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I tried out Myspace last night, and my first thought was, "Man, what the hell is up with kids today."

I just don't get Myspace. I don't understand the appeal or why it's useful. And as I thought these things I realized that is exactly what my mom said about my cell phone and my Nintendo and a bunch of the other NECESSITIES OF LIFE that I have acquired over the years.

Anybody else have this kind of feeling about one of the newfangled gizmos or trends that the kids are all into these days?

Myspace is nothing but pedophile bait.

Yeh. One of my friends has got one of those iPhone things. What the hell is the point? You can get a phone and an MP3 player for a tiny fraction of the price. For the sake of carrying around one light extra item, hell of a waste of money.

Also...Myspace is shite with all its spam and being subjected to people's crap music taste when you open their page. Facebook, on the other hand I can just about deal with. Mainly because there are chess and scrabble applications :)

I realized I was old a few weeks back when I actually went into my child's room and told her to turn her radio down.

Yeah, I know.

:(

The thoughts we have as we approach another birthday eh?

Given the idea that, in the near future, your computer will only need to be a browser, something like MySpace will essentially be your OS. You'll store files, pictures, music and more and share or not share as you need.

Point is, it may not seem to be of use right now but something like it will be how we, and I hate this word, interface with a good portion of our lives.

Anybody else have this kind of feeling about one of the newfangled gizmos or trends that the kids are all into these days?
All the time.

It all went down hill when they invented the phonograph...damned bobbysoxers jiving to the waxings of the latest beat combo....

I realized I was old a few weeks back when I actually went into my child's room and told her to turn her radio down.

Yeah, I know.

:(

Oh, dude, that's another one:

I call our DVD player "the VCR." As in, "Where's the VCR remote?" Or, "Oh, we gotta change the VCR clock for daylight savings."

It gets better, though, because I also reflexively hit the "back" button on the DVD player when we're done with a movie. See, my dad always taught me that I should rewind a tape after watching it...

i'm with you, bottle. i'm completely dumbfounded by facebook. it keeps sending me annoying emails, and people keep on zombie biting me or something. i just don't care and don't see the point. if i want to meet up with people, i'll call or text them.

i realised i was getting old & confused the other day when i mistakenly sent a bunch of people friend invites by mistake, because i thought i was replying to their invites. i felt stupid, annoyed and confused all at the same time :(

so yeah, what's up with these damn kids and their music?:mad:

just don't get me started on myspace...

I tried out Myspace last night, and my first thought was, "Man, what the hell is up with kids today."

I just don't get Myspace. I don't understand the appeal or why it's useful. And as I thought these things I realized that is exactly what my mom said about my cell phone and my Nintendo and a bunch of the other NECESSITIES OF LIFE that I have acquired over the years.

Anybody else have this kind of feeling about one of the newfangled gizmos or trends that the kids are all into these days?

My moment was when I saw the first 10-year old girl wearing a "Future Porn Star" T-shirt...

Oh, dude, that's another one:

I call our DVD player "the VCR." As in, "Where's the VCR remote?" Or, "Oh, we gotta change the VCR clock for daylight savings."

It gets better, though, because I also reflexively hit the "back" button on the DVD player when we're done with a movie. See, my dad always taught me that I should rewind a tape after watching it...

I was teaching a class on creative thinking last fall and one of the assignments was for the kids to write down instructions on how to make a phone call, the only assumptions being that I knew how to read and I knew how to push buttons. Every single fucking one of them had the instruction "make sure the phone is right side up, the antenna should be pointing to the ceiling" :eek: I mentioned to them that when I was growing up our phone didn't have an antenna... and they were like :confused: "how did it talk to the base?" and I was like "it had a cord connecting the receiver to the base"

They couldn't fathom it. I brought one in the next day......"oh, Mrs. Smunkee! That's a toy phone!" .........it was real. It was from my kitchen. They just couldn't figure it out. I didn't even have a cordless phone until 1998....

oh, and for the young ones who are confused (who'da thunk it?!) here's a pic of a phone like the one on the wall of my kitchen.

http://users.aol.com/wephones/wetwl.jpg

Yeh. One of my friends has got one of those iPhone things. What the hell is the point? You can get a phone and an MP3 player for a tiny fraction of the price. For the sake of carrying around one light extra item, hell of a waste of money.


I saw some kid today carrying 3 phones around... Was simultaneously texting on 2 of them...

Fair enough, I'm a teenager of the cyber-era, but I think I must have preceded it becoming a fad by about 2 years...

The pace of technological change must be increasing rapidly - the 'I don't know how to record my tv programme' syndrome did not become apparent until people were in their fifties.

I was teaching a class on creative thinking last fall and one of the assignments was for the kids to write down instructions on how to make a phone call, the only assumptions being that I knew how to read and I knew how to push buttons. Every single fucking one of them had the instruction "make sure the phone is right side up, the antenna should be pointing to the ceiling" :eek: I mentioned to them that when I was growing up our phone didn't have an antenna... and they were like :confused: "how did it talk to the base?" and I was like "it had a cord connecting the receiver to the base"

They couldn't fathom it. I brought one in the next day......"oh, Mrs. Smunkee! That's a toy phone!" .........it was real. It was from my kitchen. They just couldn't figure it out. I didn't even have a cordless phone until 1998....

oh, and for the young ones who are confused (who'da thunk it?!) here's a pic of a phone like the one on the wall of my kitchen.

http://users.aol.com/wephones/wetwl.jpg

but... but... you see those phones all the time in movies (and btw we have a white one like that at home). how old are the kids? :confused:

Anybody else have this kind of feeling about one of the newfangled gizmos or trends that the kids are all into these days?

Yeah, I totally don't get the craze of stabbing people multiple times with a knife because they 'looked at me funny' that seems to be sweeping London this year.

but... but... you see those phones all the time in movies (and btw we have a white one like that at home). how old are the kids? :confused:

10-12

We got into this huge discussion about the major jump in technology during my lifetime, about how when I was a kid I had a computer that didn't even have a hard drive. We talked about how people didn't used to have cell phones and when I was a teen I had a pager (just like old people! haha) and how when I first got on the internet it was only bulletin boards and how we had to pay for each minute we were online and how we connected through our phone line......and how I didn't get CD's until I was 14 because they were new and expensive.

They think I'm old. :(

10-12

We got into this huge discussion about the major jump in technology during my lifetime, about how when I was a kid I had a computer that didn't even have a hard drive. We talked about how people didn't used to have cell phones and when I was a teen I had a pager (just like old people! haha) and how when I first got on the internet it was only bulletin boards and how we had to pay for each minute we were online and how we connected through our phone line......and how I didn't get CD's until I was 14 because they were new and expensive.

They think I'm old. :(

I didn't have a phone until I was 9 years old. Only had three channels as a kid on TV. I'm only a year older than you.

To be honest, seeing how kids these days behave when it comes to technology and their dependance on it, it makes me glad that those years are behind me.

I dread to think what is going to happen when people who think that every single detail of life should be recorded and logged on the internet, while being sent to everyone else they know, become old enough to be in positions of power...

There's a quick gag in the Frank Oz farce "In & Out" where the Matt Dillon character's girlfriend is completely undone by the rotary-dial phone -- she stares at it, bewildered, pokes the numbers angrily a couple of times, and collapses in frustration. It's awesome.

It was a joke about city slickers in 1998 (ah, the halcyon days of yore,) but I don't know how it would play today -- would at least a portion of the audience be just as confused as the character?

More importantly, with the demise of the rotary-dial phone, how are we going to play dumb with the auto-answering systems and force a real person to come on the line?

There's a quick gag in the Frank Oz farce "In & Out" where the Matt Dillon character's girlfriend is completely undone by the rotary-dial phone -- she stares at it, bewildered, pokes the numbers angrily a couple of times, and collapses in frustration. It's awesome.

It was a joke about city slickers in 1998 (ah, the halcyon days of yore,) but I don't know how it would play today -- would at least a portion of the audience be just as confused as the character?

More importantly, with the demise of the rotary-dial phone, how are we going to play dumb with the auto-answering systems and force a real person to come on the line?
I still remember when some cousins of mine came to visit at my parents' house, and they wanted to watch a movie but they couldn't figure out how to turn on the TV. See, my parents were still using an old set that they got as a wedding present in 1976, and it had a knob that you had to pull out and then turn to make the set switch on. The cousins were baffled.

That poll would have been better if multiple options were enabled :p

I first started feeling the pangs of old age when I realized I no longer cared who got this week's #1 slot on the top 40.

To be honest, seeing how kids these days behave when it comes to technology and their dependance on it, it makes me glad that those years are behind me.

I dread to think what is going to happen when people who think that every single detail of life should be recorded and logged on the internet, while being sent to everyone else they know, become old enough to be in positions of power...

We'll know about the scandals a lot sooner. No more waiting a few months before finding out your governor likes expensive hookers. Just pop on the MyPlace and, ooh, here's a picture of Client 9, maybe we shouldn't assume he's the savior of NY State government! (Incedently, Patterson is doing a much better job. Actually getting along with both sides of the isle and whatnot. Go figure!)


Anyway, I don't see the point in a lot of this crap. Like dropping a few hundred on an iPhone, when an iPod and a phone costs far less, and is just as convenient. Not to mention having to pay for AT&T. Holy crap they're expensive! I pay $5 a month (thank you Virgin Mobile) so that I can use the essentials: A few quick calls or texts. No "oh, hey, whats up, not much, you, blahblahblah." Just, "yeah, I can pick him up on my way home" or "Help I crashed the car and my brain is leaking."

Yeah I feel old too. Social networking sites and blogs, I just can't see anything useful in those. It's the same with all the hot stuff on the net everyone does, I just don't get it.

It's weird because I feel modern too at the same time when I see people still use special hardware for non-portable movie and music usage that was made obsolete by PCs with 5.1 and TV-out. They also use outdated technologies that where made obsolete by the Internet like TV, radio, telephony and carrying physical storage around.

Yeh. One of my friends has got one of those iPhone things. What the hell is the point? You can get a phone and an MP3 player for a tiny fraction of the price. For the sake of carrying around one light extra item, hell of a waste of money.
The iPhone is for Apple fanboys, it doesn't really have any other purpose. There are better, cheaper touch-screen mobiles. Oh, and they stick an MP3 player on everything because it is so easy and cheap. Get a "smart fridge" chances are it has an MP3 player.

That poll would have been better if multiple options were enabled :p

I first started feeling the pangs of old age when I realized I no longer cared who got this week's #1 slot on the top 40.

Yeah, I never cared. Everyone who isn't me has horrible musical taste.

I remember when my mom got our first color TV. I thought it was so kewl, much better than the black-and-white set we had. Our phone was a big black thing with a real dial.

There were no computers, there were no cellphones.

Now I'm scratching my head over this Myspace/facebook stuff.

Git awf my lawn!

From what I can read, man, you're all old in the mind.

There's potential, that's all it is, some for good and some for bad but newer, smaller, faster technology, the ability to share knowledge, experiences and feelings is a great thing.

15 years ago, much of your life was ruled by mobility, would your parents take you to the birthday, the swimming pool, the holiday.

These boundaries, of who and what you know, are being broken down.

Some might say there's more bullshit being spread around but I say we're likewise evolving the ability to detect bullshit, to sift through the messages we receive and thus the knowledge we're able to gain.

It's all fun to decry new technology, new trends but, as anyone would admit, each generation can deride that which they don't understand, or embrace it. Social networking will play a huge part in how we relate to the world in the future, infantile as it seems now. Hell, NSG is social networking of sorts and, let's be honest, how many of you would be talking to people in Australia, Italy, Spain, USA, Sweden, Ghana, to name a few, but a few years ago?

I think the Internet, i-phones, digital recording and dissemination of information in all its forms is fantastic.

I think the Internet, i-phones, digital recording and dissemination of information in all its forms is fantastic.
Don't get me wrong, I absolutely agree with this in spirit. I'm a scientist, for crying out loud, so you know I gotta love technological progress!

I just end up feeling old when I realize that my habits and my perspective have already set in place to a certain degree. Like calling the DVD player a VCR. I vastly prefer DVDs to VHS tapes, yet I can't completely shake my habits from growing up when VCRs were the BRAND NEW AWESOME AMAZING TECHNOLOGY. Hence, I'm a geezer already.

Myspace is nothing but pedophile bait.

yep

10-12

We got into this huge discussion about the major jump in technology during my lifetime, about how when I was a kid I had a computer that didn't even have a hard drive. We talked about how people didn't used to have cell phones and when I was a teen I had a pager (just like old people! haha) and how when I first got on the internet it was only bulletin boards and how we had to pay for each minute we were online and how we connected through our phone line......and how I didn't get CD's until I was 14 because they were new and expensive.

They think I'm old. :(

well if that makes you old, then at least we can be old together :fluffle:

though i never had a pager, lol (and i still don't get how they're supposed to work :p)


The iPhone is for Apple fanboys, it doesn't really have any other purpose. There are better, cheaper touch-screen mobiles. Oh, and they stick an MP3 player on everything because it is so easy and cheap. Get a "smart fridge" chances are it has an MP3 player.

hehe, QFT!

Yeah, I totally don't get the craze of stabbing people multiple times with a knife because they 'looked at me funny' that seems to be sweeping London this year.
*stabs*

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely agree with this in spirit. I'm a scientist, for crying out loud, so you know I gotta love technological progress!

I just end up feeling old when I realize that my habits and my perspective have already set in place to a certain degree. Like calling the DVD player a VCR. I vastly prefer DVDs to VHS tapes, yet I can't completely shake my habits from growing up when VCRs were the BRAND NEW AWESOME AMAZING TECHNOLOGY. Hence, I'm a geezer already.

In 2008, for the first time, the individual produced more traffic on the Internet than the corporation. What's happening is a huge shift in power to the consumer, to discuss, compare and contrast.

I read a wonderful report of a parent discussing the primaries who was convinced over who to vote for by her 16 year old son. from an argument straight out of NSG.

Think of the debates we have, debates we would only have read about in newspapers, probably following our parents in voting patterns out of blind allegiance.

I know you're merely noting the changing of time, naturally there's a certain regret, possibly a yearning for those times when everything was exciting and different, when Dad came home in a new car - but I'm just so, I'm not sure of the word, just intrigued by the changes happening.

Any generation feels it's at the cusp of something new but the digital revolution is, I feel, equivalent to the printing press in terms of social change and I do concede that this started with radio, let alone TV or the Internet but I think the Internet is a great accelerator.

hehe, QFT!

Wrong, the i-phone was built for consumer experience, to be a joy to use and it succeeds, more and more corporations need to think about what the consumer actually wants rather than what they can sell for the highest price.

People wanted it not just from brand value but because it was genuine fun to use, to play with and bounce through navigation.

Previously, companies could charge on incremental value, hell, Microsoft actually disable features from Vista Professional to sell Home use at a cheaper price.

The consumer was being diddled, they had no choice. That's changing.

Wrong, the i-phone was built for consumer experience, to be a joy to use and it succeeds, more and more corporations need to think about what the consumer actually wants rather than what they can sell for the highest price.

People wanted it not just from brand value but because it was genuine fun to use, to play with and bounce through navigation.

Previously, companies could charge on incremental value, hell, Microsoft actually disable features from Vista Professional to sell Home use at a cheaper price.

The consumer was being diddled, they had no choice. That's changing.

erm, i believe the point was that there have been smartphones with the functionality on par with, or greater than, the iphone's for some time now. and many cheaper, too.

but i'm glad iphone users are having tonnes of fun bouncing around their phones.

the other point was regarding the merging of technology. i personally don't see anything wrong with carrying round a camera, a phone and a music player. if that makes me old-fashioned, or not in-keeping with what consumers are, according to you, demanding, then so be it.

Wrong, the i-phone was built for consumer experience, to be a joy to use and it succeeds, more and more corporations need to think about what the consumer actually wants rather than what they can sell for the highest price.

People wanted it not just from brand value but because it was genuine fun to use, to play with and bounce through navigation.

Previously, companies could charge on incremental value, hell, Microsoft actually disable features from Vista Professional to sell Home use at a cheaper price.

The consumer was being diddled, they had no choice. That's changing.

I don't quite understand this. Surely the customer isn't getting good value. I find it really weird that consumers want to pay massively over the odds for functions that are available for a tiny fraction of the price just to avoid them having to carry an extra device in their bag? It certainly isn't good value for what you get. Unless the 'fun' from a touch-screen menu is worth a hell of a lot of money to consumer. I have to say I'm increasingly convinced that the customer is not always right. So many people are irrational spendthrifts buying stuff they don't need, just so it can be integrated and save them a tiny amount of weight in their bag. Its a mentality I struggle to get my head around

I remember when my mom got our first color TV. I thought it was so kewl, much better than the black-and-white set we had. Our phone was a big black thing with a real dial.
Rotary phones are awesome. I might get one just to have one. One of the old school 30lb desk ones. It won't even be connected, it will just sit there and people will be like "why do you have that?" and I will respond with "In case the call comes." Then they will be confused and I will have a nice laugh.

My moment was when I saw the first 10-year old girl wearing a "Future Porn Star" T-shirt...

I have a 4 yr old daughter and that thought will haunt my nightmares.

Yes. I will stalk my daughter and check out all of her friends.

Rotary phones are awesome. I might get one just to have one. One of the old school 30lb desk ones. It won't even be connected, it will just sit there and people will be like "why do you have that?" and I will respond with "In case the call comes." Then they will be confused and I will have a nice laugh.

Ha ! My father has one in his garage-It took me a moment ot recall how to use it last time I was there and had to make a call.

My grandmother had one til the day she died. And I found out she had RENTED that same phone from the phone company for 30 or 40 years.

Wrong, the i-phone was built for consumer experience, to be a joy to use and it succeeds, more and more corporations need to think about what the consumer actually wants rather than what they can sell for the highest price.

People wanted it not just from brand value but because it was genuine fun to use, to play with and bounce through navigation.

Previously, companies could charge on incremental value, hell, Microsoft actually disable features from Vista Professional to sell Home use at a cheaper price.

The consumer was being diddled, they had no choice. That's changing.
And the Apple fanboy ranters appear. It's like a Pokemon game. If you wonder around enough and say Apple isn't the greatest company ever, they will pop out of the grass and you will have to do monster battles with them.

Silliness aside, it is patently absurd to attack Microsoft for what they did or did not do with Vista. There are different versions of OS because different people need different things and if you don't need a certain thing, why pay for it? Not like Apple is some epitome of fair customer service. What about releasing the iPhone at some what, $800 or something else absurd and then dropping it to $200 a couple weeks later? Or rereleasing the same bloody mp3 player every few months with minimal design changes and charging people the brand-new item price? I could go on.

I don't quite understand this. Surely the customer isn't getting good value. I find it really weird that consumers want to pay massively over the odds for functions that are available for a tiny fraction of the price just to avoid them having to carry an extra device in their bag? It certainly isn't good value for what you get. Unless the 'fun' from a touch-screen menu is worth a hell of a lot of money to consumer. I have to say I'm increasingly convinced that the customer is not always right. So many people are irrational spendthrifts buying stuff they don't need, just so it can be integrated and save them a tiny amount of weight in their bag. Its a mentality I struggle to get my head around

In a sense you're right, people oftentimes pay for what they can see rather than realising that less is more. It's irrationally part of our nature.

There was always the point about remote controls, that we prefer separate controls for, say, TV, VHS/DVD/, stereo system. Actually, this isn't the case, it's that universal remotes were simply too difficult.

I made this point to a Nokia product designer, that it's annoying that we don't have a universal charger standard for mobiles.

'Yes', he said, 'but can it be Nokia's?'.

Functionality is less important to the consumer than simplicity of use

My moment was when I saw the first 10-year old girl wearing a "Future Porn Star" T-shirt...
I was at Target a while back and saw a pair of low-rider sweatpants with "True Love Waits" written in glitter across the ass of the pants.

In the Junior's section.

I was deeply confused.

*snip*

Honestly dude, you're so far more an anti-Apple fanboy than I am a fan, it blinds you to some basic points.

If that's how you want to define yourself then fair enough, enjoy.

*points to everyone* Y'all are old! :p

Some of it I get. I like my Hi Def TV. But I also have a DVD player, an MP3 and a Bluetooth none of which I use.

What is with Bluetooth, anyway - a bunch of people running around talking to themselves, then you look more closely and realize they have this Star Trek thing hanging out of their ears. Supposedly it's supposed to make it easier to use their cell phones when they're driving - as far as I can see, it just makes it easier for them to be on the phone 24/7, ignoring the rest of the world.

DVD players are pretty useless, too. Most movies are on one of the movie channels within a year of coming out.

As for the MP3, I still haven't mastered the art of downloading music to the damn thing even though my daughter paid for the downloads. I'd never use it anyway, the stupid little earphones keep falling out.

The cordless phone is ok, I like the freedom of taking it anywhere in the house I want to go. But I have the cell phone under protest. My kids make me carry the damn thing so I'll have a "safety" net. Half the time I leave it home or forget to charge it, mostly because, to me, it's an electronic leash. It also scares me to death to see these people, including my son, texting or talking on the cell phone while driving (my son used to be a cop, he should know better!).

I tried out Myspace last night, and my first thought was, "Man, what the hell is up with kids today."

I'm 17, and I've got exactly the same, although I sure as hell can't live without my PC *hugs pc* :fluffle:
But really, I don't understand why people want the latest of the latest, like pantless hero sad: Apple is releasing bassicly the same machine over and over again (véry smart, since they're making tons of money) and people keep buying the thing! I don't understand why. My mobile phone does what it has to do, my mp3-player does what it have to do and they're all properly functioning: why buy a new one then?

I was at Target a while back and saw a pair of low-rider sweatpants with "True Love Waits" written in glitter across the ass of the pants.

In the Junior's section.

I was deeply confused.

I've seen very young girls with the same low riders that say "juicy" across the ass.
A 12 yr old is juicy? Do they have parents?

I know I'm getting old when that makes me grit my teeth.

I'm just silly I guess, in my thinking that there shouldnt be anything bringing attention to a minor's ass.
Its wrong to me and I cant just clearly state why for some reason.

A 12 yr old is juicy?
Why, yes, put it in a juicer and you'll be surprised how much you can get.

Seconded, I had a Myspace, I got tired of it on account of not getting it, and I erased it.

Facebook is going down the same cliff now.

And I don't get that damned sudoku!!:mad:

I tried out Myspace last night, and my first thought was, "Man, what the hell is up with kids today."

I just don't get Myspace. I don't understand the appeal or why it's useful. And as I thought these things I realized that is exactly what my mom said about my cell phone and my Nintendo and a bunch of the other NECESSITIES OF LIFE that I have acquired over the years.

Anybody else have this kind of feeling about one of the newfangled gizmos or trends that the kids are all into these days?

I am a techno-skeptic. There hasn't really been any huge computer discovery since the integrated circuit; almost everything else is just the result of refining and marketing...lots and lots of marketing. So, for the most part, I a content to remain out of the loop only because in a year, iPhone 2.0 will just kick me back out again, minus $150. Anything that's really useful will continue for much longer, and will in the future be cheaper and better anyway.

My moment was when I saw the first 10-year old girl wearing a "Future Porn Star" T-shirt...

That doesn't so much make me feel old as spur me into unhealthy levels of indignation.

Although it's kinda hard to make a 17.5 year old, second year uni student feel old.

DVD players are pretty useless, too. Most movies are on one of the movie channels within a year of coming out.

Personally I'd rather not be at the mercy of the television networks when it comes to watching movies, and a year is a long time.

I tried out Myspace last night, and my first thought was, "Man, what the hell is up with kids today."

I just don't get Myspace. I don't understand the appeal or why it's useful. And as I thought these things I realized that is exactly what my mom said about my cell phone and my Nintendo and a bunch of the other NECESSITIES OF LIFE that I have acquired over the years.

Anybody else have this kind of feeling about one of the newfangled gizmos or trends that the kids are all into these days?

Myspace is crap. Don't worry. *From a young-un's perspective, grandma!*

*iz joking:p*

i'm with you, bottle. i'm completely dumbfounded by facebook. it keeps sending me annoying emails, and people keep on zombie biting me or something. i just don't care and don't see the point. if i want to meet up with people, i'll call or text them.

i realised i was getting old & confused the other day when i mistakenly sent a bunch of people friend invites by mistake, because i thought i was replying to their invites. i felt stupid, annoyed and confused all at the same time :(

so yeah, what's up with these damn kids and their music?:mad:

just don't get me started on myspace...

I know, what the fuck? I've been bitten by zombies 147 times over the last fucking month and a half.

That doesn't so much make me feel old as spur me into unhealthy levels of indignation.

Although it's kinda hard to make a 17.5 year old, second year uni student feel old.

How old were you when you graduated from secondary school? Back in my day (and part of the world), young punks didn't go to university until they were eighteen unless they were super-geniuses. Of course, we were a lot stupider back then.

I tried out Myspace last night, and my first thought was, "Man, what the hell is up with kids today."

I just don't get Myspace. I don't understand the appeal or why it's useful. And as I thought these things I realized that is exactly what my mom said about my cell phone and my Nintendo and a bunch of the other NECESSITIES OF LIFE that I have acquired over the years.

Anybody else have this kind of feeling about one of the newfangled gizmos or trends that the kids are all into these days?

Would you like a cane, gramps? I can get you a good deal on one at the same place I got mine. ...

:eek:

Shit. :(

I know, what the fuck? I've been bitten by zombies 147 times over the last fucking month and a half.

they pinch me, they poke me, they do all sorts of other sordid shit with me, and then send some kind of zombie army after me. for the love of god.... who cares?? (and why?)

don't my friends have anything better to do than send each other zombie bites and pokes and hugs and stuff? *slowly turns into grumpy old man before your very eyes*

they pinch me, they poke me, they do all sorts of other sordid shit with me, and then send some kind of zombie army after me. for the love of god.... who cares?? (and why?)

don't my friends have anything better to do than send each other zombie bites and pokes and hugs and stuff? *slowly turns into grumpy old man before your very eyes*

Of course there's something better (http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=3052170175).

10-12
......and how I didn't get CD's until I was 14 because they were new and expensive.

They think I'm old. :(
:eek: you were advanced! I didn't get my first CD until I was 13 which was in 1999.

My aunt who has little kids said something about DVDs and CDs that made sense to me. They are too easily damaged. You cant just take them out of the machine and put them in a stack on top of the tv or CD player because they get scratched.

they pinch me, they poke me, they do all sorts of other sordid shit with me, and then send some kind of zombie army after me. for the love of god.... who cares?? (and why?)

don't my friends have anything better to do than send each other zombie bites and pokes and hugs and stuff? *slowly turns into grumpy old man before your very eyes*

I know. They don't even have the time to write on my wall, but they do have time to invite me to their group via ramming a pirate sword into my gut. Assholes. :upyours:

(Jk, of course, I'm not actually pissed :D)

:eek: you were advanced! I didn't get my first CD until I was 13 which was in 1999.

My aunt who has little kids said something about DVDs and CDs that made sense to me. They are too easily damaged. You cant just take them out of the machine and put them in a stack on top of the tv or CD player because they get scratched.

That's true. I have never, ever had an LP that didn't work because it was too badly scratched. I'm sure it's possible, but it has never happened to me. I take pretty good care of CDs, but I've still had to toss at least two because of damage. The two I tossed were also ones I just burned with my computer, but you'd think they wouldn't be that much worse than what you buy in a store.

Yea, I agree with pretty much everything that has been said here. I'm only 20 but I feel old sometimes...

I liked cassesttes alot better for music than cd's despite having to wait for a song if u wanted to get to it. I only ever destroyed one cassette and it was like 20 yrs old and it was the player's fault. Eh.. computers definitely trump both though.

That's true. I have never, ever had an LP that didn't work because it was too badly scratched. I'm sure it's possible, but it has never happened to me. I take pretty good care of CDs, but I've still had to toss at least two because of damage. The two I tossed were also ones I just burned with my computer, but you'd think they wouldn't be that much worse than what you buy in a store.

It all went down hill when they invented the phonograph...damned bobbysoxers jiving to the waxings of the latest beat combo....

It seems that you're not old enough. Phonographs were around long before bobbysoxers or beats were even born. I've inherited 78RPM recordings (which still play on my antiquated turntable) from the 30s. Not flexible vinyl at all. My mother said her brothers destroyed half her parents' collection using them as skeet shooting targets! :eek: I shudder to think of how much out-of-print and potentially collectible/valuable music were shotgun-shattered.

10-12

We got into this huge discussion about the major jump in technology during my lifetime, about how when I was a kid I had a computer that didn't even have a hard drive. We talked about how people didn't used to have cell phones and when I was a teen I had a pager (just like old people! haha) and how when I first got on the internet it was only bulletin boards and how we had to pay for each minute we were online and how we connected through our phone line......and how I didn't get CD's until I was 14 because they were new and expensive.

They think I'm old. :(

I didn't get a CD player of any kind until I was given a CD boombox when I broke my leg in 1995. I didn't start buying CDs with any regularity until I bought my 1991 Acura Integra in 1998, and it had a CD player in it. Used CD stores have since become as haunt-worthy as bookstores to me -- I don't visit a large city without finding the local used CD shops and browsing. You can find amazing stuff, and if the people who price things aren't paying attention, you can get bargains like I did: a good condition CD of David Bowie's anthology Changesbowie for $5 (median price used as far as I'd researched back when I got it in 2002 is closer to $20).

Rotary phones are awesome. I might get one just to have one. One of the old school 30lb desk ones. It won't even be connected, it will just sit there and people will be like "why do you have that?" and I will respond with "In case the call comes." Then they will be confused and I will have a nice laugh.

Not only that, but you could beat the hell out of an intruder with an old phone, too -- one shot to the head, problem solved. Plus, it made a neat "ding" sound when you clocked someone with it. Just try that with your damned Nokia.

I was at Target a while back and saw a pair of low-rider sweatpants with "True Love Waits" written in glitter across the ass of the pants.

In the Junior's section.

I was deeply confused.

Yeah. Totally agreed there. Sweat pants used to have writing down the outside of the leg. There are words on pants' asses now -- I'm clearly supposed to read them, right? Otherwise, why anything at all, let alone words in shiny glitter. I'm waiting for someone wearing these stupid things to turn around and glare at me for staring at her ass. To which I'll reply, you've worn these deliberately to draw attention, and now you don't like the attention?

Seriously, I'm sure that we're not far away from having writing across the crotch. "Café Vagina -- open all night!" I think kids are the same as they've always been, but my age has made me see absences of common sense, intuition, and self-respect. And before I get castigated for typing that, I mean to say that as an average, which means there'll always be those of you who are sensible, intuitive, and possessed of a humble pride to balance out the legion of twits. Good on ya.

*snip and agree with everything else but the following*

DVD players are pretty useless, too. Most movies are on one of the movie channels within a year of coming out.

Uh...are you looking at your cable bill? You're paying what, $40+/mo. for basic cable and more for "premium" movie channels, right? I can get the movies I want to see when I want to see them via Netflix ($14/mo. unlimited, two at a time), and the video store for immediate demand -- which Netflix also satisfies if you like watching downloaded movies on your computer (I don't) or have the capacity to route video from computer to big screen. I don't, and have yet to find a compelling enough reason to get rid of my perfectly-functioning and only seven-year-old tube TV...astoundingly heavy as that behemoth is.

Point is, it's hard to have discussions about movies when you're catching them a year after they've been released. Not that this is a MUST or anything, but waiting that long AND paying more for the privilege seems...untenable to me.

:eek: you were advanced! I didn't get my first CD until I was 13 which was in 1999.

My aunt who has little kids said something about DVDs and CDs that made sense to me. They are too easily damaged. You cant just take them out of the machine and put them in a stack on top of the tv or CD player because they get scratched.

I have to disagree. Unless you go out of your way to treat them poorly, CD/DVD media are plenty durable. I have yet to own a CD or DVD that's stopped working, and I've dropped many of them (I am King Klutz). Sometimes the quality of the player is an issue. I have a cheap-ass ($30) RCA DVD player, and it clearly doesn't oversample or buffer well enough. Some rented DVDs will hesitate for what seems like interminable periods of time, and I look at the DVD itself to find scratches so shallow or miniscule as to be only barely visible. Sometimes paying a bit more for a player is the wiser choice. I've never had that problem at my parent's house, where the DVD player was thoroughly researched by my techno-savvy and get-what-you-pay-for-but-still-thrifty stepfather.

I tried out Myspace last night, and my first thought was, "Man, what the hell is up with kids today."

I just don't get Myspace. I don't understand the appeal or why it's useful. And as I thought these things I realized that is exactly what my mom said about my cell phone and my Nintendo and a bunch of the other NECESSITIES OF LIFE that I have acquired over the years.

Anybody else have this kind of feeling about one of the newfangled gizmos or trends that the kids are all into these days?

Actually, I don't get it either, and I'm only twenty-one. Demographically speaking I should have an iPod, a Facebook, a MySpace, and all sorts of crazy crap I don't want or need.

So I don't think it's you getting old. I think it's simply that your interests lie elsewhere.

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g240/lizcoolmompicks/IMG_1916.jpg

size 3 months.

horrible.

The people who buy this will spend eternity in the circle of Hell beneath the circle that has the people who bought clothing for their pets. Thus spake New Limacon.

I was at Target a while back and saw a pair of low-rider sweatpants with "True Love Waits" written in glitter across the ass of the pants.

In the Junior's section.

I was deeply confused.

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g240/lizcoolmompicks/IMG_1916.jpg

size 3 months.

horrible.

Those things make me think "What the hell?!". Really, what goes through the minds of those designers, I don't get it.

I knew I was getting old when a guy a couple years younger than me said he had never seen a single episode of Star Trek.

I was teaching a class on creative thinking last fall and one of the assignments was for the kids to write down instructions on how to make a phone call, the only assumptions being that I knew how to read and I knew how to push buttons. Every single fucking one of them had the instruction "make sure the phone is right side up, the antenna should be pointing to the ceiling" :eek: I mentioned to them that when I was growing up our phone didn't have an antenna... and they were like :confused: "how did it talk to the base?" and I was like "it had a cord connecting the receiver to the base"

They couldn't fathom it. I brought one in the next day......"oh, Mrs. Smunkee! That's a toy phone!" .........it was real. It was from my kitchen. They just couldn't figure it out. I didn't even have a cordless phone until 1998....

oh, and for the young ones who are confused (who'da thunk it?!) here's a pic of a phone like the one on the wall of my kitchen.

http://users.aol.com/wephones/wetwl.jpg


I still have a phone with a cord. But not one like the one in the picture because that's one of those wonky American phones like Roseanne had. :p

Mine looks like this: http://www.nodevice.ru/images/catalog/e835.jpg

I was at Target a while back and saw a pair of low-rider sweatpants with "True Love Waits" written in glitter across the ass of the pants.

In the Junior's section.

I was deeply confused.

This is breaking my brain.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely agree with this in spirit. I'm a scientist, for crying out loud, so you know I gotta love technological progress!

I just end up feeling old when I realize that my habits and my perspective have already set in place to a certain degree. Like calling the DVD player a VCR. I vastly prefer DVDs to VHS tapes, yet I can't completely shake my habits from growing up when VCRs were the BRAND NEW AWESOME AMAZING TECHNOLOGY. Hence, I'm a geezer already.

VCRS? Thats crazy high technology. I remember in school we had slides and a cassette player and when the audio beeped some nerd in class would volunteer to be the AV boy and he would click to the next slide after the beep.

VCRS? Thats crazy high technology. I remember in school we had slides and a cassette player and when the audio beeped some nerd in class would volunteer to be the AV boy and he would click to the next slide after the beep.
Hehe.

Anybody remember copying music from one cassette tape to another by setting up two boom boxes opposite each other real close together and pressing "Play" on one and "Record" on the other at the same time? That's how I did when I was around 7 or 8.

Hehe.

Anybody remember copying music from one cassette tape to another by setting up two boom boxes opposite each other real close together and pressing "Play" on one and "Record" on the other at the same time? That's how I did when I was around 7 or 8.

My mother tells a story of my great aunt visiting us when we first got our Beta machine, my mother was (of course) recording "All my children" while she was watching it. My great aunt sat completely still and said nothing for an entire hour.....after the soap opera went off she made the comment "my goodness! it's hard to be quiet while you are recording"

I'm not sure if it's true, but it's a hilarious mental picture.

Hehe.

Anybody remember copying music from one cassette tape to another by setting up two boom boxes opposite each other real close together and pressing "Play" on one and "Record" on the other at the same time? That's how I did when I was around 7 or 8.

So who remembers Laser Discs?

Im a substitute teacher and was working a shop class for eight graders. Since i dont have safety training for the tools they are always basically study halls. In this one particular class they had me show a movie about solar energy. It was on one of those big reel projectors with the 2 big film spools on top from the 1970s. The kids all get up and swarm the machine exclaiming "Wow old school!" and looked at it like it was from a museum. And here i knew exactly how to thread it and run it and everything. The kids didnt even know what threading a movie even was. THAT made me feel old.

So who remembers Laser Discs?

I do! I do!

We had a laserdisk player and a whole bunch of laserdisks. I remember watching Jurassic Park on laserdisk.

I was teaching a class on creative thinking last fall and one of the assignments was for the kids to write down instructions on how to make a phone call, the only assumptions being that I knew how to read and I knew how to push buttons. Every single fucking one of them had the instruction "make sure the phone is right side up, the antenna should be pointing to the ceiling" :eek: I mentioned to them that when I was growing up our phone didn't have an antenna... and they were like :confused: "how did it talk to the base?" and I was like "it had a cord connecting the receiver to the base"

They couldn't fathom it. I brought one in the next day......"oh, Mrs. Smunkee! That's a toy phone!" .........it was real. It was from my kitchen. They just couldn't figure it out. I didn't even have a cordless phone until 1998....

oh, and for the young ones who are confused (who'da thunk it?!) here's a pic of a phone like the one on the wall of my kitchen.

http://users.aol.com/wephones/wetwl.jpg

Dagnabbit! Buncha whippersnappers! *shake cane in threatening manner* Why didn't the OP let me choose multiple options? *adjusts dentures*

I have used a corded desk phone with a rotary dial.

A few months back, at the library I work at, there was a mother that had to keep explaining to her kids that they couldn't get something because it wouldn't play in the DVD player they had. That's right, the kids had never seen a VHS in their lives.

I felt so old.

I realized I was old a few weeks back when I actually went into my child's room and told her to turn her radio down.

Yeah, I know.

:(

When I was younger, I used to go to my parents and tell them to turn their music down.

I think I was born crotchety.

Then again, it may have had to do with the fact that I could hear it through one level of the house, three doors, and the fucking shower. And they weren't even in the same room as the music. What the fuck?

Those things make me think "What the hell?!". Really, what goes through the minds of those designers, I don't get it.

It sells. The designers are in the business of selling clothing. What's to get?

I don't agree with it, but I'm not about to restrain trade just because a small segment of the population is dumb enough to think a pigpen is something to write with.

I do! I do!

We had a laserdisk player and a whole bunch of laserdisks. I remember watching Jurassic Park on laserdisk.

I remember when they tried to get them into schools...Ten minute educational videos that take twenty minutes to load off of huge-ass laserdisks...That was a good idea.

I still have a phone with a cord. But not one like the one in the picture because that's one of those wonky American phones like Roseanne had. :p

Mine looks like this: http://www.nodevice.ru/images/catalog/e835.jpg
That's a business phone. Weird.
So who remembers Laser Discs?

Up until last year when kids vandalized it with my '67 Bus, I still had one. The most modern car I owned was my '85 Vanagon.

I didn't have internet until 5 years ago.

I didn't have a cell phone until 3 years ago.

I didn't own a proper DVD player until last year. (instead I'd use my Playstation, which was the first gaming system I ever owned despite growing up in the era of the Atari 2600)

What's weird is, I started off digging 'the new.' CD players were awesome, my dad bought an Atari 400 that I desperately tried to learn how to program (and failed. I mastered "goto" commands in basic and then went outside and played.)

All my friends that have scattered from my heady slacker days have MySpace now and all but plead for me to get on there so I can keep up with everyone (especially since one of the people who gives updates on me makes shit up out of whole cloth like I write for Cheaters...). I just can't bring myself to do it. And there isn't a reason. Just because some people might use MySpace to collect thousands of 'e-friends' and create a virtual existence that confounds me doesn't mean that I have to. I work in a field where networking is key, and a networking tools should be embraced, but I just don't. I should get over myself and just do it. This thread might shame me into it.

I can't stand the aesthetic, though. The static background against moving text bugs. And no one picks the colors right so that the text always conflicts with the background. And for gods sake, if you didn't perform the music that starts playing on your site, please don't. Meh, maybe I won't...

That's a business phone. Weird.


Up until last year when kids vandalized it with my '67 Bus, I still had one. The most modern car I owned was my '85 Vanagon.

I didn't have internet until 5 years ago.

I didn't have a cell phone until 3 years ago.

I didn't own a proper DVD player until last year. (instead I'd use my Playstation, which was the first gaming system I ever owned despite growing up in the era of the Atari 2600)

What's weird is, I started off digging 'the new.' CD players were awesome, my dad bought an Atari 400 that I desperately tried to learn how to program (and failed. I mastered "goto" commands in basic and then went outside and played.)

All my friends that have scattered from my heady slacker days have MySpace now and all but plead for me to get on there so I can keep up with everyone (especially since one of the people who gives updates on me makes shit up out of whole cloth like I write for Cheaters...). I just can't bring myself to do it. And there isn't a reason. Just because some people might use MySpace to collect thousands of 'e-friends' and create a virtual existence that confounds me doesn't mean that I have to. I work in a field where networking is key, and a networking tools should be embraced, but I just don't. I should get over myself and just do it. This thread might shame me into it.

I can't stand the aesthetic, though. The static background against moving text bugs. And no one picks the colors right so that the text always conflicts with the background. And for gods sake, if you didn't perform the music that starts playing on your site, please don't. Meh, maybe I won't...

I network with my facebook and linkedin.

I network with my facebook and linkedin.

I'm actually on linkedin and it hasn't meant shit. It may be because I've logged onto it all of three times, but I don't even know what I'm supposed to be doing when I'm there.

This (http://www.cafemobile.at/img.aspx?id=40022) is the phone we have at home. I'm 22. May I still feel old now?

I network with my facebook and linkedin.

Im old enough that im not networked with anyone and i have no clue what linkedin is.

I think I was born crotchety.
:p

That's a business phone. Weird.
Nah, a business phone has wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy more buttons and crap. But yeah, this is generally how corded phones look(ed) here. When I was a kid/teenager in the 80s, they used to look sorta like this. (http://www.bundestag.de/aktuell/archiv/2008/19848228_kw11_recht/telefon_450.jpg)
We never had those crazy (but practical, I guess) on-the-wall phones with the cord that stretches for miles; I literally only know those from American sitcoms.

I was at Target a while back and saw a pair of low-rider sweatpants with "True Love Waits" written in glitter across the ass of the pants.

In the Junior's section.

I was deeply confused.

My moment was when I saw the first 10-year old girl wearing a "Future Porn Star" T-shirt...

Hell, I'm 14, and I think both of those are creepy.

This (http://www.cafemobile.at/img.aspx?id=40022) is the phone we have at home. I'm 22. May I still feel old now?

This (http://www.officialpnlsbna.org/Indian_Fire.jpg)is our phone.

I tried out Myspace last night, and my first thought was, "Man, what the hell is up with kids today."

I just don't get Myspace. I don't understand the appeal or why it's useful. And as I thought these things I realized that is exactly what my mom said about my cell phone and my Nintendo and a bunch of the other NECESSITIES OF LIFE that I have acquired over the years.

Anybody else have this kind of feeling about one of the newfangled gizmos or trends that the kids are all into these days?
You can't be old, aren't you only a few years older then me?
I realized I was old a few weeks back when I actually went into my child's room and told her to turn her radio down.

Yeah, I know.

:(
You are only a few years older than me, you're not allowed be old.
My moment was when I saw the first 10-year old girl wearing a "Future Porn Star" T-shirt...
Kids today are crazy, and come equipped with crazy parents.
I have a 4 yr old daughter and that thought will haunt my nightmares.

Yes. I will stalk my daughter and check out all of her friends.
Very wise. The plus side to these leaps in technology is the leaps in surveillance technology. Give it a few years, you'll be able to track her movements 24/7, monitor her BAC, detect males within a certain radius of her.

Of course, you'll be totally evil for doing so, but shit happens :p
I was at Target a while back and saw a pair of low-rider sweatpants with "True Love Waits" written in glitter across the ass of the pants.

In the Junior's section.

I was deeply confused.
It's a scam. To make the parents think it's okay to buy.
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g240/lizcoolmompicks/IMG_1916.jpg

size 3 months.

horrible.

Ow! My brain!

:p


Nah, a business phone has wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy more buttons and crap. But yeah, this is generally how corded phones look(ed) here. When I was a kid/teenager in the 80s, they used to look sorta like this. (http://www.bundestag.de/aktuell/archiv/2008/19848228_kw11_recht/telefon_450.jpg)
We never had those crazy (but practical, I guess) on-the-wall phones with the cord that stretches for miles; I literally only know those from American sitcoms.

That phone is just nutty...

:p


Nah, a business phone has wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy more buttons and crap. But yeah, this is generally how corded phones look(ed) here. When I was a kid/teenager in the 80s, they used to look sorta like this. (http://www.bundestag.de/aktuell/archiv/2008/19848228_kw11_recht/telefon_450.jpg)
We never had those crazy (but practical, I guess) on-the-wall phones with the cord that stretches for miles; I literally only know those from American sitcoms.

That phone is cuuuuute can you get me one?! I neeeeeeeed it.

Also, yeah, my pink rotary wall phone has like a 15 foot twirly cord so I can walk around a bit with it.......it's hilarious.

I'm not old: based on the "It's not the years; it's the mileage" theory of aging, I don't have enough life experiences like raising children or marriage to completely forget what it's like to be an overcompetant high schooler. But I do have an overwhelming desire for privacy and fear that I'm really banal deep down, so I keep my inner emo away from places like Myspace and Facebook at all costs.

Plus it makes sure I talk to my sadistic family members when I want to rather than when they want too, because they have no accurate contact information. Happy to say that even today, the top listings of my name on Google are my old job whose number is inoperative for the summer.

I remember when you used a card catalog to find books at the library, and took them out by handing them to a page/clerk and signing for them, rather than scanning them through a self-checkout machine. I remember when cars were made out of metal, and still got better mileage per gallon than today's plastic wind-up toys. I remember when portable phones were called 'car phones' whether you used them in the car or not. :p

I don't mind the way things are today, but I don't go in for any of the new gadgets, to be honest. Just so long as I'm not *required* to own a cell phone or write a "blog," I have no complaints.

That phone is cuuuuute can you get me one?! I neeeeeeeed it.
I'm sure I could but I'm also pretty sure the plugs & stuff are different in the US. Aww. *consoles*

i'm with you, bottle. i'm completely dumbfounded by facebook. it keeps sending me annoying emails, and people keep on zombie biting me or something. i just don't care and don't see the point. if i want to meet up with people, i'll call or text them.

i realised i was getting old & confused the other day when i mistakenly sent a bunch of people friend invites by mistake, because i thought i was replying to their invites. i felt stupid, annoyed and confused all at the same time :(

so yeah, what's up with these damn kids and their music?:mad:

just don't get me started on myspace...

yeah, I don't know what the hell is up with face book and all those useless apps. I will never, ever get a myspace though.

I tried out Myspace last night, and my first thought was, "Man, what the hell is up with kids today."

I just don't get Myspace. I don't understand the appeal or why it's useful. And as I thought these things I realized that is exactly what my mom said about my cell phone and my Nintendo and a bunch of the other NECESSITIES OF LIFE that I have acquired over the years.

Anybody else have this kind of feeling about one of the newfangled gizmos or trends that the kids are all into these days?

That's what I still think about mp3's and mp3 players.

I felt old the day I heard of the 'emo' trend.

It all went down hill when they invented the phonograph...damned bobbysoxers jiving to the waxings of the latest beat combo....

I blame movable type print, things just weren't the same after that.

I'm sure I could but I'm also pretty sure the plugs & stuff are different in the US. Aww. *consoles*
I just want to put it in my house......it doesn't have to function. I'll use it in an art piece!

I remember when you used a card catalog to find books at the library, and took them out by handing them to a page/clerk and signing for them, rather than scanning them through a self-checkout machine.

Our library started using RFID tags in the books, it freaks me the fuck out. When I first got my library card you had to sign the little tag in the book and the little card they kept, then they got computers and they would scan your card and scan the book (they had barcodes) now I put my finger on the finger print scanner and slide my book over the RFID reader. I don't even get to have banal conversations with the book checker outer person. :( :(

lol u jus dnt gett he cool facter of myspac its jus rly fn n u can tlak 2 ppl u kno fro mskool n now tht its sumer its sooo mch mre convniant 4 whn u wnt 2 heng out w/ ur firends so u jsut sen em a msg an b liek 'hey u wnna hng sumtime?'

LOL ur old!

lol u jus dnt gett he cool facter of myspac its jus rly fn n u can tlak 2 ppl u kno fro mskool n now tht its sumer its sooo mch mre convniant 4 whn u wnt 2 heng out w/ ur firends so u jsut sen em a msg an b liek 'hey u wnna hng sumtime?'

LOL ur old!

Facebook in reality (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrlSkU0TFLs) - not overly funny to be honest...

Related only that it's on MySpaceTV but fairly funny if you have a brother..

Taking mother's day photo (http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1193184720)

I was at Target a while back and saw a pair of low-rider sweatpants with "True Love Waits" written in glitter across the ass of the pants.

In the Junior's section.

I was deeply confused.



Well, thats a mixed messege, and the paranoid loon in me sees it as slightly dangerous.

Lowrider pants that draw attention to the ass. They then say, once it has your attention "Wait to do naughty things". Messege is "Want this? THEN YOU MUST TAKE IT!!!'


But, I do have a habit of being a loon who sees things that arent there...


Oh...erhm. DAMN KIDS! GET OFF MY LAWN!!!

I felt old the day I heard of the 'emo' trend.

I'm afraid of what they'll come up with next.

I went to a baseball game with my son this evening (Friday). He was texting people constantly during the game. What happened to just watching the game?

(by the way, the Rockies won 6-4)

I tried out Myspace last night, and my first thought was, "Man, what the hell is up with kids today."

I just don't get Myspace. I don't understand the appeal or why it's useful. And as I thought these things I realized that is exactly what my mom said about my cell phone and my Nintendo and a bunch of the other NECESSITIES OF LIFE that I have acquired over the years.

Anybody else have this kind of feeling about one of the newfangled gizmos or trends that the kids are all into these days?Yup. Two more threads from you, and Eutrusca will be gawking at your conservativity (as compared to everything else he'd USUALLY gawk at about you)

All the time.Liar. There's certainly a few gizmos you have a strong fondness for. :p

I was at Target a while back and saw a pair of low-rider sweatpants with "True Love Waits" written in glitter across the ass of the pants.

In the Junior's section.

I was deeply confused.
Yeah, i'd be confused too. It's supposed to read, "What What".
*looks wistfully at Nanatsu no Tsuki*

So who remembers Laser Discs?

I saw a stack of laser discs for sale at a garage sale run in front of a trailer home by a white trash redneck type. I wonder where the heck he got 'em, because there's no way his apparent finances could have covered that expense.

10-12

We got into this huge discussion about the major jump in technology during my lifetime, about how when I was a kid I had a computer that didn't even have a hard drive. We talked about how people didn't used to have cell phones and when I was a teen I had a pager (just like old people! haha) and how when I first got on the internet it was only bulletin boards and how we had to pay for each minute we were online and how we connected through our phone line......and how I didn't get CD's until I was 14 because they were new and expensive.

"You" got into a huge "discussion" about ... some boring old history shit.

They think I'm old. :(

No shit.

I'm still trying to figure out this mysterious TV/typwriter thing in front of me.

I'm artificially old. All my friends consider VHS to be "those old cassette things before DVD's?" Arrgh.

Yeh. One of my friends has got one of those iPhone things. What the hell is the point? You can get a phone and an MP3 player for a tiny fraction of the price. For the sake of carrying around one light extra item, hell of a waste of money.

Also...Myspace is shite with all its spam and being subjected to people's crap music taste when you open their page. Facebook, on the other hand I can just about deal with. Mainly because there are chess and scrabble applications :)

Yeah. Facebook is quite nice to keep in touch, but I wouldn't even try to do that on myspace... I was happy when the ugly, geocities-type homepages (including pics of the family dog) died out, but myspace is just like that. One the other hand, you may find some local musicians on it (that you know of beforehand obviously, not by trying to find something good in the masses of bullshit); you can then listen to about 4 songs or so before moving on to more such crews.

My moment was when I saw the first 10-year old girl wearing a "Future Porn Star" T-shirt...

Muahaha! On the other hand, on a 10-year-old that's just wrong :eek:

I just want to put it in my house......it doesn't have to function. I'll use it in an art piece!
Heh, I'll see if maybe someone wants to get rid of theirs on Ebay.
Crazy 'merikkans.

Liar. There's certainly a few gizmos you have a strong fondness for. :p
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"You" got into a huge "discussion" about ... some boring old history shit.



No shit.
What's with the grumpiness? Mood matching the topic?

I'm 17 and I don't understand myspace or facebook. I don't even have or want a cellphone. And if I do ever have to get one I refuse to text message on it.

I'm an outcast. :(

The one time I felt old was when I was doing a writing lesson with my kids...I played them two songs from the Smashing Pumpkins. Only one kid knew who they were, and only because they "reformed".

*trips kid with my cane*

I'm 30 years old, so i'm kind of in between both generations. On one hand, i do have a MySpace page, as do many of my friends. I love my iPod, i bring it with me practically every time i leave the house, i do blog and i have a DVD player.

On the other hand, i don't have a cell-phone, i'm one of the few people i know who doesn't. I had records as a kid, actual vinyl, i am old enough to remember when CD's first came out. I remember computers that only used those big floppy disks, we used to play "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" on ours. I only started using the internet 7 years ago, at the age of 23, even though we had an internet connection earlier than that.

My favorite type of music is classic rock, i like many songs that are older than i am, and i also love 80's music, since i am a child of the 80's. That being said, i also like many of the songs that are out now. There's not many individual albums i like now, but plenty of songs. I still listen to American Top 40 everyday, and i love watching American Idol.

I've been told i have an old soul, and in many ways i do, but i also tend to be young at heart in certain ways too.

I first knew I was old when I walked through my local grocery store and was "treated" to a Muzak version of "Another Brick in the Wall"-a song from the first album I ever purchased with my own money.
As far as MySpace, it's a wasteland of perverts and psychopaths-my sister among them

I saw some kid today carrying 3 phones around... Was simultaneously texting on 2 of them...

Fair enough, I'm a teenager of the cyber-era, but I think I must have preceded it becoming a fad by about 2 years...

lol?
If he had 3 phones, he was either a moron or a drug dealer.

I'm 30 years old, so i'm kind of in between both generations. On one hand, i do have a MySpace page, as do many of my friends. I love my iPod, i bring it with me practically every time i leave the house, i do blog and i have a DVD player.

On the other hand, i don't have a cell-phone, i'm one of the few people i know who doesn't. I had records as a kid, actual vinyl, i am old enough to remember when CD's first came out. I remember computers that only used those big floppy disks, we used to play "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" on ours. I only started using the internet 7 years ago, at the age of 23, even though we had an internet connection earlier than that.

My favorite type of music is classic rock, i like many songs that are older than i am, and i also love 80's music, since i am a child of the 80's. That being said, i also like many of the songs that are out now. There's not many individual albums i like now, but plenty of songs. I still listen to American Top 40 everyday, and i love watching American Idol.

I've been told i have an old soul, and in many ways i do, but i also tend to be young at heart in certain ways too.

hahaha awesome I played that game when I was a young :D
(is only 19 now though...)

what I wonder is, with all of our disposable technology, will any records of this era actually remain long after we are gone? a cd doesn't exactly compare to carvings in stone.

what I wonder is, with all of our disposable technology, will any records of this era actually remain long after we are gone? a cd doesn't exactly compare to carvings in stone.

Slightly less flammable than giant libraries, maybe?

what I wonder is, with all of our disposable technology, will any records of this era actually remain long after we are gone? a cd doesn't exactly compare to carvings in stone.

The Greatwinter Trilogy by Sean McMullen says no. But only because of EMP-shooting satellites.

Slightly less flammable than giant libraries, maybe?

That probably won't matter... would you still be able to get the data from a 5.25" floppy? Changing technology would make reading CD a difficult task to do.

I first knew I was old when I walked through my local grocery store and was "treated" to a Muzak version of "Another Brick in the Wall"-a song from the first album I ever purchased with my own money.
As far as MySpace, it's a wasteland of perverts and psychopaths-my sister among them

Yeah. That'll do it, alright.

I'm 17 and I don't understand myspace or facebook. I don't even have or want a cellphone. And if I do ever have to get one I refuse to text message on it.

I'm an outcast. :(

Wow, you're me four years ago.

I have a myspace (my band forced me to get one) and a facebook (same thing, but with college friends) and a cell phone now, though I still refuse to send or even read text messages.

Slightly less flammable than giant libraries, maybe?

Fire isn't the problem in giant libraries, it's the flesh-eating shadows you have to watch out for.

I was happy when the ugly, geocities-type homepages (including pics of the family dog) died out, but myspace is just like that.

The sooner everyone can agree that white/light blue backgrounds and no sound are the best basis for a website the better.

Yesterday I was flipping through channels and came across "The top 40 hotties of the 90s" on one of the music TV channels. I'm delighted by this (for obvious reasons) and proceed to watch. Good list, lots of nice bodies, fine family fun.

But then, immediately following the program, there is a New Kids On The Block video.

Srsly. WTF?

At first I'm thinking, "Oh, they're showing an old New Kids video! Fits with the 90s thing, sorta, right?"

No. It's new. It's a new New Kids video.

The New Kids, now middle-aged, are stiffly attempting to be a boy band again while macking on 18-year-old girls who seem somewhat less than enthusiastic about being in a video with some weird old dudes.

And I sprouted another gray hair.