I didnt know this happened anymore!

• Belly35

  

  The Belly family eats slow so we have a rule no phone at meals, holidays, family reunions, church events and gun range :laugh:
• Con_Alma

  Steel Valley Football;1251265 wrote:I think you have mistakenly labeled the ADDITION of communication means as REPLACEMENT of the existing communication means.
  
  I visit and call from my house, my mom, who lives 2.5 hrs away, the same amount as I did 15 years ago. However, additionally, I text her and video chat. I also can call her when I'm AWAY from home now because I have a mobile phone, where as before I did not.
  
  The same is true of kids today. They still see their friends at school and interact the same as they did twenty years ago. They still hang out after school and at social events; movies, football games, etc. However, in ADDITION to that, they call, text and facebook/internet chat during that time and in the later hours. Twenty years ago, that extra communication in the later hours did not exist; other than via telephone.

  There are numerous articles written addressing the impact of the volume of communications that has emerged which due to it's convenience and simplicity has take the place of a more engaging and personal direct communications. It is that that I was referring to.
  
  When face to face communications exists,especially in our youth, the impact is most prevalent.
• Steel Valley Football

  Con_Alma;1251273 wrote:There are numerous articles written addressing the impact of the volume of communications that has emerged which due to it's convenience and simplicity has take the place of a more engaging and personal direct communications. It is that that I was referring to.
  
  When face to face communications exists,especially in our youth, the impact is most prevalent.

  
  Again, it's additional communication. There's no proof it has replaced face to face contact. I'd wager $100 those articles were written by people born before 1960 with old-fashioned views similar to yours and Belly's.
  
  They said the same thing when the telephone was invented. The people who gathered on the courthouse lawn or at the market to get their news surely declared the telephone was the devil.
• Con_Alma

  Steel Valley Football;1251288 wrote:Again, it's additional communication. There's no proof it has replaced face to face contact. I'd wager $100 those articles were written by people born before 1960 with old-fashioned views similar to yours and Belly's.
  
  They said the same thing when the telephone was invented. The people who gathered on the courthouse lawn or at the market to get their news surely declared the telephone was the devil.

  It's impacting the face to face communication that does take place. It also can reduce the amount and the desire to communicate verbally and face to face. Social netwroking is a less formal form of communications and the frequency of it tends to lessen the formal nature of face to face and verbal communications.
  
  The telephone did also have an impact on the way we communicate today.
• Steel Valley Football

  Con_Alma;1251294 wrote:It's impacting the face to face communication that does take place. It also can reduce the amount and the desire to communicate verbally and face to face. Social netwroking is a less formal form of communications and the frequency of it tends to lessen the formal nature of face to face and verbal communications.
  
  The telephone did also have an impact on the way we communicate today.

  
  The bolded part is not a logical statement. It makes almost no sense at all.
  
  The rest is simply change. "Impacted" means changed, the result of that change is open to interpretation. You're old so you think it's negative. It's all relative.
• Steel Valley Football

  Con_Alma;1251294 wrote:It's impacting the face to face communication that does take place. It also can reduce the amount and the desire to communicate verbally and face to face. Social netwroking is a less formal form of communications and the frequency of it tends to lessen the formal nature of face to face and verbal communications.
  
  The telephone did also have an impact on the way we communicate today.

  
  The bolded part is not a logical statement. It makes almost no sense at all.
  
  The rest is simply change. "Impacted" means changed, the result of that change is open to interpretation. You're old so you think it's negative. It's all relative.
• Con_Alma

  I think it's negative? Hmmmm. O.K. Lol.
  
  It's different. It's convenience and frequency influences the reverent nature of past communication.
  
  I agree that impacted does indeed mean change.
• Cher

  IM ALWAYS SENDIN PIX OF MY VAG TO BOYS
• Steel Valley Football

  Con_Alma;1251309 wrote:I think it's negative? Hmmmm. O.K. Lol.
  
  It's different. It's convenience and frequency influences the reverent nature of past communication.
  
  I agree that impacted does indeed mean change.

  
  The connotation in your posts suggest a negative opinion of new communication means.
  
  Other than that, the content of your numerous posts simply says: there are new means of communicating and it's changing the way people communicate.
  
  Very nice job today.
• Con_Alma

  Communications will always be shifting and changing...sometimes due to technology... sometimes due to culture. That doesn't mean that it's necessarily negative nor positive. Sometimes it can be both.
  
  The inverse can also occur. What I mean by that is that the manner in which we communicate can either be a positive or negative influence on culture. The two are interdependent on each other.
• Steel Valley Football

  Con_Alma;1251338 wrote:Communications will always be shifting and changing...sometimes due to technology... sometimes due to culture. That doesn't mean that it's necessarily negative nor positive. Sometimes it can be both.
  
  The inverse can also occur. What I mean by that is that the manner in which we communicate can either be a positive or negative influence on culture. The two are interdependent on each other.

  
  Now you're going in circles. You're post above suggested a negative connotation about our youth and changing communication methods. No more circles going forward, please.
• rmolin73

  

  Cher;1251327 wrote:IM ALWAYS SENDIN PIX OF MY VAG TO BOYS

  Stop scaring kids with that old crusty vag.
• Con_Alma

  Steel Valley Football;1251478 wrote:Now you're going in circles. You're post above suggested a negative connotation about our youth and changing communication methods. No more circles going forward, please.

  What?
  
  It can be both. It can be negative and I have seen signs of that in our youth who have not had the opportunity to develop interpersonal skills before heavily turning to the convenience of what we now refer to as social networking.
  
  That's one example...one new change in communications. The post you quoted above was a continuation and expansion of our conversation and was wider in scope. It stated that communications methods "in general" will always be changing. Sometimes it influences culture and sometimes culture initiates the change in communications forms. In addition, there are times those changes are for the better and there are times they are worse.
  
  There's no circle there. What do you mean by that?
• Steel Valley Football

  A circle has no end point. That's how conversations with you go. I'll decline today.
• 2kool4skool

  

  lol at you crusty old losers
• thavoice

  gut;1250840 wrote:The absolute worst is seeing a couple at a restaurant both looking at their phone.
  
  Interesting that they call it "social networking" when it's rather anti-social (or at least, impersonal) interaction.

  Heard on the radio yesterday that some restuarant in LA is giving a 5% discount off if you turn in your cell phone when you get there.
• Con_Alma

  thavoice;1252049 wrote:Heard on the radio yesterday that some restuarant in LA is giving a 5% discount off if you turn in your cell phone when you get there.

  That's very creative.
• thavoice

  THE4RINGZ;1250857 wrote:5 posts into this thread and no one has mentioned that they were texting thavoice's wife while she was at the party? You people are slipping.

  The best part of it was she didnt go. Took her youngest son...of whom didnt want to leave because he was having so much fun, and when the bitch said something to me when I got home he told her "dont yell at him, I was having too much fun to leave"
• thavoice

  Pick6;1251188 wrote:I'm reading this from my phone.
  
  
  Kind of ironic that y'all are bitching about "heads being into electronic devices" and social networking and you are doing it right now. Yes I consider posting on forums to be a form of social networking.

  Eh. Not really. I am not posting on the OC while I am at home with the family, or around friends or family, or anything like that. I believe there is a diff in doing these type of things when you are with a group of people and ignoring them compared to when the person is not around anyone.
• thavoice

  Steel Valley Football;1251265 wrote:I think you have mistakenly labeled the ADDITION of communication means as REPLACEMENT of the existing communication means.
  
  I visit and call from my house, my mom, who lives 2.5 hrs away, the same amount as I did 15 years ago. However, additionally, I text her and video chat. I also can call her when I'm AWAY from home now because I have a mobile phone, where as before I did not.
  
  The same is true of kids today. They still see their friends at school and interact the same as they did twenty years ago. They still hang out after school and at social events; movies, football games, etc. However, in ADDITION to that, they call, text and facebook/internet chat during that time and in the later hours. Twenty years ago, that extra communication in the later hours did not exist; other than via telephone.

  I went through a 10 week period where I had no ability to communicate by phone or email and it was all writing, and those letters from me, and to me, were definantly more in dept then the nonchelant texting messages that we see all the FN time now.
  
  This is what is happening nowadays. A person is with group A of friends, family, etc. He/she is then texting group B, C and D. WHen that person is with group B then they are texting the other groups.
  
  It is disrespectful when you see people with their family, or a group of friends, and they are more busy texting other groups of people instead of talking, interacting with those they are with.
  The interpersonal face-to-face communication skills suck anymore because people are too reliant on texting.
  
  
  It all started with the answering machine! Remember the day when you would hope to get the machine instead of talking to someone? THen it went the way of voicemail, email and now its instant with texting/facebooking.
• Steel Valley Football

  thavoice;1252057 wrote:I went through a 10 week period where I had no ability to communicate by phone or email and it was all writing, and those letters from me, and to me, were definantly more in dept then the nonchelant texting messages that we see all the FN time now.
  
  This is what is happening nowadays. A person is with group A of friends, family, etc. He/she is then texting group B, C and D. WHen that person is with group B then they are texting the other groups.
  
  It is disrespectful when you see people with their family, or a group of friends, and they are more busy texting other groups of people instead of talking, interacting with those they are with.
  The interpersonal face-to-face communication skills suck anymore because people are too reliant on texting.
  
  
  It all started with the answering machine! Remember the day when you would hope to get the machine instead of talking to someone? THen it went the way of voicemail, email and now its instant with texting/facebooking.

  
  Please don't state your personal opinion as fact. You've provided only speculation and personal opinion here.
• Steel Valley Football

  thavoice;1252053 wrote:Eh. Not really. I am not posting on the OC while I am at home with the family, or around friends or family, or anything like that. I believe there is a diff in doing these type of things when you are with a group of people and ignoring them compared to when the person is not around anyone.

  
  Eh. Yes, it is. Message boards are a form of social media/networking. What YOU do personally on them is irrelevant.
• thavoice

  Your example of using the cell phone to keep in contact with your mother, and doing so more often then you had before cell phones, is a bit different then what I am talking about in this thred.
  
  I know you are always on my nutz to disagree with everything I say, but you dont always have to automatically disagree because I am a pathetic person.
  
  
  The point of this thread isnt about keeping in touch with people like you mentioned, it is how people nowadays are more likely to just ignore the people they are in the presence of to communicate with others. The new fangled ways of communication has def helped keep in touch with people you dont see often.
  
  The point of it, and you no doubt have seen it, is when you together with others and/or se a group of people and they are doing more playing on their phones texting, FB and such then communicating with those they are around at that point
• thavoice

  Steel Valley Football;1252082 wrote:Eh. Yes, it is. Message boards are a form of social media/networking. What YOU do personally on them is irrelevant.

  Uh. Yeah. I never said they werent.
  
  The difference, and see if you can get this in your head, is when a person is doing these things.
  
  A. WHen you are with a group of people, friends, family, etc .
  B. WHen you are not around anyone.
  
  In the first example you are ignoring those who you are in the physical presence of, and in the second one you are not.
  
  YOu really cannot be that dumb can you?
• Steel Valley Football

  thavoice;1252085 wrote:Your example of using the cell phone to keep in contact with your mother, and doing so more often then you had before cell phones, is a bit different then what I am talking about in this thred.
  
  I know you are always on my nutz to disagree with everything I say, but you dont always have to automatically disagree because I am a pathetic person.
  
  
  The point of this thread isnt about keeping in touch with people like you mentioned, it is how people nowadays are more likely to just ignore the people they are in the presence of to communicate with others. The new fangled ways of communication has def helped keep in touch with people you dont see often.
  
  The point of it, and you no doubt have seen it, is when you together with others and/or se a group of people and they are doing more playing on their phones texting, FB and such then communicating with those they are around at that point

  thavoice;1252090 wrote:Uh. Yeah. I never said they werent.
  
  The difference, and see if you can get this in your head, is when a person is doing these things.
  
  A. WHen you are with a group of people, friends, family, etc .
  B. WHen you are not around anyone.
  
  In the first example you are ignoring those who you are in the physical presence of, and in the second one you are not.
  
  YOu really cannot be that dumb can you?

  
  The only thing you are saying is in your opinion you don't like when peole do it. So what? Thats my point. Mind your own business and let other people do what they want to do, socially speaking. Social mores and customs have changed and will continue to change. Who cares if you don't like it, personally? Not me!