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>I don't take pictures with my phone or use Facebook or Twitter. I don't want to become just another reporter of experiences like everyone else. I often feel t
by na85 12y ago
>I don't take pictures with my phone or use Facebook or Twitter. I don't want to become just another reporter of experiences like everyone else.
I often feel the same way, but then I wonder if that makes me avant-garde and enlightened, or just a curmudgeon stuck in the past.
- justathrow2k 12y agoPossibly the latter. In any event, there's certainly nothing inherently avant or enlightened about not sharing photos on social media.
- jschwartzi 12y agoI think there are two historical views of technology that people take. View 1 holds that any new technology is better because it saves time performing some task that used to take a long time previously. View 2 holds that any new technology is suspect unless it can be shown that there was truly no value in the time spent before the technology came about. I think there's value in both views, but I'm also more of a View 2 rather than View 1 person, and that's why I prefer not to do those things. I also don't own a microwave, toaster, or coffee maker. Instead I use a French Press and an oven. Realize that when you choose to do something differently from the way it was done in the past, there is necessarily a trade off to be made, either in your enjoyment of time, or the quality of your output, or both.
- ky3 12y agoIt makes you cautious. That's not a crime, is it?