As far as I can tell, the children everyone is having now are going to be the first generation that will no longer have the same conveniences and inconveniences that I had growing up. Smartphones (anyone can know where you are at anytime), piracy is slowly being made more difficult (spend more of your money just to listen to your favorite bands, buy hundreds of dollars worth of software only to find out it doesn’t work for you), Facebook has consumed everyone’s life (fight harder to keep your relationships from going under just because of one comment). For the most part these advances in technology and government drunkenness with power is making life more difficult and annoying.
I’ve always fully supported the adoption of smartphones by everyone. There really are practical uses, but smartphones are giving people too much to do and not giving additional time to do it in. We use our phones more than we used to use our computers. I remember being addicted to instant messaging… that is now pretty much called texting. And with each advancement of the capabilities we become less and less patient. Texting can actually destroy relationships if you let it. If someone doesn’t text you back almost instantly, you start assuming the worst. Texting has given the clingy a new weapon in the war to end relationships.
Clinger: Hey baby!
(5 minutes later…)
Clinger: What is wrong with you?! Are you mad at me?!?!
(2 hours later and a few more texts from Clinger…)
Not-So-Significant-Other anymore: What are you talking about? I just woke up… I think we should see other people for a while.
I won’t really get too far into the piracy topic; just because I’m pretty sure anyone that doesn’t make money from whatever is being pirated is definitely pro-piracy. The companies that are against it are the ones that are greedy and power hungry. I’m sure they feel like they will soon become obsolete in the new ways of the world. Everything will become digital-only; except for the hipsters that still want to have the vinyls of new music even though the new music is produced with computers.
Then we have Facebook… I see it as nothing more than a way to waste time or a way to piss people off; most of the time you can accomplish both at the same time. My opinion of anyone that plays Farmville or any of the other silly games like that is this: kill yourself already. BUT if people didn’t play Farmville, Facebook wouldn’t make as much money and it might actually get shutdown due to only bringing in $500,000 a year instead of a million. Facebook is just an epicenter of human stupidity, it’s where grammar and tolerance goes to die. Just because it doesn’t feel like we are face to face with anyone, we can say whatever we want to to anyone. Racism comes out, sexism comes out, retardation comes out… If I had a nickel for every racial slur, grammar fuck up or misspelling that occurred… I would be a billionaire by now. Some people say drugs are bad… but Facebook is really the most addictive and dangerous drug because it hits every demographic and there is an endless supply of it.
