You know you are living in 2004 when...

Zoe

Where'd That 6th Toe Come From?
YOU KNOW YOU'RE LIVING IN 2004 WHEN.....

1. You accidentally enter your pin number on the
microwave.

2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in
years.

3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your
family of 3.

4. You e-mail your friend who works at the desk next
to you.

5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends
is that they do not have e-mail addresses.

6. When you go home after a long day at work you still
answer the phone in a business manner

7. When you make phone calls from home, you
accidentally dial "9" to get an outside line.

8. You've sat at the same desk for four years and
worked for three different companies.

10. You learn about your layoff on the 11 o'clock
News.

11. Your boss doesn't have the ability to do your job.

12. Contractors outnumber permanent staff and are more
likely to get long-service awards.

.....And the real clinchers are...

13. You read this entire list, and kept nodding and
smiling.

14. As you read this list, you think about forwarding
it to your "friends."

15. You got this e-mail from a friend that never talks
to you any more, except to send you jokes from the
net.

16. You are too busy to notice there was no No. 9.

17. You actually scrolled back up to check that there
wasn't a No. 9.
 
welsh said:
:rofl:

nice one zoe!

Thanks, Welsh :)

Toresica and Dove: I do empathyze with you. Some people I know live in the same city and yet sometimes its faster and easier to get in touch with them by internet :D
 
Zoe said:
Toresica and Dove: I do empathyze with you. Some people I know live in the same city and yet sometimes its faster and easier to get in touch with them by internet :D

Why only sometimes?
Always!
 
Zoe said:
16. You are too busy to notice there was no No. 9.

17. You actually scrolled back up to check that there
wasn't a No. 9.
You got me there. :)
 
What can I say, this modern society thing is really hurting our people relation skills :lol: . It promised a brave new world and instead provided a lonely, sit all night in front of a screen fantasizing about the life you want instead of living it kind of world... :toilet:
Shure you tend to lose contact with your friends, I mean what happened to the good old days when kids used to play outside, making a huge racket, playing soccer and breaking at lest two windows per day :ok: ... those were the things that brought them together... now all they do is sit at home in front of their PC surfing the web, chatting and whatever. They are slowly, but surely losing touch with reality... you know what they say: life really sucks, then you die :twisted:
 
Man, you're absolutely right. That's the essence of today's reality.
People aren't used to that advanced technology yet and they are overusing it... huritng their own relationship with "outer world".
That's really sad, because I was on the best way to reach that state of existence, but I'm all right now :).
 
I agree, this is one of the problems.

Recently I was at a party where I was talking to some fairly attractive 22-26 year old grad girls who said that their dating lives had improved due to matchmaker and other on-line dating.

Meeting guys in bars or elsewhere was just to difficult while their chances of meeting someone nice actually improved on-line.

This isn't the first time I have heard this either. About 5 years ago it was something of a taboo or at least embarrassing to hook up on line, but now it seems pretty common.

Still, is this a better thing?
 
[Thread derailing]

Speaking with someone online lets you focus on what the other person has to say/ what you're saying.

Wouldn't 'hook up' online, though. Besides, most of my contacts on chat programmes are people that I see on a regular basis every week.

While it can be helpful and fun for some, I don't believe it could and will fully replace 'traditional' dating/hooking up.

I mean, look at the whole "cybersex" thing. I don't believe it can replace old-school sex. Even with the fancy hardware posted somewhere in the Order.
 
When it comes to interpersonal relations I favour the up close and personal approach, I want to talk to a person, not monitor, I want to know how, he/she look, how she reacts to what I say etc. I don't like talking trying to hook up with someone on the net because they are bound to offer a distorted image of themselves, and I don't like those kind of surprises.
 
In the real-life dates tou ara allmost sure if that person is interested in you, you can see her face, moves and all. On the net sometimes you talk simulatanously to five people. I don't think it works fine, it's just the lack of sacrifice.
 
Hmm...

Yeah I agree on the face to face thing, but sometimes it's easier for me to say things online, than it would be in person. Right now I'm doing both, and it seems that we are more talkative online than off.

And the misrepresentation isn't a factor since we met before we chatted online.
 
Well this subject has been kind of neglected. Come on guys, is this all you have to say? Are there no amusing bits of our modern hi-tech life that you can remember and that are worthy of a post?
How log has it been since you last went on a hike, spend a couple of days away from technology? I for one yearn for such an opportunity to relax and unwind...

Yeah I agree on the face to face thing, but sometimes it's easier for me to say things online, than it would be in person. Right now I'm doing both, and it seems that we are more talkative online than off.
And that is a really good thing! I'm not saying that tech is bad, but we must not loose touch with reality because of it. Behind that IP there is another human being and we should be able to interact with him/her directly just as easy as we do through the net. That is about it, for now anyway.
 
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