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Once upon a time it was rude to look at your watch at certain events as it implied that you were bored or keen to get home.
The trick is to look at someone else's watch. Of course, today only old people like me wear a watch. Curses!
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Regarding photos: People our age only have a few childhood pictures, and they are warped by time on analog media. Those pictures of us as a kid look really old because they are naturally filtered. Soon people will wonder WTF old-pic filters are for, and some historian will have to explain why it's blurred and the colors are faded. Also why did people have clothes for each decade? Our kids, by contrast, have had pictu…
Looking back, I wish everyone had taken pictures of everyday life (probably with an Instamatic). Christmas pictures, awards, meh. What I really want are pictures of the halls in high school, street racing, parties with giant bonfires and beer.
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Once upon a time it was rude to look at your watch at certain events as it implied that you were bored or keen to get home.
The trick is to look at someone else's watch. Of course, today only old people like me wear a watch. Curses!
What I miss more than anything else is having an attention span. Years of abusing social media has left my brain pinballing all over the place. I am a collection of unfinished thoughts. Even as I write this, I can feel my mind needing to latch onto something new.
And then I collapsed your comment. It’s worse than I thought.
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She has not, but she's living with someone. I have not met him, but I can tell he's falling for the manipulation because I'm picking up my daughter from HIM most days instead of her (meaning, he's doing her dirtywork like driving our daughter places). She was the kind of person, if you weren't doing exactly what she wanted you to, you were a piece of shit. Once I realized what was going on (our early relationship was…
Man, so many similarities with my life. This were only clear once I was out of her sphere of influence and only then I was able to see the manipulation and gas-lighting. Now she tries to use our child as a manipulation tool, as that is the only aspect of my life that she has any input to.
The ex moved 45 mins away and insisted I pick up and drop off the child. When I started refusing, she just abandoned the kid at her mothers house, betting correctly that I would comply (which i had to).
We had a legal agreement at my ex's insistence that we wouldn't disparage each-other. Now and then I hear from my daughter how I'm a "bad daddy"-- I have never said a single bad thing about my ex to my kiddo despite her cheating, stealing money, using my family and lying to not only our friends and family but the police to get custody.
If you need support or anything, I'm happy to lend an ear.
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So I left one story out of my little rant-- which was my ex-wife would do exactly what you described. She would text and then if I hadn't responded in a few minutes she'd call the receptionist and/or my desk phone. It was infuriating because she rarely answered a text in less than a few hours. She said that it upset her when she couldn't reach me--and that's one of the reasons she's an ex-wife. Her go to manipulation…
I feel for you. It’s embarrassing, manipulative and soul crushing.
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I was expecting to read that article from mid-1800s or early 1900s lamenting how everyone just sits there in trains, public transports, etc. Just reading their newspapers and not paying attention to their surroundings or socializing. Well, it was a visual version. But if anyone has a link to the article I remember, I would appreciate it.
Not what you asked for, but a related XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1227/
I think there is definitely something I miss from the pre-smartphone era, and that is that the Internet was something akin to an appointment activity. You 'signed on' in the morning and maybe again after school or work. Logging into AIM was like broadcasting to your social circle that you were home and free to chat. You welcomed the instant messages, the interruptions, the socialization - because you knew you could s…
Im planning on getting an old-school non-smart phone to take with me sometimes, just to disconnect without being uncontactable for this reason.
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Is any of this backed by real facts or just your "kids these days" observations? Today's youth is better suited for dealing with smartphones and the overall connected world than we could ever be. All the people I know with real technological addiction problems (whether to smartphones, social media, scams, online radicalization or anything else) are like 45+.
I kind of think of this picture when people get a bit overzealous on blaming the phone for everything: https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-8e4223c6702a14f56c69c0...
"I bought solid products and I expected them to last more than a couple years. I didn't hear my friends say that for the environment, they changed their fridge only every 2 years and a half. I didn't like all the advertising in the street or on TV, but at least I was in peace at home. I could listen for a CD in my living room peacefully, without an add in between each song or even in the middle. I had heard about kids working in African mines, but what could I do about it? I didn't have an object in my pocket that has a direct impact on them, as well as on the pollution of my county's main river because of the chip manufacture. It's not that I absolutely need this object, it's that it is very convenient (and everybody has one anyways, and they make fun of me if I don't)."
Please a good writer make it sound more friendly :)