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artu
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posted February 27, 2014 09:54 PM |
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Salamandre said:
This is terrible. Every year I notice my students becoming even more idiots, the entire day their noses in the ipad. I lost any hope in humanity and pray for a 1 kb/hour speed.
You do realize you spend a whole lot of time here and if you had a tablet, the only difference would be doing it on the couch rather than a chair, so to an outsider, you would look exactly like those students with their nose on the ipad, right?
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posted February 27, 2014 09:59 PM |
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I'm pretty sure Sal isn't nose deep in HC while others try to talk to him, unless it's unsolicited that is. 
But I could just imagine him in the middle of a concert while the audience are waiting patiently, Sal gets his laptop up and starts browsing HC 
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posted February 27, 2014 10:00 PM |
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Absolutely not. When I am at computer (which has its own room), I am at computer and I have computer activity. When I go outside I am in the real world, no phone, no computer, available to any who wants to contact me. Personally.
I have internet at university, but it would never come to my mind to open, browse HC or other. I simply ignore it.
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posted February 27, 2014 10:02 PM |
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So, if someone wants to call you when you're out of the house, they can't reach you? Inconvenient.
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Salamandre
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posted February 27, 2014 10:04 PM |
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Why? I will find message when I get back. And for my job calls, it is not me who people contact, but my management guy.
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posted February 27, 2014 10:21 PM |
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Salamandre said:
it is not me who people contact, but my management guy.
Which incidentally also happens to be his actual name
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posted February 27, 2014 10:25 PM |
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Salamandre said:
Why? I will find message when I get back.
But then both they and you have to wait. If you have your phone, you can respond immediately, if you want.
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artu
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posted February 27, 2014 10:28 PM |
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Edited by artu at 22:29, 27 Feb 2014.
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Hmmm, I dont look into my phone's screen while I'm having a conversation either. I guess to our generation that will always be an act of "certified douchebag." But since these last years I hardly go out at all, the duality you talk about doesnt exist for me. If my phone rings while my friends are over, I answer. But I never speak long on the phone anyway. iPad and games is a different story, one person playing a game and the other one watching it is one of the things that you do with your friends together, as an activity.
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posted February 27, 2014 10:35 PM |
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Boy, I go to restaurant with friends. Believe me or not, if I don't set rules, I will be alone 2 hours on 3. People phone like mads.
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posted February 27, 2014 10:37 PM |
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Sounds like your friends aren't really interested in you. 
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posted February 27, 2014 10:44 PM |
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They become very interested just before the bill comes. When I pay.
No, seriously, people rate phone calls much higher in priority than talking to other. Look what you say: "he has to wait". Well, of course he has to wait, during 10000 years people had to wait an answer to a letter and the world didn't fall.
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posted February 27, 2014 10:56 PM |
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I'm younger than you, and all my friends have cell phones, and never in my life has a friend interrupted a conversation with me to make or take a phone call, unless it was really urgent (in which case I'm glad that they could do it). But often, when you're out of the house, you're not with anyone else, you're just going somewhere by yourself, so you wouldn't be interrupting any conversation by taking a call.
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artu
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posted February 27, 2014 11:06 PM |
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Considering he is a classical music pianist in Paris, who is kind of semi-famous, his friends may be more popular and social than yours, hence getting noticeably more calls.
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posted February 27, 2014 11:21 PM |
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Then they should put their phones on silent, if they'd prefer to talk to him. If they don't want to talk to him that much, then...
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posted February 28, 2014 12:58 AM |
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Edited by Corribus at 01:01, 28 Feb 2014.
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It amuses me when I go out to dinner and a family of four sits down next to me, and the whole meal goes by without them saying a single word to each other because they're all staring at their smart phones - even a bloody six year old. I have a smart phone, but it goes into my pocket on mute at meal time and does come back on until I leave the restaurant.
In all seriousness, part of the problem with having phones (and hence internet) with you all the time is that you rarely take the time to just sit and think about things. I find being connected all the time to be tiresome. Sometimes I'll just turn my phone off for hours at a time because I want to be introspective. Impossible to do that with ding-ding-ding messages all the time, facebook, youtube, email, blah blah blah. Face it, people are addicted to their handheld devices, and on balance they are worse off for it.
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posted February 28, 2014 01:03 AM |
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Yeah, I don't get what's up with using delicate items while eating? That's a very easy way to get them all greased up. Not to mention I think it's a bad habit that eating is not the main priority when eating.
Though I do remember lying on the coach watching tv with a bag of chips, so I can understand the charm in it, but only when alone.
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artu
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posted February 28, 2014 01:47 AM |
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Edited by artu at 02:07, 28 Feb 2014.
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I've read in one of the papers, the new generations that had the internet since they knew themselves feels the need to check it out every seven minutes. Don't know how credible that information was, but sometimes even when I'm watching a movie or reading something and if it's not very capturing, I find myself pausing or bookmarking the page and looking at Facebook or checking some game if my new tower is built etc etc... I rather have exclusive days rather than exclusive hours (like meal time or friend time) where I go completely Robinson.
Of course, one can also speculate that this is the new social norm and perception now and we are people with habits that are gradually getting obsolete. Like wearing a fedora hat when you go out, in the late 60's.
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posted February 28, 2014 07:46 AM |
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Corribus said:
In all seriousness, part of the problem with having phones (and hence internet) with you all the time is that you rarely take the time to just sit and think about things. I find being connected all the time to be tiresome. Sometimes I'll just turn my phone off for hours at a time because I want to be introspective. Impossible to do that with ding-ding-ding messages all the time, facebook, youtube, email, blah blah blah. Face it, people are addicted to their handheld devices, and on balance they are worse off for it.
Or, people just lack self-discipline. If it wasn't the Internet, the multimedia devices and whatnot, it would have been something else. It doesn't take much to delete your Facebook account (or never to create one, like me ) or to turn off the sound of your phone when you don't want to be bothered. Tech gadgets of all kinds are generally useful and convenient, addictions are entirely human phenomenon which just happens to manifest itself in the form of all kinds of e-obsessions these days.
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posted February 28, 2014 07:59 AM |
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Right, and suicides dropped to an all time low in the United Kingdom when they banned the gas ovens. They're never spiked back up.
There's an idiom in Finnish: "It's the opportunity that makes the thief."
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posted February 28, 2014 08:40 AM |
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A very convenient excuse, that's for sure.
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