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

[Contempt]

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

Yeah but our generation remember a time before the internet and constant attachment to a smartphone and seem to be able to put the bloody thing down for five minutes and interact with people in real life.

Honestly, in my opinion, it wasn't social media that fucked everything up, it was 24/7 access to the bloody thing that started with the iphone's release; Before that, smartphones were pretty niche.

 

[Spounman]

Cell phones made life easier but smart phones have ruined it.

 

[Wrath of Foamy]

It has it's benefits, but when Google bought YouTube.

The internet used to be full of creativity, then lost it when social media started becoming a business, and long existed words started becoming actively replaced due to an overly sensitive algorithm.

 

[BroScienceTalkatWork]

Social Media.

Especially when it comes to the dating market. It gave majority of people an Inflated Ego.

Yeah the online dating thing killed me

Through 2018 I was doing great with online dating. And then the apps and formulas got extremely aggressive

I stopped being able to get any matches. Like overnight

That’s a funny thing in life.. if you never had something to begin with you can live without it. But if it gets taken away? Lord have mercy

I will hunt a motherfucker down and get that shit back

 

[empsim]

Smart phones.

Even before Social Media (which made it even worse) I don't think the 24/7 availability was a good thing. And everyone always having a camera in their pocket also sucks.

 

[KBE6EKCTAH_CCP]

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

I do not think that this is correct. In Germany it is becoming impossible to use online banking without the Photo TAN App which is on a smartphone. At the same time banks have been closing their branches all over the place, so that you need online banking. Paper codes, SMS codes and these little devices have been pretty much phased out. In Germany you need a bank account for many things, and cash is also being phased out.

So based on this example alone, I completely disagree that it is „entirely at one‘s discretion“. There are countless other examples. Smartphone technology is absolutely being pushed on society at large. It‘s fine if you like it, but don‘t be blinded to think that we have a choice.

 

[Meatspin]

I do not think that this is correct. In Germany it is becoming impossible to use online banking without the Photo TAN App which is on a smartphone. At the same time banks have been closing their branches all over the place, so that you need online banking. Paper codes, SMS codes and these little devices have been pretty much phased out. In Germany you need a bank account for many things, and cash is also being phased out.

So based on this example alone, I completely disagree that it is „entirely at one‘s discretion“. There are countless other examples. Smartphone technology is absolutely being pushed on society at large. It‘s fine if you like it, but don‘t be blinded to think that we have a choice.

Germany is a digital backwater. I think my reference to modern technology unfortunately doesn’t apply to you.

 

[Dusty Rhodes]

When they changed the fucking Handbrake/Parking brake to a dinky little trigger thing that you can barely put your finger in. The amount of unnecessary gimmicks in cars drives me fuckin nuts

 

[Sweater of AV]

Hard to say, but people walking around with their heads permanently buried in their phones always cracks me up.

 

[Sweater of AV]

I'd also say around 2010 or a little earlier. I remember about 5 years before that, texting my girlfriend in college with our flip phones. We'd text each other answers during tests

Community college must be a hell of a ride.

 

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