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 Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 9:21 am
Extuis I remember,when i was four back in 2000 i would go outside and play with my sister on our 'bikes' [tricycles] and just run around and act like morons. But then we had to move when a man was killed rather grusomely i might add and that is why we had to move. After we moved we rarely went outside,and want to know why? Besides the new tech of 2004,we couldn't go outside because of the temp. It was 90*F almost all the time,and the hottest it got in Winter was 76*F,it was horrible. And we had nothing to do but play on the Xbox all day long and do homework.
Not only that,but as i grew up into my teenage years i saw that more and more kids were becoming addicted with those IPhones and PSPs and all this crap. And whats worst,no one ever goes outside anymore mainly because of the heat. I feel that kids these days have more free time then normal and have become more addicted to video games then ever before. There must be limits on the amount of tech being produced in the US!
But I will be more strict when my daughter gets older. She does not need to do what I did. It cost me a good bit of friends, even though they were not all that loyal. But there is definitly more to life than video games and the such.
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Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 9:28 am
Chieftain Twilight too much electronic media is unhealthy and unproductive. i have a huge problem with gen-x and it's convenience-over-efficiency ideals. i remember Earth Day last year. that whole 1-day-without electricity pledge. disney channel ripped it off with a 1-hour version, which if you know your Geography and understand the concept of Time Zones you would know doesn't do anything. what's worse, is when i went to church a few days before to tell people about Earth Day, and talked about both of these versions of it, hardly anyone even knew about it. and when i explained it to them, none of them were interested. in fact, one boy did talk about it with me, sort of, but he was truely and honestly terrified by the idea of even going on a camping trip for one day without an electronic device, r even of going a single hour without his iphone. his eyes went wide and everything! gonk it is sad. sad i realy hate to see people encouraging their children not to be practical and responcible hard workers. i have taken a liking to that show, World's Strictest Parents, even if i don't nessesarilly agree fundamentally with the rules of those households, only because i support the values that those households teach to otherwise spoiled teen brats. i am glad to know that Hot Topic is advertising it as well.
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Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 7:11 pm
Aakosir Chieftain Twilight Aakosir Chieftain Twilight Shadows-shine Chieftain Twilight i just think we need a better handle on our obsessive behaviors, and need to stop focusing on the "convenience before efficiency" bullshit. >.> hard work is valued where i'm from! Most definitely. I was raised to value hard work and that if you want or need some thing, you need and have to work for it. There was no such thing as instant satisfaction when I was growing up and that is what I am teaching my kid as well. when i was in ohio, i was actually ridiculed for favouring hand-washing dishes to using a dishwasher. >.> it was apparrently frowned upon there to do things "the hard way", when you can blow 1000 dollars on some mechanical piece of junk that doesn't even get the food off. o.O; yer man is odd.... is he a northerner? a hillbilly and a yankee. xd joy. leastways yer an awesome person.
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Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 7:14 pm
Aakosir Chieftain Twilight too much electronic media is unhealthy and unproductive. i have a huge problem with gen-x and it's convenience-over-efficiency ideals. i remember Earth Day last year. that whole 1-day-without electricity pledge. disney channel ripped it off with a 1-hour version, which if you know your Geography and understand the concept of Time Zones you would know doesn't do anything. what's worse, is when i went to church a few days before to tell people about Earth Day, and talked about both of these versions of it, hardly anyone even knew about it. and when i explained it to them, none of them were interested. in fact, one boy did talk about it with me, sort of, but he was truely and honestly terrified by the idea of even going on a camping trip for one day without an electronic device, r even of going a single hour without his iphone. his eyes went wide and everything! gonk it is sad. sad i realy hate to see people encouraging their children not to be practical and responcible hard workers. i have taken a liking to that show, World's Strictest Parents, even if i don't nessesarilly agree fundamentally with the rules of those households, only because i support the values that those households teach to otherwise spoiled teen brats. i am glad to know that Hot Topic is advertising it as well. yeh, it would be tough on some people, thanks to the way society has adopted technology as nessesary. same way that not having a credit card is as tough as having one.
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Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 11:31 am
Chieftain Twilight Aakosir Chieftain Twilight Aakosir Chieftain Twilight when i was in ohio, i was actually ridiculed for favouring hand-washing dishes to using a dishwasher. >.> it was apparrently frowned upon there to do things "the hard way", when you can blow 1000 dollars on some mechanical piece of junk that doesn't even get the food off. o.O; yer man is odd.... is he a northerner? a hillbilly and a yankee. xd joy. leastways yer an awesome person.
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Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 11:34 am
Chieftain Twilight Aakosir Chieftain Twilight too much electronic media is unhealthy and unproductive. i have a huge problem with gen-x and it's convenience-over-efficiency ideals. i remember Earth Day last year. that whole 1-day-without electricity pledge. disney channel ripped it off with a 1-hour version, which if you know your Geography and understand the concept of Time Zones you would know doesn't do anything. what's worse, is when i went to church a few days before to tell people about Earth Day, and talked about both of these versions of it, hardly anyone even knew about it. and when i explained it to them, none of them were interested. in fact, one boy did talk about it with me, sort of, but he was truely and honestly terrified by the idea of even going on a camping trip for one day without an electronic device, r even of going a single hour without his iphone. his eyes went wide and everything! gonk it is sad. sad i realy hate to see people encouraging their children not to be practical and responcible hard workers. i have taken a liking to that show, World's Strictest Parents, even if i don't nessesarilly agree fundamentally with the rules of those households, only because i support the values that those households teach to otherwise spoiled teen brats. i am glad to know that Hot Topic is advertising it as well. yeh, it would be tough on some people, thanks to the way society has adopted technology as nessesary. same way that not having a credit card is as tough as having one.
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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 4:35 pm
Its crazy how dependent and unseprable we've become to technology. Most of the kids in my grade spend all there free time indoors playing video games. When we finally hang out, we spend more time texting others then talking to each other. Most kids my age think the only way to find the defenition of a word is to look it up on-line. I know its not completely there fault, but I think school is partially to blame. Most writing assignments are required to be typed. Which gets us on the computer. Which then leads to Facebook. The teachers even seem too obsorbed in technology. In the Tech Ed. class at my school, instead of designing the project and then building it, were putting it in a machine, and telling the machine to carve it for us. Sorry, I just realized how much I sound like I'm ranting.
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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 4:58 pm
It’s a breakthrough that could eventually end the controversy over the scientific use of embryos: Chinese scientists have reprogrammed skin cells from a mouse to act like stem cells, then grown those cells into entire, living mice. It’s not the first time scientists have been able to turn adult cells back into stem cells, which are like a biological “blank check” that can develop into any kind of tissue, including blood cells, liver cells, and nerve cells.
"The Week: The Best of the U.S. and International
Volume 10 Issue 479-480
http://theweek.com/article/index/99317/health-038-science-turning-skin-cells-into-a-mouse
For those who have subsciption toThe Week, you can find the rest of the article at the above web address.
I brought this up because I was thinking, if they can grow a mouse, couldn't they recreate an enviroment identical to that of a woman"s womb?
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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 7:35 pm
Aakosir Chieftain Twilight Aakosir Chieftain Twilight too much electronic media is unhealthy and unproductive. i have a huge problem with gen-x and it's convenience-over-efficiency ideals. i remember Earth Day last year. that whole 1-day-without electricity pledge. disney channel ripped it off with a 1-hour version, which if you know your Geography and understand the concept of Time Zones you would know doesn't do anything. what's worse, is when i went to church a few days before to tell people about Earth Day, and talked about both of these versions of it, hardly anyone even knew about it. and when i explained it to them, none of them were interested. in fact, one boy did talk about it with me, sort of, but he was truely and honestly terrified by the idea of even going on a camping trip for one day without an electronic device, r even of going a single hour without his iphone. his eyes went wide and everything! gonk it is sad. sad i realy hate to see people encouraging their children not to be practical and responcible hard workers. i have taken a liking to that show, World's Strictest Parents, even if i don't nessesarilly agree fundamentally with the rules of those households, only because i support the values that those households teach to otherwise spoiled teen brats. i am glad to know that Hot Topic is advertising it as well. yeh, it would be tough on some people, thanks to the way society has adopted technology as nessesary. same way that not having a credit card is as tough as having one. thing for me, i keep getting credit cards issued to me. i took one back before that whole Credit Act was passed, and turns out the scam was in the way they changed up their contract with me without warning. xp
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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 10:41 pm
Technology has had both positive and negative opinions from the beginning of time. There is a point, a very fine line, when enough is too much (I'm looking at YOU, Apple), but for the most part, getting children introduced to technology is just the way of the world today.
Schools are using computers more and more, and there are more techie jobs out there now than 10-15 years ago. And things like Smartphones are just ways to increase the ease of access to social lives, and a huge asset to the business world.
Parents today come from a generation where the most awesome thing was the Nintendo Entertainment System, in all it's 8 bit glory. Some even experimented with the first Commador 64s, and their parents probably thought the same thing. So outside more, you'll melt your brain, etc, etc.
Also, I noticed post about being driven away from playing outside because of some hot weather. Brother, I'll be frank, I live in Louisiana, and this summer was filled to the brim in days with a high no less than 91* F. And kids of all ages were still out playing and having fun. If that heat if impairing your ability to level your technological morals out, then get a sprinkler.
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Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 12:36 pm
Evil By Name Technology has had both positive and negative opinions from the beginning of time. There is a point, a very fine line, when enough is too much (I'm looking at YOU, Apple), but for the most part, getting children introduced to technology is just the way of the world today. Schools are using computers more and more, and there are more techie jobs out there now than 10-15 years ago. And things like Smartphones are just ways to increase the ease of access to social lives, and a huge asset to the business world. Parents today come from a generation where the most awesome thing was the Nintendo Entertainment System, in all it's 8 bit glory. Some even experimented with the first Commador 64s, and their parents probably thought the same thing. So outside more, you'll melt your brain, etc, etc. Also, I noticed post about being driven away from playing outside because of some hot weather. Brother, I'll be frank, I live in Louisiana, and this summer was filled to the brim in days with a high no less than 91* F. And kids of all ages were still out playing and having fun. If that heat if impairing your ability to level your technological morals out, then get a sprinkler.
You say all the smartphones help with social life? Or are they really a way to make others jealous and angry? I say that because people always are bragging on FB about things. And a specific friend always bitches about everything not going her way, even though she is 20 and has never had a job. Her parents pay for everything. EVERYTHING! Car, car insurance, phone, gas, food, internet, school, clothes, make up, et cetera. She is the most ungrateful moocher ever. She always is updating her FB with her most recent bitchfest... This makes me very very angry. I am really close to deleting her.
Also, there are people who are very happy and post "I love my boyfriend" just about everyday, send baby talk back and forth, and then break up the next week and all you get it "life sucks" "FML" "I stubbed my toe, damn you {insert Ex's name here}" Maybe all my friends are just really immature, but this seems to be all my news feed shows...
What happened to people writing hand-written letters? Hand-written cards? Pictures in the mail? I think we are taking technology for granted.
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Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 12:39 pm
Chieftain Twilight Aakosir Chieftain Twilight Aakosir Chieftain Twilight too much electronic media is unhealthy and unproductive. i have a huge problem with gen-x and it's convenience-over-efficiency ideals. i remember Earth Day last year. that whole 1-day-without electricity pledge. disney channel ripped it off with a 1-hour version, which if you know your Geography and understand the concept of Time Zones you would know doesn't do anything. what's worse, is when i went to church a few days before to tell people about Earth Day, and talked about both of these versions of it, hardly anyone even knew about it. and when i explained it to them, none of them were interested. in fact, one boy did talk about it with me, sort of, but he was truely and honestly terrified by the idea of even going on a camping trip for one day without an electronic device, r even of going a single hour without his iphone. his eyes went wide and everything! gonk it is sad. sad i realy hate to see people encouraging their children not to be practical and responcible hard workers. i have taken a liking to that show, World's Strictest Parents, even if i don't nessesarilly agree fundamentally with the rules of those households, only because i support the values that those households teach to otherwise spoiled teen brats. i am glad to know that Hot Topic is advertising it as well. yeh, it would be tough on some people, thanks to the way society has adopted technology as nessesary. same way that not having a credit card is as tough as having one. thing for me, i keep getting credit cards issued to me. i took one back before that whole Credit Act was passed, and turns out the scam was in the way they changed up their contract with me without warning. xp
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Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 2:05 pm
Aakosir Evil By Name Technology has had both positive and negative opinions from the beginning of time. There is a point, a very fine line, when enough is too much (I'm looking at YOU, Apple), but for the most part, getting children introduced to technology is just the way of the world today. Schools are using computers more and more, and there are more techie jobs out there now than 10-15 years ago. And things like Smartphones are just ways to increase the ease of access to social lives, and a huge asset to the business world. Parents today come from a generation where the most awesome thing was the Nintendo Entertainment System, in all it's 8 bit glory. Some even experimented with the first Commador 64s, and their parents probably thought the same thing. So outside more, you'll melt your brain, etc, etc. Also, I noticed post about being driven away from playing outside because of some hot weather. Brother, I'll be frank, I live in Louisiana, and this summer was filled to the brim in days with a high no less than 91* F. And kids of all ages were still out playing and having fun. If that heat if impairing your ability to level your technological morals out, then get a sprinkler.
You say all the smartphones help with social life? Or are they really a way to make others jealous and angry? I say that because people always are bragging on FB about things. And a specific friend always bitches about everything not going her way, even though she is 20 and has never had a job. Her parents pay for everything. EVERYTHING! Car, car insurance, phone, gas, food, internet, school, clothes, make up, et cetera. She is the most ungrateful moocher ever. She always is updating her FB with her most recent bitchfest... This makes me very very angry. I am really close to deleting her.
Also, there are people who are very happy and post "I love my boyfriend" just about everyday, send baby talk back and forth, and then break up the next week and all you get it "life sucks" "FML" "I stubbed my toe, damn you {insert Ex's name here}" Maybe all my friends are just really immature, but this seems to be all my news feed shows...
What happened to people writing hand-written letters? Hand-written cards? Pictures in the mail? I think we are taking technology for granted.I disagree; the social networking sites such as FaceBook offers several advantages over hand writing letters, and talking face to face. First and foremost, its so much quicker, obviously. I don't know about you, but I have moderately slow hand writing, and a pretty good typing speed. Secondly, FaceBook gives you the option to block statuses, so Susie Hatemylife can have her statuses posted, but you have the power to block them entirely, or individually, without her knowing (something you really can't do face to face). And all the make ups and break ups, well that's just life. You'll probably hear aobut it one way or another. Oh, and a note, I didn't say ALL SmartPhones are for social lives. I know many more people who use BlackBerries for business strictly, with normal, non network phones for personal use. And for the cards, letters, and pictures: Think of it like this: physical things can get destroyed over time. Water, fire, wear and tear, etc. A photo saved on a storage device, or a website for such reasons is much more secure, and much simpler to send to others.
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Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 3:10 pm
Evil By Name Aakosir Evil By Name Technology has had both positive and negative opinions from the beginning of time. There is a point, a very fine line, when enough is too much (I'm looking at YOU, Apple), but for the most part, getting children introduced to technology is just the way of the world today. Schools are using computers more and more, and there are more techie jobs out there now than 10-15 years ago. And things like Smartphones are just ways to increase the ease of access to social lives, and a huge asset to the business world. Parents today come from a generation where the most awesome thing was the Nintendo Entertainment System, in all it's 8 bit glory. Some even experimented with the first Commador 64s, and their parents probably thought the same thing. So outside more, you'll melt your brain, etc, etc. Also, I noticed post about being driven away from playing outside because of some hot weather. Brother, I'll be frank, I live in Louisiana, and this summer was filled to the brim in days with a high no less than 91* F. And kids of all ages were still out playing and having fun. If that heat if impairing your ability to level your technological morals out, then get a sprinkler.
You say all the smartphones help with social life? Or are they really a way to make others jealous and angry? I say that because people always are bragging on FB about things. And a specific friend always bitches about everything not going her way, even though she is 20 and has never had a job. Her parents pay for everything. EVERYTHING! Car, car insurance, phone, gas, food, internet, school, clothes, make up, et cetera. She is the most ungrateful moocher ever. She always is updating her FB with her most recent bitchfest... This makes me very very angry. I am really close to deleting her.
Also, there are people who are very happy and post "I love my boyfriend" just about everyday, send baby talk back and forth, and then break up the next week and all you get it "life sucks" "FML" "I stubbed my toe, damn you {insert Ex's name here}" Maybe all my friends are just really immature, but this seems to be all my news feed shows...
What happened to people writing hand-written letters? Hand-written cards? Pictures in the mail? I think we are taking technology for granted.I disagree; the social networking sites such as FaceBook offers several advantages over hand writing letters, and talking face to face. First and foremost, its so much quicker, obviously. I don't know about you, but I have moderately slow hand writing, and a pretty good typing speed. Secondly, FaceBook gives you the option to block statuses, so Susie Hatemylife can have her statuses posted, but you have the power to block them entirely, or individually, without her knowing (something you really can't do face to face). And all the make ups and break ups, well that's just life. You'll probably hear aobut it one way or another. Oh, and a note, I didn't say ALL SmartPhones are for social lives. I know many more people who use BlackBerries for business strictly, with normal, non network phones for personal use. And for the cards, letters, and pictures: Think of it like this: physical things can get destroyed over time. Water, fire, wear and tear, etc. A photo saved on a storage device, or a website for such reasons is much more secure, and much simpler to send to others.
And I didn't realize you could block someone's statuses. I thought you had to block the entire person.
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Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 4:11 pm
Aakosir Evil By Name Aakosir Evil By Name Technology has had both positive and negative opinions from the beginning of time. There is a point, a very fine line, when enough is too much (I'm looking at YOU, Apple), but for the most part, getting children introduced to technology is just the way of the world today. Schools are using computers more and more, and there are more techie jobs out there now than 10-15 years ago. And things like Smartphones are just ways to increase the ease of access to social lives, and a huge asset to the business world. Parents today come from a generation where the most awesome thing was the Nintendo Entertainment System, in all it's 8 bit glory. Some even experimented with the first Commador 64s, and their parents probably thought the same thing. So outside more, you'll melt your brain, etc, etc. Also, I noticed post about being driven away from playing outside because of some hot weather. Brother, I'll be frank, I live in Louisiana, and this summer was filled to the brim in days with a high no less than 91* F. And kids of all ages were still out playing and having fun. If that heat if impairing your ability to level your technological morals out, then get a sprinkler.
You say all the smartphones help with social life? Or are they really a way to make others jealous and angry? I say that because people always are bragging on FB about things. And a specific friend always bitches about everything not going her way, even though she is 20 and has never had a job. Her parents pay for everything. EVERYTHING! Car, car insurance, phone, gas, food, internet, school, clothes, make up, et cetera. She is the most ungrateful moocher ever. She always is updating her FB with her most recent bitchfest... This makes me very very angry. I am really close to deleting her.
Also, there are people who are very happy and post "I love my boyfriend" just about everyday, send baby talk back and forth, and then break up the next week and all you get it "life sucks" "FML" "I stubbed my toe, damn you {insert Ex's name here}" Maybe all my friends are just really immature, but this seems to be all my news feed shows...
What happened to people writing hand-written letters? Hand-written cards? Pictures in the mail? I think we are taking technology for granted.I disagree; the social networking sites such as FaceBook offers several advantages over hand writing letters, and talking face to face. First and foremost, its so much quicker, obviously. I don't know about you, but I have moderately slow hand writing, and a pretty good typing speed. Secondly, FaceBook gives you the option to block statuses, so Susie Hatemylife can have her statuses posted, but you have the power to block them entirely, or individually, without her knowing (something you really can't do face to face). And all the make ups and break ups, well that's just life. You'll probably hear aobut it one way or another. Oh, and a note, I didn't say ALL SmartPhones are for social lives. I know many more people who use BlackBerries for business strictly, with normal, non network phones for personal use. And for the cards, letters, and pictures: Think of it like this: physical things can get destroyed over time. Water, fire, wear and tear, etc. A photo saved on a storage device, or a website for such reasons is much more secure, and much simpler to send to others.
And I didn't realize you could block someone's statuses. I thought you had to block the entire person.There are ways to safely store them online, there are sites that specifically work as virtual safes in that way (while it IS possible to be hacked, as long as there are skilled programmers, there is always that threat.) And yes. Hover your cursor over the status, and an X will appear. If you click it, you are given the options to block the use, remove the status from your feed, or cancel.
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