I find it strange that as a person who is basically addicted to technology and only has friends on the internet, I still manage to hate technology and the influence it’s had on social interactions.
Tag: technology
sad story
friend did a crappy torrent of norton antivirus, the program successfully detected itself as a threat and deleted itself during a scan
…this is some greek tragedy level shit
Onetime my computer downloaded a virus antivirus program, and to get rid of it I downloaded a second one off the internet cause I was young and dumb. Long story short my computer froze for a month and finally boots back up and I found out that the two virus programs had actually killed each other in a sort of computer virus hunger games.
New show: bug wars. Viruses are added to an isolated machine where they fight it out for selfpropogative supremacy. Only one virus can win and their prize is being copied onto a memory stick and dropped in the atrium of a Trump building or security agency
Honestly the Baby Boomer/Millennial debate only exists because the generations are so different that it’s hard for them to understand each other. It’s a ridiculous debate, if everyone took a step back and actually listened to the other side, the entire mess would be done already.
It is not that insane to say that technology has had a negative impact on some things.
“Technology ruins social interactions” EXPLAIN WHY MY BEST FRIEND IS ON THE INTERNET, THEN, IT CAN’T POSSIBLY BE BECAUSE I CAN’T SOCIALIZE THAT WELL IN REAL LIFE, CAN IT?
I know the post was referring to in-person interaction, and I’ll be honest, I kinda feel like technology has had a negative aspect on some things, especially in regards to in-person interaction. I agree with that sentiment. (And I’m a very frequent user of technology. I think I’m addicted, honestly)
But people who say that also say online interactions aren’t as real. Firstly, I didn’t realize that seeing a face was necessary to exchange words. Writing is real, right?
Goddamn. I can’t stand the Millennial V. Baby Boomer debate, but anyone who trashes online interactions can die. Slowly.
I hate it when people say technology is taking away kids’ childhoods
If anything, it’s actually giving kids more of an opportunity to let their imagination outA lot of times when I let kids play on my phone, they go for the drawing app.
I watched a girl on the bus write a silly poem about her friends and then laugh as she made Siri read it
I hear children say to their friends “hey, FaceTime me later” because they still want to talk face to face even when they’re far away.
I see kids sitting, who would feel lonely and ignored if it weren’t for the fact that they’re texting their friends who are far away.
Children still climb trees. They might just take a selfie from the top to show off how high they’ve gotten.
They can immediately read the next book of their favorite series on their Kindles.
Most kids would still be up for a game of cops and robbers. Or maybe they’d google rules to another game they haven’t played yet.
When children wonder why the sky is blue, they don’t get an exasperated “I don’t know” from tired adults. They can go on Wikipedia and read about light waves and our atmosphere.
They show off the elaborate buildings they created on Minecraft.Technology isn’t ruining childhoods, it’s enhancing them.
Love this post so much to counteract much of the pessimism surrounding technology and kids. It’s not stealing kids’ innocence, just another means of expressing it. And so often do I hear that all kids do these days is “play on their phones” instead of doing other things, it’s starting to sound like a broken record. >.>
Heck, it reminds me of the first time our family got a computer; sure, I was on it all the time, but it afforded me a chance to talk more often with my best friend at the time. It filled in that boredom that would have otherwise been filled with TV and made me curious about the world.
my mom (who’s a baby boomer) loves watching me play Puzzle & Dragons on my 3DS and has said “I really would have liked that when I was a kid.”
Good post!
I really like this. Also, as a kid I use to love to play with Legos. Kids now are playing Minecraft. It does just as good for your imagination and building skills with out the mess!
^^^^
Videogames like MC really do help with creativity and such!!Dude, you can be a grown ass adult and still have fun being creative in MC.
Of course, I still play MC!!
OH AND I FORGOT Videogames seriously help kids learn to read. My brother (and mines) reading levels are so advanced since we’ve been playing games since we were really young. My lil bro was reading full sentences before he even went into Kindergarten.
Emergent behavior at its finest! XD
“And now we would like to demonstrate Watson, the latest in artificial intelligence. How are you, Watson?”
“Fuck off, dickass.”
So what? Let the machine swear. If you want it to be as intelligent as possible, it should know as much as it can.
Fuck’s sake, even AI is sheltered.*pounding on table* LET THE ROBOT SWEAR! LET THE ROBOT SWEAR!
Watson started saying “bullshit” instead of “false”
…which is one of my favorite things that has ever happened.
I too say bullshit when the thing doesn’t do what I want it to.
Emergent behavior at its finest! XD
“And now we would like to demonstrate Watson, the latest in artificial intelligence. How are you, Watson?”
“Fuck off, dickass.”
So what? Let the machine swear. If you want it to be as intelligent as possible, it should know as much as it can.
Fuck’s sake, even AI is sheltered.*pounding on table* LET THE ROBOT SWEAR! LET THE ROBOT SWEAR!
Watson started saying “bullshit” instead of “false”
…which is one of my favorite things that has ever happened.
I too say bullshit when the thing doesn’t do what I want it to.
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