People don’t live in the moment anymore

Balanadan · 04-03-2019 08:58PM #1

Anytime anything remotely interesting happens, people whip out their phones to record it, watching the event through their phone’s camera.

A video popped up on my Facebook feed of some fella dancing a jig in a pub, completely surrounded by zombies recording him.

Where’s the enjoyment in that?

What a waste of life.

Sad.

TheValeyard · 04-03-2019 09:00PM

I'd ban phones from my pub if I owned one. And I'd ban music.

Think I'm becoming an auld grouchy git.

amcalester · 04-03-2019 09:01PM

Watching a video of people recording a guy dancing.

Very meta.

buried · 04-03-2019 09:04PM

Handily imagine the monolith as a smartphone instead and Kubrick showed us the answer 50 years ago

LirW · 04-03-2019 09:04PM

"let's all watch that video of the firework from New year's Eve" - nobody ever.

04-03-2019 09:15PM

Those holding up phones at live concerts should be tarred and feathered.

Force Carrier · 04-03-2019 09:17PM

I'd love to live in the moment.
I have a great ambition to maybe do it some day.

TheValeyard · 04-03-2019 09:17PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Those holding up phones at live concerts should be tarred and feathered.

you forgot beaten with sticks

Hoboo · 04-03-2019 09:18PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Those holding up phones at live concerts should be tarred and feathered.

Should be zero tolerance, kicked out

amcalester · 04-03-2019 09:34PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Those holding up phones at live concerts should be tarred and feathered.

Or worse, an iPad. In ****ing portrait mode.

Ficheall · 04-03-2019 09:37PM

Balanadan wrote: »

A video popped up on my Facebook feed of some fella dancing a jig in a pub, completely surrounded by zombies recording him.

And in another pub down the road, everyone in the pub was dancing, and there was no record of it for you. Confirmation bias at its absolute finest.

mad muffin · 04-03-2019 09:39PM

Not me. I rarely if ever get my phone out to take a photo or video. Most times it’s tomtake a photo of my family.

Your Face · 04-03-2019 09:41PM

Living in the moment is what gets me barred from pubs.

Robert McGrath · 04-03-2019 09:45PM

https://xkcd.com/1314/

ohfa6muwtsvkc1 · 04-03-2019 09:50PM

Robert McGrath wrote: »

https://xkcd.com/1314/

Yeah... he might have something on just photos but it's videos that are the killer.

Wibbs · 04-03-2019 09:58PM

Meh, people are just living in the moment of their time(and usually generation). To someone from a hundred years ago, people thirty years ago were slaves to TV/radio/records/fashion/whatever. To someone from a thousand years ago people from a hundred years ago would look like a a bunch of ADHD addled loonies rushing around. Phones at gigs? The previous generation would be holding Bic lighters up in the air burning their thumbs. Part of the shared experience. Nothing really changes save for the shock of the new, mostly to the old.

Irish Guitarist · 04-03-2019 09:59PM

There was a Paul McCartney concert on BBC a few years ago and the audience was full of people videoing him with their phones. They knew this concert was being professionally recorded and broadcast on television but they just had to capture some shitty video that no one will ever watch instead of just enjoying it.

Wibbs · 04-03-2019 10:02PM

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

There was a Paul McCartney concert on BBC a few years ago and the audience was full of people videoing him with their phones. They knew this concert was being professionally recorded and broadcast on television but they just had to capture some shitty video that no one will ever watch instead of just enjoying it.

It's got little to do with the videos IG, like I say it's the shared experience of the crowd, the mass of concert people. When he was in a small showband in his youth they were screaming their lungs out at him and his mates for no apparent reason. Everybody's doing it so you do too kinda thing.

doolox · 04-03-2019 10:11PM

As long as they do not place their overpriced hi tech toy in my way while I am viewing the concert stage and the spectacle taking place.

I recall years ago visiting a bay in Puerto Rico called phosphorescent bay.

In spite of many warnings not to video the natural phenomenon many stubborn people insisted on filming and using strong lighting to do so.

This phosphorescence is caused by tiny organisms and is only visible in the dark. It is noticeable in prop wash or other disturbed sea water in the wake of boats.

The videographers ruined the spectacle for the rest of the paying public on board.
Many venues now insist on sealing phones in bags to prevent use in concerts. Opened bags detected during an event can get you kicked out.

Sardonicat · 04-03-2019 10:15PM

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »

Deleted User wrote: »

Those holding up phones at live concerts should be tarred and feathered.

you forgot beaten with sticks

Dont forget to record it and post it here

TheValeyard · 04-03-2019 10:24PM

Sardonicat wrote: »

Dont forget to record it and post it here

Landscape mode

Effects · 04-03-2019 10:28PM

doolox wrote: »

As long as they do not place their overpriced hi tech toy in my way while I am viewing the concert stage and the spectacle taking place.

You have to be in the front row so.

Mister Vain · 04-03-2019 10:54PM

Wibbs wrote: »

Meh, people are just living in the moment of their time(and usually generation). To someone from a hundred years ago, people thirty years ago were slaves to TV/radio/records/fashion/whatever. To someone from a thousand years ago people from a hundred years ago would look like a a bunch of ADHD addled loonies rushing around. Phones at gigs? The previous generation would be holding Bic lighters up in the air burning their thumbs. Part of the shared experience. Nothing really changes save for the shock of the new, mostly to the old.

So true. Back in my day it was glow sticks at raves.

ArnoldJRimmer · 04-03-2019 11:16PM

Was in Washington DC a few years ago, and went into an Irish bar to watch a brilliant All Ireland semi final between Galway and Tipp. Got chatting to a lad from Galway, and pretty much watched the second half with him. Close to the end, we were getting quite animated with every piece of action. It was then that I noticed that his fiancee had her back to the TV, and was recording our reactions to every wide/ score. What an unbelievable annoying thing to do

Rothko · 04-03-2019 11:18PM

Wibbs wrote: »

Meh, people are just living in the moment of their time(and usually generation). To someone from a hundred years ago, people thirty years ago were slaves to TV/radio/records/fashion/whatever. To someone from a thousand years ago people from a hundred years ago would look like a a bunch of ADHD addled loonies rushing around. Phones at gigs? The previous generation would be holding Bic lighters up in the air burning their thumbs. Part of the shared experience. Nothing really changes save for the shock of the new, mostly to the old.

I think it's a lot worse now. People pay far more attention to their phones than they've ever done to television or radio. Back then, if you wanted to watch TV or listen to the radio, it was usually only possible at home or in the car. These days, phones are always within reach and so many people seem to be constantly glued to them. I can be guilty of this myself too.

With regards to gigs, I don't think many people would be holding up the lighters for the majority of a concert like I've seen some people doing with phones or iPads. Plus, lighters are nowhere near as distracting as a phone.

Mister Vain · 04-03-2019 11:27PM

Rothko wrote: »

I think it's a lot worse now. People pay far more attention to their phones than they've ever done to television or radio. Back then, if you wanted to watch TV or listen to the radio, it was usually only possible at home or in the car. These days, phones are always within reach and so many people seem to be constantly glued to them. I can be guilty of this myself too.

With regards to gigs, I don't think many people would be holding up the lighters for the majority of a concert like I've seen some people doing with phones or iPads. Plus, lighters are nowhere near as distracting as a phone.

Well phones aren't as distracting as holograms, which is what they'll have in the future.

branie2 · 04-03-2019 11:27PM

I live in the moment

ohfa6muwtsvkc1 · 04-03-2019 11:30PM

Wibbs wrote: »

Phones at gigs? The previous generation would be holding Bic lighters up in the air burning their thumbs.

Yeah, I'll never forget the numerous epic gigs/sunsets/<events> where people held alof their BICs and stared at them throughout the time, ignoring the actual event. Exactly the same as now. Yeah, totally the same.

Irish Guitarist · 04-03-2019 11:44PM

Crowds used to hold up lighters for ballads. They'd often move their hand to the beat of the music. It's a bit different than holding a phone in front of your face for the duration of the concert, paying no attention to what's happening and thinking "I'll be the envy of everyone I know when I put this on Facebook".

Sparklers were better though.

Rothko · 04-03-2019 11:49PM

Mister Vain wrote: »

Well phones aren't as distracting as holograms, which is what they'll have in the future.

Phones and holograms are completely different though.

Effects · 05-03-2019 10:01AM

Mister Vain wrote: »

Back in my day it was glow sticks at raves.

You don't really go to a rave to watch the DJ perform though.

People don’t live in the moment anymore

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