Interesting and thought-provocative vid clip, Albin. I’m torn between both sides of the issue. I do find it ironic though that the presenter must use the very same technology (YouTube, social media, etc.) he purportedly disdains to deliver his message. Kinda like someone announcing, “I’m concerned about the effects on society of using a bullhorn” while using a bullhorn to announce it. Technology can indeed be a double edged sword.
I looked up and saw the ceiling 
Most interesting.
It’s a very nice video with a very nice sentiment. I think humans often misuse new technologies (and I’d consider this amazing computing power that we have to be still a new technology. I don’t think social media is that different, we’ll just eventually learn to use it for much better things.
Or we won’t, some humans will never learn, that’s just the way it is.
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Gavin Smith
It’s a very nice video with a very nice sentiment. I think humans often misuse new technologies (and I’d consider this amazing computing power that we have to be still a new technology. I don’t think social media is that different, we’ll just eventually learn to use it for much better things.[/quote]
I met my wife 11 years ago on match.com; so technology has been good for me.
I think my grandparents shared the same view, but in their day it was television.
An excellent example of not misusing the technology then. I think a lot of people use social media and other smartphone apps, as a way of switching off. It becomes a kind of an addiction, a reflex. Moment of boredom? Why think or read a book or phone someone you love or look at nature? Just look mindlessly at Facebook or play some color matching app for the 100th time that day. That’s misusing technology, in my book.
But humans can misuse anything.
I met my wife 17 years ago on IRC, so it’s been good for me too.
We prove that everyday in the most elemental of ways … by misusing each other as much as we do.
Oh oh! Scary trend here … Met (and married) my bride in 2001 online at Social Net. Makes me wonder if the following can be used as a characterization of modern day programmers in general:
- Must spend long hours learning programming languages.
- Must spend long hours using what you spent long hours to learn.
- Since there’s no more hours left after long hours spent on #'s 1 and 2 above, if not already in a relationship but desiring to have one, must resort to social media to meet potential mate.
Ha! Yeah, but the only way to reach some might have been to use YouTube 
He does have an interesting point!
I’m in no way against using the technology we have! I love it.
But I have not found the meaning of some things like Facebook for example.
Don’t have it and I’m not planing on getting it. Kind of the only one amongst the people around me
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But I have not found the meaning of some things like Facebook for example.
Don’t have it and I’m not planing on getting it. Kind of the only one amongst the people around me[/quote]
I use to feel that way about Facebook too; until my granddaughter started posting her son photo on Facebook.
[quote=86897:@Albin Kiland]But I have not found the meaning of some things like Facebook for example.
Don’t have it and I’m not planing on getting it. Kind of the only one amongst the people around me ;)[/quote]
You’re not alone in that regard, Albin … I’m the “black sheep” of our family for not participating (my wife set up an account for me that has only been used several times before I quickly got tired of it all). I guess I had trouble understanding just why I’d want to make my life (and every burp and hiccup in it) an open book to the world. Not to mention the number of times I’ve seen those “documented burps and hiccups” come back to haunt you later on.
I thought that at one point too. Call me cynical, call me paranoid, Jim, but I’m not sure with all the wackos out there that I’d want my family’s (especially my young children’s) images plastered and advertised in front of the world. Just takes one idiot out there with bad intentions to utilize that for all the wrong reasons. That’s just one where I would rather error on the side of playing it safe. The consequences of getting that one wrong are just too great to assume anything different … IMHO.
Ok… to change it up some…
I met my wife 40yrs ago over the cigar counter in a book/magazine store…
These new fangled computer gadgets were just beginning to be talked out (its just a fad after all)
Who was buying and who was selling the cigars?
She worked there… and the cigar part of the counter was out of the way of the cash-register… so that is where we met/talked etc.
Dave, you must be the same guy who wrote the article in a 1947 edition of Amateur Radio magazine that I have in my attic … it’s an editorial about this new thing called the “transistor” … they came to the conclusion at the end of the article that “although it was an interesting development, it would never replace the vacuum tube.”
That be fighting talk !
I met my wife on PlanetRockDating.com - not joking 
I met my wife 35 year ago when we were making a holiday tour by bus through Scotland, Wales and England.
No digital technology was used for this meeting. 