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Social Media and Mobile phone usage


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21 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Arent you in your thirties? I'd probably consider you 'this generation' if you are. When I think of generations I probably consider 20-40 the generation of the day.

People who grew up pre-internet tend to be different from people who grew up with it, in my opinion.

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There's a difference between people who still had dial-up when they we're growing up and people who grew up with high speed internet. I was like 11 or 12 when high-speed became a very common thing and then very soon after smartphones started having fast internet capacity. Born in the early to mid 90's is the real internet age, I would say, or 2.0 if you will, I don't know.

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58 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Arent you in your thirties? I'd probably consider you 'this generation' if you are. When I think of generations I probably consider 20-40 the generation of the day.

As Tony said it's more about the tech you grew up with. 

 

I didn't have a phone until I was 20, didn't have broadband or anything like it until probably mid 20s. I played out when I was a kid, didn't have social media pressures when I was in adolescence or just starting to go on nights out, or have Wikipedia when I was studying for exams.

 

Regardless of age there's definitely a powerful, discernable difference between them and 'us'.

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I am a bit addicted to the internet, instead of reading a book to fall asleep I often ‘read’ my phone. Bad I know and I do make an effort to actually read a book because I know I tend to have a better sleep. 

I use Facebook less and less and have never had Twitter. 

I was out the other weekend at a National Trust garden and there were loads of families out enjoying the sunshine. I turned to my husband and said ‘how nice not everyone is stuck at home with their x boxes’

My friend de-activated her Facebook account because she said she got really anxious if no-one liked her posts and feels a lot better for it. We are in our early 50’s. 

I’m so glad I grew up without social media because I’ve heard from people at work in their late 20’s how inadequate they’ve felt after comparing their lives to others especially when they became new mothers.

So although I am addicted myself I’m not obsessed if that makes sense. I think the internet is great ( I love researching holidays etc) but social media can often have a dark side.

 

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1 hour ago, 3 Stacks said:

There's a difference between people who still had dial-up when they we're growing up and people who grew up with high speed internet. I was like 11 or 12 when high-speed became a very common thing and then very soon after smartphones started having fast internet capacity. Born in the early to mid 90's is the real internet age, I would say, or 2.0 if you will, I don't know.

At uni it'd take about five minutes to download a 10 second porn clip, then you could only fit about eight on a floppy disk. Then I'd take them home and splice them all together on Windows movie maker.

 

Kids today dont have that kind of make do and mend approach, they get everything handed to them on a plate. 

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11 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

At uni it'd take about five minutes to download a 10 second porn clip, then you could only fit about eight on a floppy disk. Then I'd take them home and splice them all together on Windows movie maker.

 

Kids today dont have that kind of make do and mend approach, they get everything handed to them on a plate. 

Haha can you imagine what they'll be whinging about for kids having it easy in 100 years time? When I were a lad, if I wanted interactive porn on the spunkbuster 4000, with the pornstar of my choice, she wouldn't even do triple insertions and it was in black and white, kids have it easy nowadays!

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9 minutes ago, Remmie said:

Haha can you imagine what they'll be whinging about for kids having it easy in 100 years time? When I were a lad, if I wanted interactive porn on the spunkbuster 4000, with the pornstar of my choice, she wouldn't even do triple insertions and it was in black and white, kids have it easy nowadays!

 

To be fair to the people from the future, black and white sounds pretty disappointing.

A proper hardship.  

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2 hours ago, VladimirIlyich said:

What age would you consider the internet age then,Tony?

As 3 Stacks said, born in the early 90s onwards. In other words, people who are not old enough to remember a time when we didn’t have mobile phones and the internet, or at least when they weren’t mainstream.

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1 hour ago, TheHowieLama said:

Spot on about the boredom thing -- for kids now, everything has to be an EVENT.

 

When were younger, in the evening you could just go to the back of the park with a six pack and a j.

You didn't want to be seen. Much less recognized.

 

Hedgeporn. Halcyon days. 

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2 hours ago, Section_31 said:

As Tony said it's more about the tech you grew up with. 

 

I didn't have a phone until I was 20, didn't have broadband or anything like it until probably mid 20s. I played out when I was a kid, didn't have social media pressures when I was in adolescence or just starting to go on nights out, or have Wikipedia when I was studying for exams.

 

Regardless of age there's definitely a powerful, discernable difference between them and 'us'.

Fair point. Its not really something I've pinpointed previously but I bow to your better understanding. My kids are late twenties and early thirties so I'd probably consider them the early internet generation.

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I recognised I had an issue with Facebook when I found myself with it open on my phone and the computer I was using at the same time.  I deleted it and felt better for it.  I like to pretend this makes me better than facebook mongs but I still have an instagram, 2 twitters (one personal and professional) am here loads and other messageboards etc.  I'd hate to see how many times a day I unlock my phone or how much time I spend using it. 

 

I'm making a huge effort to not look at it when infantD is around as she shouldn't have to fight for attention from her dad over you dickheads, or a video of a hydraulic press crushing a watermelon. 

 

The instant gratification of social media is rewiring everyone's brains.  You see it in kids in school who write two words and then instantly require feedback on it, if they'd posted a picture on tiktok they'd have likes and approval in seconds.  

 

It's horrible. 

 

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Not so much my phone, which I don't use, as it is my tablet.

 

I take it everywhere with me. I'm on here, a tv forum, a boxing forum and I have a Facebook account I use once every 6 weeks. I also have 3 or 4 journalists whose Twitter accounts I check daily, although don't have an account myself. I use the tablet to read articles, listen to audio books, podcasts and buy things, so it never seems to me like I'm overdoing it, but objectively it is excessive.

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Never had a mobile phone and never will.

 

There are times I wish I had one, and i'ts getting harder to function in today's society without one, but I like being disconnected and unavailable (or shall I say focused and engaged).

 

Mrs. Neko is the same, but she has one at work.

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4 minutes ago, neko said:

Never had a mobile phone and never will.

 

There are times I wish I had one, and i'ts getting harder to function in today's society without one, but I like being disconnected and unavailable (or shall I say focused and engaged).

 

Mrs. Neko is the same, but she has one at work.

Robinson Crusoe over here 

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