Some of today's technology have made us more egotistical and just distance ourselves from reality.
You know, I miss taking out a BoomBox and play street hockey.
A boombox is made to share the music with others.
I love the feel of putting on a 12" on a record player - it feels earned to take it out it's slipcase, smell it, maybe dust it off a bit... put it on the record player, slowly drop the needle on it, hear that cracking sound, and vivid and thick music starts to play.
I mean, I enjoy the fact that I today can have my cell phone and my music player in the same unit, and it's 1/5 size of a walkman - but the same time it doesn't feel "earned".
I miss, you know, putting together mixtapes to girls.
(wow this brings back memories)
It's like, you worked for that mixtape, and put your soul into copying the songs to that cassette tape - now days it's like "oh OK, I'll send over a couple of mp3 albums" - and seconds later it's done without any effort.
(LMAO, I was always picky to make sure it was the exact right amount of silence in between the tracks on the mixtapes so they wouldn't be too close to each other, yet enough silence that you build up an anticipation for the next track without getting bored - and of course make a good blend so it would be a good conjunction between the uptemo songs and the slow jams :lol
And I mean, look at Twitter and Facebook - those "communities" are
almost created to make a battle of who can be most self centred by making most status updates each day and have most followers - which often turns out to desperation where people talk crap about others just to seem more interesting.
So what I'm trying to say it's that it' for
me personally, both good and bad things comes along with technology - I mean, when I was a kid I was out playing with my friends, now days many children just sit by their computers and play War of Warcraft and stuff.
And for real... all my 80's babies up in here... Do you remember how frustrating it was when dust got stuck in the Nintendo 8-bit cassettes and you had to blow in the cassette to get the dust out?!
But man, it sure felt good when you got the game to work :lol:
At the risk of sounding like an "old person," I think we're losing the value of interpersonal relationships with electronics in 2009. It used to be, when you were with another person, you gave them your attention. Now, I see things like people walking together, both of the them on their phones talking to completely different people. And now people have bigger circles of friends than ever, but you don't really get to know most of them if you have to rely on texts and tweets most of the time. I'd say the early 1990s was my ideal time: the people who really needed cell phones had them, but most people talked to their friends face-to-face.
I'm almost 25...and I think a lot of what we have nowadays is cool...but also that many things have only created laziness...as well as stopped children and adults to really use their imaginations. I'd rather be living in the 70's or 80's.
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