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Edwynn -> RE: Apple's iPhone... (1/26/2012 9:57:00 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Aileen1968
Hahahaha.
I feel sorry my kids generation. They don't know what it's like to just run outside and play.
Everything is prearranged as a "playdate".
I was a kid in the 70's and a teen in the 80's. I wouldn't trade that for anything.
No cell phones. No internet. Just real life.
People actually interacted face to face with people.
So then here is my online GF. Just kidding, I know you are already engaged elsewie, etc.
I bought my first home computer 7 years ago, bought my first cell phone 5 days ago ($9.99 for the phone, 10 cents-per-minute, non-contract). I've lost it twice already, but (checking my pocket as we speak) it's here now.
Yes, the two biggest apps in my life were the Sears turntable, with then down loadable (from a store) 45 RPM tunes, and the larger 33 & 1/3 also, and then a battery operated radio to take outside, which I did only occasionally.
I remember the day when I could walk through the woods with out hearing earbuds or cell phone conversation from 50 feet away, (driving 200+ miles away for a nice bike ride, hike, or climb and then hearing the cell phone crap when another human is around is a tremendous pisser), public transportation with out hearing at least 3 different cell phone conversations and at least 3 different ear buds blasting away, be in a restaurant in mid afternoon, which was formerly the quiet time, but now filled in this time slot by at least 3 different cell phone conversations and one or two blasting from ear buds, and so then now we have the grocery store, where we can all be caught up on the most trivial of everyone else's concerns the entire time while shopping and waiting in check-out, thanks to cell phones, lack of manners, and plain idiocy.
The university library limits actual library rules to the fifth floor, all other floors allowing cell phone conversation and ear bud blasting at all times.
Dekalb and Fulton counties still disallow such usage in their libraries. When are they going to catch up?
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