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Why the 21st Century is Making You Miserable

wade

wade

Save The Humans
Caz223 posted a link in another thread. I thought it was a great article so I’m bringing it up again. It is talking about us, the CS.com people. Makes you think.

http://www.cracked.com/article_15231_7-reasons-21st-century-making-you-miserable.html

Here are some quotes from the article:

So did we really need a study to tell us that more than 40 percent of what you say in an e-mail is misunderstood?

How many of your friends have you only spoken with online? If 40 percent of your personality has gotten lost in the text transition, do these people even really know you?


When someone speaks to you face-to-face, what percentage of the meaning is actually in the words, as opposed to the body language and tone of voice? Take a guess.

It’s 7 percent. The other 93 percent is nonverbal, according to studies.
I love sarcasm. Probably half of the jokes I write here are misunderstood.



I've been insulted lots, but I've been criticized very little. And don't ever confuse the two. An insult is just someone who hates you making a noise to indicate their hatred. A barking dog. Criticism is someone trying to help you, by telling you something about yourself that you were a little too comfortable not knowing.

Does this sound like some of the David threads?

Don't you hate stuff that makes you think?
 
I loved this article Wade especially the comment about drinking pabst all day and playing one handed video games, lol! I was one of those forum avoiders until about 7 years ago. I thought people who spent all day on-line were strange and needed friends. My kids are being raised with very little t.v and NO video games ever. I have blamed the downfall of society on technology for years now and actually wrote my graduate paper on this subject along with womens lib. The reason we as a society are so unhappy is because we have the time to be. There is a lot to said for civilizations with no plumbing, grocery stores, electricity, or other modern ammenities. I guess this thought occured to me as a sophmore in high school when I did a summer in Africa. You will never see or have the chance to meet such happy community oriented people until you go to a third world country. They have nothing and live in conditions we see as inhumane- yet they are happy, thankful, unselfish, and beautiful in ways that do not exist here. There were times like this in the states though most of us were not around for them and maybe we all should take a step back and analyze why modern civilizations with all the means are the most unhappy and disfunctional.
My opinion starts with the never ending technology boom and women leaving the home to work- not that women should never work don't take this the wrong way, but would kids be so insensitive, overindulged, selfish, rude, uneducated, and lazy if raised in a home where their efforts helped care for and feed themselves and family? We put a lot of effort on educating our children with fancy books, but do we make them cook, clean, cut firewood, grow their own food, or sew their own clothes? If we did social services would probably pay us a visit. Because of technology there is a whole generation that lacks these skills and because we are not home to teach our children some have never even boiled water until adulthood. We are raising helpless bratty do it for me kids who get to play all day and have their egos stroked. I hear kids say things these days that make me want to smack them, but to see their parents not even flinch really takes me there. My kids clean and do not get allowance they live here afterall, if they are disrespectful I have no problem pulling down their pants down and cracking their tushes, and they are expected to help me cook, do yard work, and whatever else I ask just because I asked. I can't believe parents allowing their children to tell them no or question why they should have to do something. Then you see 5 year olds with their own cell phones, ipods, and maids to clean their rooms for them and wonder why they can plan to blow up schools or be depressed- they have all the time in the world and no responsibilities to teach them appreciation. If you can't appreciate anything you can't care about anything either, and if you don't care then you don't learn how to do anything but complain and lack respect for everyone and everything else. If we limited the amount of technology ourselves and children used imagine all the time we would have to do things that actually matter? Imagine what we would learn about ourselves and pass on to others? Its too late to just take it all away now, but this article was dead on- we are a society with no real friends because we chose to indulge in semi social situations instead of the ones that build real character, bonds, and friendships.
 
Ummmm...... I know that transvestite in the picture...

But seriously. I agree with quite a few points in that. Especially the one that says "Texting is a" poopy "way to communicate". So is instant messaging and even the forums. Nothing beats the real life face to face interaction. There's so much you can tell about what a person is trying to say by their body language. I could type something like "Oh yeah, that Wade is just a hunksicle!", and be puking my guts out in real life. Sarcasm is something that can very rarely be read, and must be heard to be properly appreciated.
Are online friends substitutes for real friends? Not when you meet up with your online friends every now and then and do something together. Consider the reptile expos we go to. That's our chance to get in some real life face time with the people we "talk" to here. That's how I met Katie, Nanci, and Joe, and a few other people back in Denver. There's a difference between e-"friendships", and long distance friendships. There's a few people on here that, if I never met them in real life, I would still consider them a long distance friend.
 
wade said:
God, I'm blushing Robbie. Cut it out.
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Awww, you're no fun...

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