7 Reasons the 21st Century is Making You Miserable

towel401

I was going to post this in the 'Asking someone out' thread but it really deserves its own thread.although its been around for a while now. I know its probably far too long for most people here who have the attention span of half a goldfish but have a read off it anyway particularly #3 on the list :pac:

http://www.cracked.com/article_15231_7-reasons-21st-century-making-you-miserable.html

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javaboy

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Latchy

That's it I'm staying of Boards for a week ............Ok a day !

Shacklebolt

you know you live in 2006 when...

1. You go to a party, sit down and take Bebo pics.
2. You havent played solitaire with real cards in years.
3. The reason for not staying in touch with your friends is that they don't have Bebo/MySpace.
4. You'd rather look all over the house for the remote instead of just pushing the button on the TV.
5. Your evening activity is sitting at the computer

Bit out of date I know but I remember my friend put this in her blog a few years back.

m83

Shacklebolt wrote: »

you know you live in 2006 when...

1. You go to a party, sit down and take Bebo pics.
2. You havent played solitaire with real cards in years.
3. The reason for not staying in touch with your friends is that they don't have Bebo/MySpace.
4. You'd rather look all over the house for the remote instead of just pushing the button on the TV.
5. Your evening activity is sitting at the computer

Bit out of date I know but I remember my friend put this in her blog a few years back.

Shouldn't this be point 6?

Shacklebolt

m83 wrote: »

Shouldn't this be point 6?

I suppose it is in a way.

Another thing about this decade there are way too many hoodies around... I can still remeber when they a slight novelty but now for some people its their sole outfit.

towel401

was it a real blog or one of those yokes that comes with some ****ty social networking service?

Latchy

Shacklebolt wrote: »

I suppose it is in a way.

Another thing about this decade there are way too many hoodies around... I can still remeber when they a slight novelty but now for some people its their sole outfit.

Something I am always commenting on .It's like an army of hoddies and the chinese in their pajamas ,they are everywere

javaboy

towel401 wrote: »

was it a real blog or one of those yokes that comes with some ****ty social networking service?

You know you're living in the 21st century when you see blog-snobbery.:D

towel401

javaboy wrote: »

You know you're living in the 21st century when you see blog-snobbery.:D

my blog is better than your blog.

javaboy

towel401 wrote: »

my blog is better than your blog.

By default yes it is.

Shacklebolt

towel401 wrote: »

was it a real blog or one of those yokes that comes with some ****ty social networking service?

The latter.

Piste

I excpected that article to be a really smartarse trying-to-be-funny commentary on the 21st century, but it's all depressingly true

BlitzKrieg

its actually depressing how much that article rings true in parts of my life right now.


Really depressing.

though I wouldnt say it extends to just the internet.

I have a real hard time just getting my friends to argue with me alot of the time...

Steve.Pseudonym

That's an excellently written and insightful piece. Kudos all around.

I especially liked this, what with all the Israel/Palestine stuff flying around here the past few days:

...where before we disagreed because we saw the same news and interpreted it differently, now we disagree because we're seeing completely different freaking news. When we can't even agree on the basic facts, the differences become irreconcilable.

Toiletroll

towel401 wrote: »

I was going to post this in the 'Asking someone out' thread but it really deserves its own thread.although its been around for a while now. I know its probably far too long for most people here who have the attention span of half a goldfish but have a read off it anyway particularly #3 on the list :pac:

http://www.cracked.com/article_15231_7-reasons-21st-century-making-you-miserable.html

The rapid progression of the New World Order

The_Minister

Great article OP.

Some of it applies to me.

Naos

Excellent article - a lot of it makes sense. Bookmarked it for future rereading.

CuLT

*hastily pulls curtain back into place over point 4*

Nothing to see here folks, keep posting away.

Wibbs

I gotta agree with a lot of that. I'm an oul fella so I avoided most of the isolation aspect of the online world. Basically it was after my time, so I've got really close mates and I've had enough edges knocked off me through the rough and tumble of having to deal with people one way or another, bad or good.

My generation kinda got teh best of both worlds in some ways. Goes for education too. Now people have far more access to easy information than I would have dreamt of as an 18 year old. Yet the same questions and more seem to be asked. The info is there, but the need or ability to filter is overwhelming or something to a lot of people.

One thing I have seen in some younger types, especially young men. No or fewer brakes on their public persona, because they didn't get slapped socially(or actually in some cases) when they needed the rough edges smoothed off. OK I may be an arshole now, but I would have been a far worse one if that hadn't happened(hard to believe I know...).

I also see more young men who simply can't talk to women. Never mind pick them up. Just talking. Every bloke goes through some stage where he gets tongue tied, but it does seem worse nowadays. Women seem to be much better at establishing their social personalities for some reason. IMHO anyway.

Zebra3

1. We can't party like it's 1999. :mad:

InkSlinger67

Shacklebolt wrote: »

I suppose it is in a way.

Another thing about this decade there are way too many hoodies around... I can still remeber when they a slight novelty but now for some people its their sole outfit.

wtf is wrong with hoodies? Speaking as a smoker and not as a scumbag hanging around for mothers to leave the post office on 'Mickey-Money Monday'. They provide ma heed with much needed warmth while out smoking a fag on these cold nights - well its either that or have my family breath in my toxic cloud of death while smoking indoors.

Great article btw OP! Good find

cornbb

Its an interesting article, but it really only has relevance for people whose lifes are centred 100% around the internet. I'd wager the vast majority of people reading thread this have more RL friends than internet friends....

BlitzKrieg

cornbb wrote: »

I'd wager the vast majority of people reading thread this have more RL friends than internet friends....

YES!

of course we do..

*cough*

ehmm

towel401

cornbb wrote: »

Its an interesting article, but it really only has relevance for people whose lifes are centred 100% around the internet. I'd wager the vast majority of people reading thread this have more RL friends than internet friends....

nope it has to do with real life as well. even if you dont spend any time online, don't ever text anyone and don't use an iPod to avoid talking to people you will still deal with people who do. the article goes a long way to explain why people these days are the way they are. the dating thread reminded me of it because girls prefer a text apparently. the text is easier to ignore and therefore people who can't deal with awkward situations prefer them

Hellm0

There is a great book on this subject by Alain De Button,"Status Anxiety" it's called. Doesn't cover all of the reasons proposed by the author of that article but rather approaches discontent in society from more of a philosophical point of view.