Jon Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 13 minutes ago, Rugeley Villa said: Sometimes I like a break off VT but I could never give up the net completely as I like reading too much shit all the time. And porn 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 1 minute ago, Jon said: And porn That's just standard. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 I'm not on social media so i'm not as fatigued by it as some of you may be. I couldn't give up the internet though as all my music/tv shows/films are streamed from the likes of Netflix and Spotify. I also love the sheer volume of information online and love going off on a tangent and all of a sudden i've gone from here to looking up greatest maritime disasters to reading up about certain battles in WW2. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 That being said, if I'm holiday I very rarely go online. If I do its just to find bar/pub recommendations etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 8 hours ago, Amsterdam_Neil_D said: I only look at my phone a few times a day these days. I look around on the train every day and there are fit birds left and right but everyone is more interested in Facebook and the like, that cannot be good can it. I ditched Facebook years ago and feel so much better without it. I posted something a while back. I was on a train journey and sitting behind a woman... I could see her phone through the gap in the seats. She sat down, phone out and on Facebook, then Twitter, then Instagram... catches up on the latest posts, then puts phone in lap. Two minutes later, she goes though the same process again. Phone back in lap. Two minutes later, same again. Rinse and repeat for an hour. Nothing could be happening on the social media platforms in that time-frame but it was like she couldn't stop doing. Like a compulsion or addition. I almost felt sorry for her. On the train I listen to my music and read a paper (or book). If I'm not in the mood to read I just watch people. 95% of them have their head in their phones. Like you, I came off social media years back and do feel better for it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted May 12, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted May 12, 2017 I've taken breaks from here before. I'm probably overdue one really (cue much cheering). It's quite... refreshing, satisfying. The net generally? No. I'm not the kind of person to be in Facebook or the like all day. I don't care enough about other people's lives and mines not exciting enough to bother eating other people's time with. But I'm an info addict. And most of my entertainment these days is streamed. I don't know what I'd do without it these days really. Saying that I'm not sure it's actually good for my mental well-being. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midfielder Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 4 hours ago, Xela said: I'm not on social media so i'm not as fatigued by it as some of you may be. I couldn't give up the internet though as all my music/tv shows/films are streamed from the likes of Netflix and Spotify. I also love the sheer volume of information online and love going off on a tangent and all of a sudden i've gone from here to looking up greatest maritime disasters to reading up about certain battles in WW2. Same here Xela. I used to be big into Facebook and all the rest but had quite a disastrous break up with an ex, that overlapped into a well almost popularity contest online with shared friends, I took a break from Facebook in the aftermath and soon after thought f it, its deactivated / dormant I don't log on. I don't miss it. Break up reason aside, most of my "friends" were people from the past anyway who I never see and contacted, went for a life offline that involves texts calls emails and face to face and don't miss it all. Plus i don't have to see their pics of their BMWs or their new houses or their designer bleeding dogs whatever popping up in my emails about activity updates! Agreed on streaming and need internet for Villatalk which is a nice internet home. I , in my life have only ever been a member of two forums but all praise be to VT. agreed one hundred percent about tangents. Just start on Wikipedia with some film you watched that ends up say looking up some actor who was in X about Y then you wiki Y and that leads to Z and before you know it you know the demographics of Tuvalu or the history of the history of the Ottoman Empire. Random tangents , agreed. Sometimes though a spell away from the net is good too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuthority Posted May 13, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted May 13, 2017 6 hours ago, Xela said: I was on a train journey and sitting behind a woman... I could see her phone through the gap in the seats. She sat down, phone out and on Facebook, then Twitter, then Instagram... catches up on the latest posts, then puts phone in lap. Two minutes later, she goes though the same process again. Phone back in lap. Two minutes later, same again. Rinse and repeat for an hour. Nothing could be happening on the social media platforms in that time-frame but it was like she couldn't stop doing. Like a compulsion or addition. I almost felt sorry for her. I think it's been scientifically proven that people get little hits of dopamine from 'likes' mentions etc. when interacting with social media. In addition to FOMO which is another form of compulsion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 I decided to leave my smartphone behind to go to a conference the past two days. Immediately realised how reliant I had been on it when I came unstuck travelling up there: I had to call my partner to double check train ticket reference numbers, the name of my hotel, the location of it and the venue name of the conference! I did know the details vaguely but realised I'd developed such a reliance on the phone as back up I hadn't focussed on preparing for it as I would have done pre smart phone. On the other hand I read almost an entire book on the journey up and back which was nice. The conference was for information professionals and seemed to involve plenty of twitter as part of the various self promotion. Not involved there. No photos of the scenic llandudno bay area possible either! I did enjoy the break overall mind, and not frenetically checking updates out of habit rather than interest, sitting down and actually reading a paper front to back etc. But I realised how futile it all seems trying to disconnect entirely. Hell, I came away realising it is quite advantageous to be more linked in from a professional perspective. A blog post and signing up to twitter now imminent! Although some mixed messages with one talk on internet privacy instinctively made me want to delete absolutely everything online. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 (edited) 9 hours ago, TheAuthority said: I think it's been scientifically proven that people get little hits of dopamine from 'likes' mentions etc. when interacting with social media. In addition to FOMO which is another form of compulsion. Indeed, however, i'm sure that people could get the same dopamine hits from actually interacting with people or reading a great book. Its a sad situation when some people are obsessed with finding out where an old school friend they last spoke to 20 years ago is 'checking in' at. Saying that, a lot of people find it highly suspicious I have no social media presence. They think i'm hiding from something! Edited May 13, 2017 by Xela 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mottaloo Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 I dont think i could go a day without it especially the way smart phones are these days; i mean i can shop, bank, communicate instantly with family on the other side of the planet or even arrange my love life ! What does wind me up though is how it kills conversations and proper social activity. I once saw a hen party in the airport bar at bhx, about 15 of em and not a word was being said cos they were glued to their phones ! A truly surreal sight ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 I have to say, I'm more and more conscious about how long I can spend scrolling through stuff like Twitter, IMDB (and Villatalk) during the evening. which does get in the way of sitting down and watching a program or film. Luckily, I barely get time, let alone a decent connection whilst at work - so don't look at the internet for personal reasons (other than the BBC website) At night, especially when watching a movie I'm trying to leave the phone in the kitchen so it's not easy to hand, as otherwise I'd be looking at what films that obscure bloke who's on screen for 2 minutes has been in before! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 47 minutes ago, mottaloo said: What does wind me up though is how it kills conversations and proper social activity. I once saw a hen party in the airport bar at bhx, about 15 of em and not a word was being said cos they were glued to their phones ! A truly surreal sight ! I hate it. I hate, hate, hate this and the inability to focus on people. I don't know if it's the infantilisation of adults or the beginning of the assimiliation of the borg :/ PUT THE PHONE DOWN YOU TREMENDOUS SACKS OF EFFLUENT. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dr_Pangloss Posted May 13, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted May 13, 2017 (edited) People who walk down the street, eyes fixed on their smartphones, not looking where they're going, deserve to get chinned. Edited May 13, 2017 by Dr_Pangloss 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 11 minutes ago, Dr_Pangloss said: People walk down the street, eyes fixed on their smartphones, not looking where they're going, deserve to get chinned. This annoys me, but is even worse when mums with young kids running around are more interested in their phone than their kids next to a busy road. Humans will eventually evolve naturally hunched to look at screens in their hand. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnkarl Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 (edited) I went off social media in 2008 when I just got tired of reading about people's kids, what they ate for dinner and how perfect everyone's lives look on it. In fact most people who brand their polished lifestyle on social media probably feel like crap inside. All my friends and family are instructed to give me a ring, a quick text followed by a conversation or to write an email/letter(how nice is it to get a letter these days) if they want to talk to me. It's enriched my life greatly since I went cold turkey. As for the internet and forums I probably couldn't go off it. I am a bit tired of people being keyboard warriors and writing on here just to argue but it's not putting me off too much. Trolls will remain trolls, it just used to be a lot easier to call people out before they could hide behind a screen. Edited May 13, 2017 by magnkarl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 I take a few weeks off now and then. I deactivated my Facebook a while back. Being online gets me down sometimes, just the idiots... I find it hard. So yeah, sometimes I wonder about just leaving full time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 (edited) 2 hours ago, mottaloo said: What does wind me up though is how it kills conversations and proper social activity. I once saw a hen party in the airport bar at bhx, about 15 of em and not a word was being said cos they were glued to their phones ! A truly surreal sight ! I'm not art lover but I think this is De Nachtwacht at Rijksmuseum, having been there a few years back. Glad to see they are appreciating it. Edited May 13, 2017 by Xela 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 I'm on Facebook and it's really easy to not read shit: just unfriend/unfollow/block as necessary. I like to take the piss out of everyone and everything and have the occasional rant. But if I had to, I'd not be too bothered shutting it down (I'd just get everyone to switch to Tumblr porn ) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 I also use Facebook but only because I moved away from brum and it's a decent medium to keep in touch with old friends back home and across the globe. however I do despair at friends who just post shite or declarations of love and philosophical quotes. If you love your missus, tell her to her face, not the world!!! (Just as idiotic as those who dedicate songs on the radio - f@&! Off!) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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