Why do we do that?

2 Jul 2005

Quote by davej
Nope not offended in the slightest tune and I will bore the crap outa ya on this subject. I agree that we interact through these machines, but it's a different type of interaction that doesn't require the social skills of old, you've mentioned body language as an example. Right now we still understand body language, cos we have lived with it, but as the need to interact face to face with other people, becomes more rare, then those social skills get eroded. As we speak I have no real need to go to a shop, a bank, a post office to pay bills, there are folk that don't even need to go to a place of work, in truth the need for me to talk to another person is getting less and less.I can more or less do a lot of things I need to do, without needing to speak to another person with the click of a button and even if I wanted to speak to another person, that option is gradually being withdrawn as technology takes over. I just think that there are social implications that may not be for the best in the long run, if technology and it's development doesn't have a social agenda to consider....pie in the sky probably, but it bothers me.

That's what brought me to SH. Single mom working from home, so no real adult interaction or stimulation. Even my bills were all paid (well if I could afford to at the time) electronically too.
I had effectively isolated myself. Lived in a very small world of my kids, work and the web.
Oh...but how things have changed :twisted:
I'm distancing myself from this unhealthy relationship with FRED (Fucking Rediculous Electronic Device) and have literally thrown myself back onto the Real World.
Also, went to that Tony Robbins seminar, got home and was hit with the realisation of how well I had disconnected. I'd not only disconnected from society, but my family too.
Now, I'm reconnnecting. I'm friendly again and greeting people in the street, living in my happy little bubble. Doesn't matter if their fast paced modern lives tell them my happy energy is 'cause I'm do-lally. Dare they allow themselves to be effected is their choice. Me, I'd rather smile than scowl.

2 Jul 2005

What i don't like is when you give way to on coming car and they don't thank you..... mad

2 Jul 2005

I blame the parents :evil:
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2 Jul 2005

If I make the effort to pull over, let a car pass to ease the overall flow of traffic; I am slightly fucked off when they turn on the headlights full beam right up your nose and blind you with their megawatt halogens. Courtesy being rewarded with temporary torture. So I have to look away and this means I don't greet the eye of the other car driver, and therefore miss the whole point of spreading some good will.
Can't win sometimes.
However I did some work recently for a lovely lady in Kensington. having finished the job I complimented her and she accepted it in a way that not many people can or do these days. Real class.