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Ten days and nights unplugged

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Re: Ten days and nights unplugged

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Post by lmm »

icebraining wrote: post #12
visakanv wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nathan Jurgenson wrote an interesting piece about how phones are a sort of microaggression- using it is a subtle act of protest against present company. It's a kind of shield, a buffer that says "I'm afraid to fully commit." The beautiful thing about Burning Man (I'm guessing- I've never been there) is that it's a self-selecting audience. And self-selecting audiences are the easiest to work with. Think about a comedi…

Nathan Jurgenson wrote an interesting piece about how phones are a sort of microaggression- using it is a subtle act of protest against present company. It's a kind of shield, a buffer that says "I'm afraid to fully commit." What I don't get is how that's totally acceptable even to otherwise educated people. From what I can remember, reading the paper or watching TV during a conversation was considered rude and often…

If your manservant brings a telegram during a soiree your guests expect you to pause to read it and respond. Someone casually reading their phone like a newspaper would I think deserve censure, but responding to an incoming notification feels acceptable.

Re: Ten days and nights unplugged

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Post by pertinhower »

Another astounding way to visit this ancient past is to talk to one of the billions of people who are over 30 and who perfectly remember that no one was this plugged in even a few short years ago, and many still aren't. Might want to take a compass while you explore these dusty roads.

Re: Ten days and nights unplugged

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Post by icoder »

aestra wrote: post #28

Every week my significant other and I and some of our friends go to bar trivia. Last week our friend brought a lady friend he had been dating for a few weeks and she brought her roommate. These two were quite a bit younger than us (I'm in my 30s), they were 21 or 22 at the oldest. The whole time they were glued to their phones, except when we were answering questions because you can't have your phones out while answe…

One can wonder if they act anti-social due to being glued to their phones, or whether they are like that from themselves and it just showed more obvious because of the phones.

Re: Ten days and nights unplugged

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Post by aestra »

andrew_gardener wrote: post #38
aestra wrote: post #28

Every week my significant other and I and some of our friends go to bar trivia. Last week our friend brought a lady friend he had been dating for a few weeks and she brought her roommate. These two were quite a bit younger than us (I'm in my 30s), they were 21 or 22 at the oldest. The whole time they were glued to their phones, except when we were answering questions because you can't have your phones out while answe…

You likely find it stressful since they are completely and totally ignoring you and not even trying to be polite or nice about it. Its one thing to be part of a conversation and not really contribute to it (but are at least paying attention and trying to absorb the information) and another to be "part" of a conversation and completely oblivious to said conversation. This has happened to me a lot in recent years and I…

I find stress to be a strange response though. Annoyance would be a more "expected" response. Stress is something I wouldn't expect because I associate stress with more of a "fight or flight" situation.

It's something I find interesting.

I also don't understand the point of going out and not participating, or fully participating. If I have someone in front of me, I find I owe them my full attention, anything else is rude. I also am finding it highly strange that it seems difficult for anyone just to sit quietly by themselves without anything to do for 10 minutes, I think its a product of our "always plugged in" lifestyle.

Re: Ten days and nights unplugged

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Post by JacksonGariety »

mittal wrote: post #3
JacksonGariety wrote: post #2

Every few months I tell myself I'll turn off the internet. I never do it.

Back when I used Windows I modified my hosts file to make facebook.com redirect to 127.0.0.1. That lasted for a few minutes.

Oh I've been doing that with techcrunch.com for almost a year.

Re: Ten days and nights unplugged

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Post by sliverstorm »

weland wrote: post #30
sliverstorm wrote: post #22

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The thought that someone would take the location I list on the Internet seriously didn't even cross my mind Firstly, Facebook is supposed to provide information about you . There's little point to providing information that is patently false. Why even waste the keystrokes? If you don't want a piece of information known, just omit it. Thus, people generally expect the information you provided is true. Secondly, I thin…

> Firstly, Facebook is supposed to provide information about you. I thought it was supposed to help me stay in touch with people and stuff, like they claim on their homepage. I'm adding false information related to my location to confuse their nosey advertising probe.

I thought it was supposed to help me stay in touch with people and stuff

I'm not really a FB fan or anything, but the idea is you stay in touch in part by providing that information about your life. Getting snippets of friend's ongoing lives helps sustain (or maybe just slow the decay of) rapport, even in their physical absence. If it was just a platform that allowed you to message your friends, it would be no different from an email list.

Re: Ten days and nights unplugged

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Post by technotony »

lmm wrote: post #41
icebraining wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nathan Jurgenson wrote an interesting piece about how phones are a sort of microaggression- using it is a subtle act of protest against present company. It's a kind of shield, a buffer that says "I'm afraid to fully commit." What I don't get is how that's totally acceptable even to otherwise educated people. From what I can remember, reading the paper or watching TV during a conversation was considered rude and often…

If your manservant brings a telegram during a soiree your guests expect you to pause to read it and respond. Someone casually reading their phone like a newspaper would I think deserve censure, but responding to an incoming notification feels acceptable.

I think if someone had a manservant bring him his phone following a notification, I might let him look at it too...
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