. I had no clue the thing was attached to the computer. I flipped out put a 911 to my family. Lots of trouble shooting going on. Then my daughter said, is it turned on? What do you mean? She said there's an on off button on the bottom. Lmao.... oops
not so much about technology but our can opener broke last week so my Mrs bought a new one I tried for ages trying to open a can of sweetcorn couldn`t do it at first took me ages.a week later my Mrs still can`t open with it so I bought an old style metal one for her.
If that is the kind that cuts the side it is well worth learning. I love that i can use the top as a lid. I think electric ones are a waste of money unless you are a prep cook.
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