The new American Dream is if you stare at your phone hard enough and long enough, you might eventually feel something.
— Tim Siedell (@badbanana) November 24, 2014
The new American Dream is if you stare at your phone hard enough and long enough, you might eventually feel something.
— Tim Siedell (@badbanana) November 24, 2014
I guess I'm doing it wrong.
ReplyDeleteWhat the hell does that even mean?
ReplyDeleteI feel hungry. Is that what he meant?
ReplyDeleteOnly if you have your phone set to vibrate..
ReplyDeleteBrilliant Sugarbread !!!! You made me Literally Laugh Out Loud with people looking at me strangely......
Deleteif you stare at it long enough, it will eventually ring.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if he's talking about that article that came out a few days about the guy who developed an app that shuts down all of your "metrics" on FB (like how many people liked your post, how many people commented on it, etc.). The article was talking about we use our mobile devices and social media to define our worth and make us feel good. 2400 likes and you're worthy, 1 like from your mom and you're worthless. You can't "feel" until you're accepted.
ReplyDeleteI'd like this. Ya know, if we had a like button.
DeleteWell shit. He's right. Then again, I've been smoking the cheeb.
ReplyDeleteOT: Caught a clip of The Interview tonight on Letterman, and Franco is still adorable as hell when he wants to be. My Franco love is not completely dead yet!
It's that people don't interact like before, open themselves up for the strangers you see and possibly meet while people-watching because the bus is late/the movie was sold out/the wait for a table is long, for example. Now whenever people find themselves "unoccupied" for even SECONDS, they are checking something on their phones, and they miss out on the bits and pieces of life that can be random/unexpected/interesting/surprisingly fulfilling. My sister still corresponds with a lady she met in line for an open stall in the bathroom at an Olive Garden TWENTY YEARS AGO! Now everyone's just a stranger with a phone.
ReplyDeleteI think the people who don't understand the statement are the ones young enough to have always known today's technology.
ReplyDeleteOr the ones old enough that we only use our phones to make phone calls. I don't have Internet on my phone. Don't care to.
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