At what point did personal technology start changing our lives for the worse?

[BroScienceTalkatWork]

In your opinion —- what era of technology would you go back to?

You know.. personally I would say like 2010 ish —- we had YouTube, had smartphones that could play music and we could access information on the go. GPS

that’s all good

But now these companies are trying to creep into every moment of your life. For what?

Fuck you. Let me have my walks in nature.

AI art.. video generation.. Im putting my head in the sand with regards to all
that shit. we have enough entertainment man. I’m cool with the dopamine I get from watching UFC highlights on YouTube.

 

[Flower2dPeople]

Likes.

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

I’d say smart phones have been a net negative on society. Anywhere you go everyone has their faces in their phone non-stop. No one likes a hypocrite, I’m guilty of it myself, but seriously, people are just always on their phones all the time.

 

[BroScienceTalkatWork]

I’d say smart phones have been a net negative on society. Anywhere you go everyone has their faces in their phone non-stop. No one likes a hypocrite, I’m guilty of it myself, but seriously, people are just always on their phones all the time.

Yeah I hate it man. My laptop broke and I still haven’t fixed it. it was sucking up all my energy.

At least you can’t kill 6 hours on a phone. I tried.. got bored and walked to a lake.

Mobile porn doesn’t hit the same either. That’s the best part.

Break your laptop everyone, you won’t regret it ; )

 

[TheTickG]

1999 was a good year. Right before the Y2K bug destroyed all civilizations.

 

[Brom Bones]

In your opinion —- what era of technology would you go back to?

You know.. personally I would say like 2010 ish —- we had YouTube, had smartphones that could play music and we could access information on the go. GPS

that’s all good

But now these companies are trying to creep into every moment of your life. For what?

Fuck you. Let me have my walks in nature.

AI art.. video generation.. Im putting my head in the sand with regards to all
that shit. we have enough entertainment man. I’m cool with the dopamine I get from watching UFC highlights on YouTube.

I'd say when phones started getting cameras. Around 2002-2003 ish. I started noticing people taking selfies, which is extremely narcissistic. It went downhill fast after that, but I can see what he's saying with "smart"phones. Maybe that just accelerated the drop-off.

 

[GSP_37]

I'm scared keeping my phone in left front pocket and not in airplane mode dealt radiation to my private parts.

 

[San Marino]

1995 with Microsoft Windows 95.
The internet has been both a curse and a blessing. I grew up in the 70s and 80s and things were a lot more fun as a kid. People today live by their phone for most of the day. Nothing else. Kids are getting dumber. The overall US IQ is dropping.

 

[NoSmilez]

ChatGPT is pretty bad. I was talking to a younger chick. She said something about asking Chatgpt a personal issue. I think I got the male version of the ick.

I see some posters here cut and paste their thoughts from ChatGPT too. It kind of grosses me out.

 

[Meatspin]

I like having modern tech available. To what extent you use it is purely at your discretion.

 

[wildchild88]

ChatGPT is pretty bad. I was talking to a younger chick. She said something about asking Chatgpt a personal issue. I think I got the male version of the ick.

I see some posters here cut and paste their thoughts from ChatGPT too. It kind of grosses me out.

Chat gpt can be a cheaper more readily available alternative for a psych for some people. (I know someone who quit seeing their psych and uses it instead). They said it works for them..

It has access to every meaningful academic paper / publication / book on psychology. So it can be pretty effective at using it’s language models to package advice. I’m not saying it’s better than a psychologist now, but if someone is having an issue and asks it, it could be helpful. Psychology services are expensive and it can be hard to get an appointment.

I don’t use it for that personally, but in just mucking around with it a bit, seems to give decent practical health / mental health advice.

 

[wildchild88]

Smart phones have reduced people being present in reality, everyone is basically watching TV everywhere now.

 

[mb23100]

 

[axe wound]

When adolescent boys started to care more about clocking Donkey Kong then desperately hunting down some fresh, moist pouch

 

[mozfonky]

I'd say a good place to point to would be the point at which people started having personal ad pages like facebook and all their fake friends to feel like they were important when they weren't, and the advent of the cell phone that people can do all the things they can on a comp. I swear, it's the bane of modern society. I drive a lot and if I check, i can always see someone driving with their phone in their hand or looking at their lap for shit that can wait. It's sickening really and very dangerous, people walking across streets, against the light without looking up and being defiant about it.

Some say we live in a simulation, I don't believe that personally but I could really see us creating our own eventually, we are halfway their now, not in reality at all. Even worse, I see the young indulged with stuff that's already ruined a generation at minimum, i've seen babies given tablets and teens with smart phones they don't really need but since most people are dopey conformists and want to be like everyone else, here we are. The parents aren't even always dummies, i know a dentist that raised his kids on screens and I noticed long ago, they seemed to have a stunted form of speaking between the lack of communication with the parents and their broken english nannies. People don't think.

 

[Jesus X]

The introduction of the smartphone 2007.

 

[mozfonky]

I'd say when phones started getting cameras. Around 2002-2003 ish. I started noticing people taking selfies, which is extremely narcissistic. It went downhill fast after that, but I can see what he's saying with "smart"phones. Maybe that just accelerated the drop-off.

it is, i have a facebook but I don't do much on it besides keep a sort of diary. Only 5 "friends" none of whom are really friends or family. I hate the drama, i hate the ease with which people think they can get you involved in their lives and I hate the fake shit. My brother has been in the hospital, no visitors but me, most people have to be in that situation to see how superficial 99 percent of the people in their lives are. Thumbs ups and hearts and pussy shit don't do anyone any good other than fill them with the delusion that someone is interested or cares.

 

[mozfonky]

I like having modern tech available. To what extent you use it is purely at your discretion.

hard not to have some of it really. In fact, yes, it's irritating when some people don't at least have a minimum of technology and make things difficult because of it. Mailing letters and shit seems like such a waste when you can just write something and push a button.

 

[ssBaldy]

Social media and personalized advertising are the cancer.
GPS, banking apps, messengers are great. But the stupid vanity apps like FB and Instagram are horrible.

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

The invention of the wheel.