spilldig Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 I don't like the way anyone without a cell phone or the internet is becoming a non-person.OK if you want to use them,but nobody should have to use them just in order to live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danot Posted March 30, 2016 Author Share Posted March 30, 2016 A TV advert with thousands of helium ? ? just rekindled the childhood memory of me doing my ritualistic tying a 'pen friend note' to the string of my two day old Sheffield show ?. The world seemed much bigger those days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
francypants Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 I don't like the way anyone without a cell phone or the internet is becoming a non-person.OK if you want to use them,but nobody should have to use them just in order to live. :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANGELFIRE1 Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 " Pre-internet/digital age- anything you miss about it? " Just about everything. Angel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgtkate Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Pub quizzes are rubbish these days as so many people just look things up on their phones. I miss an honest pub quiz that tested what was in your and your mates heads rather than who can Google the best. Linked to that is never being to have a argument based upon beliefs without someone saying well I can prove you are wrong using the powers of the internet. What's wrong with a purely opinion based row at times? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinfoilhat Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Pub quizzes are rubbish these days as so many people just look things up on their phones. I miss an honest pub quiz that tested what was in your and your mates heads rather than who can Google the best. Linked to that is never being to have a argument based upon beliefs without someone saying well I can prove you are wrong using the powers of the internet. What's wrong with a purely opinion based row at times? You're right about the pub quizzes. My ability to remember the most pointless facts (sadly at the expense of useful stuff) has been replaced by smart phones. 10 years ago I was IMBD. "What we was he in?" they'd cry, "he was such and such plus a guest spot on law and order" I'd reply. Now it's tip tap tap "oh he was market trader in eastenders for two episodes in 1993". I can't compete with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingdom Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Playing out till dark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crookedspire Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 As much as I admire the Internet and its wealth of information I do think it has made people less sociable and face to face contact difficult for some. A while back I was in a pub nearly everyone was busy looking at their phones doing a text yet years ago everyone would be talking to each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Downsunder Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 It’s a constant battle, at the moment I’m holding my ground. I have a library of real books which I am constantly adding to and reading. I write real letters with a pen and paper which I send in envelopes with stamps on. However, these have been getting fewer in recent years as my relatives are gradually picked off by the internet. I don’t have any virtual friends, I don’t have i-pad, e-reader, ADSL, WiFi, eperb, GPS or any of that stuff. The only tablet I have is my daily asprin. I have a mobile phone which came with the job and will go with the job when I retire soon. The only concessions I make to the beast are e-mail, internet banking and 2 social media sites both beginning with Sheffield . . . (neither have street addresses or PO box numbers). Oh, and social services have just informed us that application for aged pension must be made on-line. My sympathies to all the posters in this topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister M Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 I worked in a newsagents many years ago. I don't miss that awkward moment of selling someone a copy of razzle. When I was a youngster in the early 80s, I used to be in 7th heaven of finding a mucky mag on the way back from school....I suppose with the internet, porn nowadays seems a bit passé Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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