| | Am I the only one turned off by technology?Page 1 of 5 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) | I mean shit... they've got a cellphone, GPS, laptop, and I pod... but he has to get the Iphone? Is anyone one else turned off by all this technology? Is it wrong to want a man who can follow a map and listens to the radio?
I almost feel that is impossible to find a man that doesn't have too many gadgets or play video games...reasonably close to my age. I know boys like toys or whatever... am I just being judgmental, jealous, or does anyone else have these issues.
Guys are always asking me to text, it's like: um... if I have something important enough to say, I'll call your ass, and I expect the same courtesy. Nothing worse than having a guy glued to a GPS the whole time we're going down the road. | |
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| Am I the only one turned off by technology?
Posted: 5/3/2010 8:59:24 AM | | I don't think anything is wrong with you for this. Personally, I thought I was the only one behind in the times as far as technology goes. My cell phone doesn't even have a camera. I still like cd's and internet radio. I don't own a GPS and abhor video games. | |
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Posted: 5/3/2010 9:30:40 AM | Considering your age, I'm surprised -- and oddly pleased -- that this would annoy you. Frankly, a lot of technology annoys the crap out of me. Nothing worse than some guy my age glued to his iphone or wearing one of those retarded Bluetooth things in his ear proclaiming how "important" he is. Is he expecting a call from the president? Or worse yet, he's a texter. And I mean that's his only form of communication. There's a time and a place for technology ... it's generally not on a date.
And if you find a man who can actually follow a map and listens to the radio, see if he has a dad you can send my way ...  | |
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Posted: 5/3/2010 10:03:14 AM | My advice to you: careful what you wish for.
There have been several women I've dated who were originally pleasantly surprised by the fact that I don't own a dozen gadgets; that I'm not into video- or computer games at all, and I don't even own a TV (okay, some do find the last bit a little strange, but most seem to think it's a refreshing change--at first).
They soon found out that my world is chock-full of theorems, lemmas and proofs, equations scribbled on bits of paper lying all over the place, intense political activism, frequent visits to the US and other governments' portals to keep up with legislative and judicial activity, an insatiable hunger for news from around the world and for quirky writing and artistic websites and blogs, a taste in literature and cinema that can be quite far removed from the mainstream, etc., etc. And they ultimately realised that most of the above wasn't quite their cup of tea--and neither was I.
I strive to avoid gross generalisations and lazy stereotypes, but the fact of the matter is that in my experience and after several years' worth of observation, men are much more likely to have highly specialised and narrow tastes on mainly impersonal subjects and pursuits compared to women, while the latter category of people is much more concerned with making human connections and working on relationships, and women tend to expend a great deal more physical and mental effort pursuing these activities.
You might very well find out some day that the WoW playing, fancy gadget wielding compulsive texter-g33k is actually a lot closer to your own world than a self-proclaimed and unabashed uber-n3rd like me who often forgets to text, let alone call--just sayin'. | |
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Posted: 5/3/2010 10:23:54 AM | I like technology
The problem with guys who have all the toys is
Men in general are not good multi taskers
They focus on one thing at the time
If they have, whatever gizmo in their hand, they don't pay attention
to anybody else aorund them.
So they walk like little zombies, with a blackberry or Iphone or gps and you can get them to hear a word you are saying.
I have a few friends like that
I don't hang out with them anymore
Because is like being with an autistic person
Always texting someone who is NOT in the room and ignoring the ones who are.
Poking at the gps, checking their Iphone.
It's just boring, | |
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Posted: 5/3/2010 10:26:45 AM | I don't watch tv, I do love my iPhone though. I rarely use my computer anymore, except to convert movies for my iPhone. Txting/calling/fb/msn whatever. I'm available 24/7. No videogames here. You'll find me out biking 2 hours a day, or hiking here and there. I'm not one to sit on my ass and WoW all day.
posted from my iPhone. | |
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Posted: 5/3/2010 10:34:34 AM | Amen!
While I am hopelessly addicted to the internet at home, I have to say the following:
I have a cell phone, but it is always turned off. I only have it for emergencies away from home (like ordering Chinese take-out). When I am away from home, I am busy doing something besides talking on the phone and generally don't care to be disturbed unless it involves plans to meet someone someplace.
I don't text, and to those few people to whom I give my cell number, I tell them I don't text. If you have to contact me, call me and tell me in real time. Otherwise, it can wait and/or I'm not interested.
I can follow a map, and I listen to the radio. I will confess to printing out a page from Mapquest if I'm going to someone's home where I've never been before. | |
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Posted: 5/3/2010 10:52:13 AM | i love technology, but it is what i do. with that said, i still listen to the radio and i never use a gps when i travel anymore. i love to get lost on the bike and find new roads by accident. i have used a gps in the past, but became a bit of a slave to it and i didnt like that.
men that enjoy gadgetry is not a problem unless their women are not receiving attention and they are using gadgetry to get away from them, but that is usually a symptom of another problem and has absolutely nothing to do with the technology. if it wasnt technology then it would be some other man cave or safety zone where you could be ignored.
for the record..... i have a desktop computer, laptop, netbook, ipod touch, ps3 gaming console and i enjoy my audio equipment, my motorcycle, my project cars and other various hobbies.......but i also spend a great deal of time with my girlfriend (when there is one in the picture). we shower together, cook together, work in the yard together, sleep together (obviously, lol), etc.
oh and one more thing, i hardly ever use the 50 minutes that i have for a plan on my cell anymore, which as i look around me daily, i seem to be the odd one.
both genders are guilty of escape from their significant other in some form or another....gadgetry is just one of the things used to do it.
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Posted: 5/3/2010 11:48:16 AM | I find many women are the same way..
I have a computer and a land line so..I must be Wilma Flintstone.
I still think it is sexy to hand write a note or letter and seal it with wax..make it smell divine..Ahhhhh Sparking and wooing..
I miss the old way, it seemed it took more thought and effort.
Listening to the radio in the car and singing loudly and laughing..
BBBBBBennie and the jets..Bennie Bennie * sigh*
I would like to teach the world..what to do with cell phones..
I pods and the like. | |
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Posted: 5/3/2010 12:16:38 PM | Being a girl who loves balance in life, on one hand I do appreciate technology that got us even here to PoF but on the other hand my antidote to my working "PC world" including PoF as my leisure & pleasure time ... is spending the weekends or holidays as much time as I can in the fresh air.
Saying goes, absence makes hearts grow fonder and what once used to be a sooo much awaiting letter or very expensive halfway round the world phone call there are now plenty of avenues how to keep glowing and smiling.
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Posted: 5/3/2010 12:18:12 PM | | As annoying as it may seem, the world has come to this. I knew we were in trouble when last semester at the College I was standing in line for the Scholarship office and there was a sign that said " have your Grant/Scholarship award sent to your cell phone. Call this number and a text confirmation will be sent to you...blah blah blah. " Now, I am not going to denying texting. It comes in handy with friends and family when we are unable to pick up a phone and call. However, I agree a lot of things of this nature are abused as well. A of people live in texting period. And it is only getting worse. Makes you wonder what is happening or going to happen to the future workforce, etc. Next thing you know the Dali Lama will be texting someone to add him to Twitter or Face Book. Another thing that is out of control; all these damn web sites. I do NOT belong to any of them. | |
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Posted: 5/3/2010 12:19:43 PM | happy_go_lucky beat me to the draw. beware of wishing for a luddite. i'd go crazy trying to deal with someone who didn't own a cell phone.
Next thing you know the Dali Lama will be texting someone to add him to Twitter or Face Book.
bast@rd hacked my visa account, a thousand bucks' worth of orange robes and head razors fedexed to tibet!
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Posted: 5/3/2010 12:25:28 PM | It's not just men OP. I've observed plenty women addicted to their Blackberries too.
I've been on dates where the woman starts replying to emails on her Blackberry.
I'm only turned off with people who can't give the technology a rest.
That includes weenie losers with those bluetooth ear pieces... which in my opinion are the WORST because you can't tell they're on the phone. You think they're talking to you... or maybe you think that they're a nutter who talks to themselves... but then you see the ear piece and think... 'Ah... Gadget Weenie who doesn't know how to give it a rest'.
As a tech person myself, I think some people rely too much on technology instead of their own wits and ability to think and remember things for themselves.
Personally I feel like a rebel as I don't own a singe game console or laptop. And I only have a basic TV package. And that's factoring in that my kids have begged me at times to get a better cable package and/or a particular game console. I do have a couple of desktop PCs and a Blackberry that my work pays for. But in my case, I am actually on call... which is what Blackberries were for originally. | |
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Posted: 5/3/2010 12:48:15 PM | Not me...I LOVE all the new technology...I'm constantly fascinated.
The problem isn't the technology, the problem is the people who use
and abuse it.
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Posted: 5/3/2010 1:07:53 PM | I'm only turned off by people using technology to avoid thinking. Technology isn't inherently good or bad, however, there are gadget freaks who are slaves to technology rather than vice-versa.
I almost feel that is impossible to find a man that doesn't have too many gadgets or play video games...reasonably close to my age. I know boys like toys or whatever..
It's not just guys. My gf is the one with the gadgets and who plays video games. I actually find that convenient at times, since I make her operate the remote control for the tv. | |
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Posted: 5/3/2010 1:58:07 PM | Uh sarah, can you please call my daughter and repeat this!
Yeah in some ways I'm tech savy, I use multiple computers during the day for various business things. I own a cell phone and use it.
But then the dinosaur in me kicks in!
Until a few weeks ago, I didn't store a single number in my cell phone, I merely memorized the odd 35 to 40 numbers I use most frequently(thanks daughter, the storing isn't such a bad thing). However I text at the speed of... well actually no speed at all. I find that it usually takes me about 5 minutes to spell out 3 words, then the 3rd word is spelt wrong, so if I "WERE" to text, I'd start over.
My daughters text at the speed of light, my older one, a computer and technology wiz. Can actually text with one hand and still work the keyboard on her laptop with the other! LOL Most times when I receive a text, I "call back" and say what I have to.
This is usally greeted by my girls saying "oh dad, you gotta get with it"!
I don't own a GPS, my directional sense is just fine. I usually when going somewhere new just look on mapquest, before I leave, I 99.99% of the time remember the directions.
When I'm online for POF or work, I'm fine, but I like being IRL as well and don't really feel the urge to be hooked into anything other than my seatbelt in my car.
Guess I'll never change, see dinosaur!
Oh and PS, my only video game I played with regularity was 20 something years ago. It was "River Raid", think it was an atari or something. Frankly I'd rather talk, read or think, than to sit through mind numbing endless hours of killing sh1t, or racing stolen cars. | |
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Posted: 5/3/2010 2:02:05 PM |
I merely memorized the odd 35 to 40 numbers I use most frequently
ha. i sometimes think about the old days, when i would memorize new phone numbers. i only know half a dozen, all from the pre-cell era. if i lost my handset and all my numbers, i'd be screwed. | |
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Posted: 5/3/2010 2:04:26 PM | My ex-girlfriend (who was a few years younger but I don't think that matters much considering my best friend is a few years older and acts almost the same as her) was so addicted to her cell phone that she could not turn it off for 2 hours to watch her favorite movie in a theater. Every 5 minutes, she'd peek into her purse and the inside would suddenly light up. It was annoying, but it was also sad. Heck, during the 6 hours she spent breaking up with me, she was texting every 10 minutes in between the tears, pleading and condemnations. She may have been the worst cell phone addict I have ever met, so maybe she's just an extreme case (curiously, she did not own a cell phone when I met her! However, she was fully addicted by the time I started dating her).
I'm not turned off by technology, but some people get way carried away with it. It also depends on what the technology is -- extreme cell phone addiction seems to be pretty common in this country, but GPS addiction is a new one on me and borderline questionable behavior. Video game and internet addiction probably falls somewhere in between. Anyone addicted to most or all of these things... hmm... Me, personally, I almost never use any of those things unless I have to. I can go days without using my cell phone. I'm also not usually on the internet continuously (unless involved in a seriously interesting Plenty of Fish Forum thread...) | |
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Posted: 5/3/2010 2:19:34 PM |
I mean shit... they've got a cellphone, GPS, laptop, and I pod... but he has to get the Iphone? Is anyone one else turned off by all this technology?
lol, i just got a cell phone a few years ago.....and I barely take it anywhere with me or i leave it in the car.
In the past I said it turned me off but I'm open minded it about it now. I don't care for expensive gadgets i don't know how to use or care to learn but I can tolerate if she's not all "I can't live without it" and can't put it down. | |
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Posted: 5/3/2010 3:29:17 PM | Gadgets are cool
It's bad manners what bother me!
It seems like nobody knows, gadget etiquette.
Very simple
Put whatever stuff you have in your hands DOWN when you are spending time with friends or relatives!
Why do you ask to hang out if you are paying atttention to other people who are NOT around?
It's OK to check you messages or texts but do you really have to constantly text back?
With a few of my friends I learned to stay home, they text and call me ALL the time, while there is another poor sap, sittig there at the coffe house, next to them being ignored! | |
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Posted: 5/3/2010 3:35:27 PM | | It seems to be human nature to be in love with toys, starting in the crib. But in this day and age technology has taken over common sense and people really don't communicate very well. What bothers me most is people driving and talking on a phone, it's so incredibly dangerous. Or pedestrians talking on a phone and not paying attention to the light, totally unaware of cars. | |
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| Am I the only one turned off by technology?
Posted: 5/3/2010 3:40:19 PM | I mean shit... they've got a cellphone, GPS, laptop, and I pod... but he has to get the Iphone? Is anyone one else turned off by all this technology? Is it wrong to want a man who can follow a map and listens to the radio?
I almost feel that is impossible to find a man that doesn't have too many gadgets or play video games...reasonably close to my age. I know boys like toys or whatever... am I just being judgmental, jealous, or does anyone else have these issues.
Guys are always asking me to text, it's like: um... if I have something important enough to say, I'll call your ass, and I expect the same courtesy. Nothing worse than having a guy glued to a GPS the whole time we're going down the road
Guys are guys. We love our gadgets, we love our game consoles, we love our GPS and our Blackberries. Get used to it or go find yourself an 62 year old former pervert to date.
You're not going to find a guy - a real guy - who doesn't dig the gadgets. Unless he's a fairy like homo in which case he wouldn't want you anyway. | |
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Posted: 5/3/2010 3:44:00 PM | OK WHO THE F**** ARE YOU TO TEASE ME ABOUT MY BLUETOOTH EARPIECE WHEN I'M RISKING A GD BRAIN TUMOR TO KEEP YOU SAFE WHEN I'M BEHIND THE WHEEL. THERES A SILVER LINING TO EVERY CLOUD AND A DAMN TELEPHONE WITH GPS COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE.
That guy that got lost and frozen like a popsicle would have been alive had he had a freaking GPS in his phone. Stop hating ...guys need entertainment. Trust me you're gonna be bored our your freakin' mind after 10 years of the same guy. Enjoy your free time because we don't do nothing but get crankier and more sedentary as we get older. You're gonna wish your man would STFU for a change and pick his phone up or play a GD game.
ker'plunk my $.02
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