Get off my lawn!
Jul. 5th, 2011 09:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieDear God. Apparently Google wants to be the next Facebook. Their campaign appears to be based on, "We have all the features of Facebook, but unlike those fools, we have PRIVACY. Sooo much privacy! You know who's got privacy? We do! Look at all this privacy up in here!" Plus features that I didn't pay much attention to because I don't have a smart phone.*
I truly believe that one day, we will wake up to find that Google has taken over the governments of every nation on Earth, and has a unified world government in beta.
* One day in not too many years, a cell phone that's more computer than voice-transmission device is going to be required to join modern society, much in the way landlines were in the middle of the twentieth century and computers with internet access are becoming now, aren't they? Ugh. I don't deny they're handy, but I reject the notion of being accessible at all times on principle. I might be doing nothing more than staring at a wall in my free time, but it's still mine, and not to be infringed upon. As well, I've really grown to dislike the experience of trying to talk someone when they're interrupted by texts every twenty seconds. It's so rude! I just want to slap the phone out of people's hands when they do that.
...I have officially turned into an old lady.
I truly believe that one day, we will wake up to find that Google has taken over the governments of every nation on Earth, and has a unified world government in beta.
* One day in not too many years, a cell phone that's more computer than voice-transmission device is going to be required to join modern society, much in the way landlines were in the middle of the twentieth century and computers with internet access are becoming now, aren't they? Ugh. I don't deny they're handy, but I reject the notion of being accessible at all times on principle. I might be doing nothing more than staring at a wall in my free time, but it's still mine, and not to be infringed upon. As well, I've really grown to dislike the experience of trying to talk someone when they're interrupted by texts every twenty seconds. It's so rude! I just want to slap the phone out of people's hands when they do that.
...I have officially turned into an old lady.
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Date: 2011-07-06 03:26 am (UTC)I'll get a smart phone when they're the bare-bones standard, like basic cameraphones are today. Until then, eh. My current phone is a resurrected version of the model I got maybe four years ago, and that's ancient by cellphone standards, but I hate the wastefulness of "throw away your old dinosaur phone every six months or rot in uncool obsolescence!!11!!!!" [ps phones with dinosaurs? I would get that.]
I don't think it's smart phones that cause hyperconnectedness - it's just phones in general. And yes, I HATE people who check out of live conversations to talk to their phones. I was out to dinner with people a while back, and after we ordered, somebody got out a smart phone, then somebody else, then somebody else, and within two minutes I was sitting at a table surrounded by people staring at their phones in silence, and I was like, "Okay, I'll just be over here rearranging the salt shakers, then." So rude! And then they apologize and acknowledge their rudeness AND THEN THEY GO BACK TO STARING AT THEIR PHONES.
Phone-Slapping: my new favorite sport?
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Date: 2011-07-06 03:52 am (UTC)Thank god this isn't just me!
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Date: 2011-07-06 05:11 am (UTC)Assuming your parents are even on it at all, which thankfully mine are not...
I'll get a smart phone when they're the bare-bones standard, like basic cameraphones are today. Until then, eh.
This is my thought as well; if it's cheaper to get a smart phone than a regular one, then fine, but until then, nope. Also, I'm only getting a data plan when it's a reasonable pay-as-you-go fee.
My current phone is at least four years old. I think our plan allows my parents and me to get new ones every two years, but why bother?
I don't think it's smart phones that cause hyperconnectedness - it's just phones in general.
Oh, this is definitely true, although I think smart phones make it easier to disappear from the present moment, and the expectation that one will be available to read a text/e-mail/whatever is higher. And it's the expectation that annoys me most, not the potential to choose to be connected.
I have TOTALLY been in that everyone's-on-their-phone-but-me situation! I pulled out a book. It was my co-workers and we didn't really want to talk anyway, so it...worked out well for us, actually. But it sucks more when it's people I actually want to talk to.
Phone-Slapping: my new favorite sport?
There should be medals for the longest distance it flies from someone's hand!
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Date: 2011-07-06 06:00 am (UTC)My brother is the only other member of my family on facebook. Unfortunately, he's also the only one who would ever switch to Google+.
Also, I'm only getting a data plan when it's a reasonable pay-as-you-go fee.
Heh, I'm waiting for data to be an assumed component, like voicemail.
I think our plan allows my parents and me to get new ones every two years, but why bother?
If it ain't broke, don't upgrade it!
I think the real evil of smart phones is the availability of Facebook on them, ugh. But as far as expectation... I enjoy cultivating an air of "may or may not pick up her phone and probably will answer all facebook messages a minimum of three weeks late." But it's frustrating that that's so far from the norm.
But it sucks more when it's people I actually want to talk to.
I know, right? Because then it gives the impression that you never wanted to be in the conversation in the first place and were looking for a way out, as with dull coworkers!
There should be medals for the longest distance it flies from someone's hand!
Yes! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N38arD3fsmo)
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Date: 2011-07-06 06:25 am (UTC)Given how expensive even regular cable internet is these days, I'm gonna guess that's "never."
I think the real evil of smart phones is the availability of Facebook on them, ugh.
Yessssssssss.
I enjoy cultivating an air of "may or may not pick up her phone and probably will answer all facebook messages a minimum of three weeks late." But it's frustrating that that's so far from the norm.
Oh, I cultivate that air as much as possible, but it takes a while.
Penguin-tossing! I think I had an animated icon of that video once. Awww.
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Date: 2011-07-07 02:30 am (UTC)Haha, remember when you paid for home internet by the hour?
Oh, I cultivate that air as much as possible, but it takes a while.
If only it came in convenient forehead-sized-stamp form...
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Date: 2011-07-07 07:57 pm (UTC)Thankfully, I managed to avoid that! Having a parent in the public school system had advantages. We never had AOL because he got some kind of cool access via the school system for a while, and then we switched to a cable modem in the late nineties. I do remember our 14.4k modem from when I was ten or twelve, though. And then a few years at 28.8k. Ooooof.
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Date: 2011-07-08 02:01 am (UTC)