Maybe the kind of people that make ok-cupid accounts just tend to be the kind of people that are super attached to their phones and computers.
There could be tons and tons of people out there who don't care at all about computers and we just don't notice them because our lives are so completely different from theirs.
@justinhabit Maybe this hypothetical societal division will continue to grow until we have created two completely different subcultures that are so unique and so independent that they coexist in complete ignorance of one another. The ludites would think of the technophiles as if there were just legends, and the technophiles would assume that the ludites became extinct a long time ago.
@justinhabit Ha, I didn't even think of that! I don't know about your ludities/technophiles theory (although perhaps there's some truth to that), but I think there's definitely truth to the idea that the kind of people who use online dating websites would be more into their technology - and thus using technology for something that used to be done completely in person, dating. Now I want to ask various people the "six things you can't live without" question IRL and see how they answer.
I was born in 1986. I grew up with beepers still being popular. But I came to know cellphones to be useful for conducting business/work with associates. I still believe that, but text my girlfriend often. My worry is that technology has forced us to accept new ways of life: We will be more busy now, because we can spend less time in person with each other. I think technology has forced us into isolation more, yet it allows us to give a platonic projection of self.
@darkgreenranger I agree - I think people feel they know others better from what they can easily read on a facebook profile or twitter, but that's different from actually knowing a person, and we're spending less time with others in person.
i love that kaleidoscope is one of your favorite words; my grandparents actually sell kaleidoscopes, and i have a growing collection of my own. i think kale short for kaleidoscope would be awesome!
@erni414 That is so awesome!! Do they make the kaleidoscopes? Do they have their own kaleidoscope shop? I'm so jealous of your grandparents now, I think my future aspiration has just become kaleidoscope storekeeper.
@alyiswriting they don't make them, but they know most of the major kaleidoscope artists; they've been selling scopes for me than...25-30 years? I can't remember when they started- it started at their B&B, and now they just have the shop. The Brewster society is a big group of artists in the scope "revival" and they're members. the shop is the largest of any in the southeast, if not the country- they have more than 100 artists represented. kaleidoscopeshop com. it's basically amazing!
@erni414 Now I want to take a road trip to Atlanta solely to see this store. So cool. And there is a kaleidoscope convention in April!? And kaleidoscope-making classes with kaleidoscope artists? How did I never know any of these things existed?
I feel like it would be not impossible but certainly difficult to live without my mobile phone. I have access to the internet, I can connect to people in all kinds of ways, it helps me navigate, it can give me directions on where to buy what, or eat lunch or whatever, or if I just need to look up a word in the dictionary. Brilliant stuff.
Also, I was reminded about George from Seinfeld and his brilliant idea of a name for baby: Seven :)
@kablamo9999 People talking about their smart phones always make them sound so awesome. I think that's why I keep refusing to get one, I don't want to feel dependent on it. But they do sound pretty awesome. Especially when I venture to Boston and get lost walking around and could really use some directions...
I always thought it was odd that a lot of people said that they couldn't like without technology. I would really like to live off the grid for a while. It would seem like a relief.
And thank you so much for actually doing the survey! You're awesome! And I'm sorry your first kiss was awkward.
@Hellybot I think I'd also like to live off the grid for a while...but it's interesting that "living off the grid" is a decision that has to be made, a step that has to be taken, and, although perhaps it's for the better, it will disconnect a person from others in this day and age.
The survey was fun! I thought it was sweet that you tagged me! And I imagine any possible way that my first kiss could have occurred, I would describe it in hindsight as "awkward."
I'm the same way. I resisted Facebook for the longest time, then finally caved last year around March. My mom made me get a cellphone when I started driving. Texting annoys that crap out of me. But it's still useful.
One time I got lost in my town trying to find a Wiggles and Giggles, and had to pull over and ask a woman gardening for directions. She was a nice lady.
My first kiss was beside a red racecar bed. With about seven other people in the room. Taking that back would be nice...
@DreamerRealist Racecar bed!! I've never actually seen a racecar bed in real life, but I used to have this fantasy of my future life and I would have twin boys with racecar beds and I would write middle grade novels while sitting on their beds while they were at school. I love the name Charlotte! I forgot about that one. But I've known way too many Billy's, Will's, and William's in my life, haha.
@alyiswriting I don't know if I'll ever be able to get passed that memory. It's the one and only time I've ever seen a racecar bed in reality. I just think about William Turner and all of the other Williams kind of fade into the background.
@alyiswriting Yup. It was after my school's Cabaret at the end of November my grade nine year. I was in swing dance, and we all when to Chris's house for our own little swing dance after party. Note that he wasn't even in swing dance. He was just friends with people who were. So, anyway, most of us were able to go, and we just ended up eating and hanging out and playing videos games (or in my case, watching other people play video games) in his room, which had a racecar bed. And then he ended up
@DreamerRealist kissing me. It was slightly disappointing, because, as it turned out, I didn't actually like him, and we ended up dating for three months anyway, which was weird. But yes, that is how my first kiss happened on the floor against a racecar bed. With seven other people watching.
Also your first kiss doesn't sound like a kiss at all. 0_0
Unless I'm just misinformed about kissing.
NAMES! Pretty much some of the coolest names no one can name their child because of bad conotations. For instance, I happen to think Lucifer is a sweet name. But it's also Satan's name... so my family would disown me. Similar cool/taboo names are Cain, Judas, Saul, Absolom and Jezebel.
Also names from the Final Fantasy series are good, like Aeris.
@ShortenDavid Haha, oh no it was kissing, just very sloppy, gross, lick-y kissing...so I paraphrased in my description. Aeris is a neat name. I always find interesting names I like in movies and games and books, then I wonder if I could really pull off having a kid with that name...
Do I defy you by not doing it? Or do I defy your expectations and do it? Choices...
I think I'll go with the one that takes less effort.
thepeteris 4 months ago
ah, I love the name Kale! you should use that name :)
BlakesNo1 4 months ago
pre-selection!
Maybe the kind of people that make ok-cupid accounts just tend to be the kind of people that are super attached to their phones and computers.
There could be tons and tons of people out there who don't care at all about computers and we just don't notice them because our lives are so completely different from theirs.
justinhabit 4 months ago
@justinhabit Maybe this hypothetical societal division will continue to grow until we have created two completely different subcultures that are so unique and so independent that they coexist in complete ignorance of one another. The ludites would think of the technophiles as if there were just legends, and the technophiles would assume that the ludites became extinct a long time ago.
maybe, but probably not.
justinhabit 4 months ago
@justinhabit Ha, I didn't even think of that! I don't know about your ludities/technophiles theory (although perhaps there's some truth to that), but I think there's definitely truth to the idea that the kind of people who use online dating websites would be more into their technology - and thus using technology for something that used to be done completely in person, dating. Now I want to ask various people the "six things you can't live without" question IRL and see how they answer.
alyiswriting 4 months ago
I was born in 1986. I grew up with beepers still being popular. But I came to know cellphones to be useful for conducting business/work with associates. I still believe that, but text my girlfriend often. My worry is that technology has forced us to accept new ways of life: We will be more busy now, because we can spend less time in person with each other. I think technology has forced us into isolation more, yet it allows us to give a platonic projection of self.
darkgreenranger 4 months ago
@darkgreenranger I agree - I think people feel they know others better from what they can easily read on a facebook profile or twitter, but that's different from actually knowing a person, and we're spending less time with others in person.
alyiswriting 4 months ago
i love that kaleidoscope is one of your favorite words; my grandparents actually sell kaleidoscopes, and i have a growing collection of my own. i think kale short for kaleidoscope would be awesome!
erni414 4 months ago
@erni414 That is so awesome!! Do they make the kaleidoscopes? Do they have their own kaleidoscope shop? I'm so jealous of your grandparents now, I think my future aspiration has just become kaleidoscope storekeeper.
alyiswriting 4 months ago
@alyiswriting they don't make them, but they know most of the major kaleidoscope artists; they've been selling scopes for me than...25-30 years? I can't remember when they started- it started at their B&B, and now they just have the shop. The Brewster society is a big group of artists in the scope "revival" and they're members. the shop is the largest of any in the southeast, if not the country- they have more than 100 artists represented. kaleidoscopeshop com. it's basically amazing!
erni414 4 months ago
@erni414 Now I want to take a road trip to Atlanta solely to see this store. So cool. And there is a kaleidoscope convention in April!? And kaleidoscope-making classes with kaleidoscope artists? How did I never know any of these things existed?
alyiswriting 4 months ago
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erni414 4 months ago
I feel like it would be not impossible but certainly difficult to live without my mobile phone. I have access to the internet, I can connect to people in all kinds of ways, it helps me navigate, it can give me directions on where to buy what, or eat lunch or whatever, or if I just need to look up a word in the dictionary. Brilliant stuff.
Also, I was reminded about George from Seinfeld and his brilliant idea of a name for baby: Seven :)
kablamo9999 4 months ago
@kablamo9999 People talking about their smart phones always make them sound so awesome. I think that's why I keep refusing to get one, I don't want to feel dependent on it. But they do sound pretty awesome. Especially when I venture to Boston and get lost walking around and could really use some directions...
alyiswriting 4 months ago
I always thought it was odd that a lot of people said that they couldn't like without technology. I would really like to live off the grid for a while. It would seem like a relief.
And thank you so much for actually doing the survey! You're awesome! And I'm sorry your first kiss was awkward.
Hellybot 4 months ago
@Hellybot I think I'd also like to live off the grid for a while...but it's interesting that "living off the grid" is a decision that has to be made, a step that has to be taken, and, although perhaps it's for the better, it will disconnect a person from others in this day and age.
The survey was fun! I thought it was sweet that you tagged me! And I imagine any possible way that my first kiss could have occurred, I would describe it in hindsight as "awkward."
alyiswriting 4 months ago
Also, the names Charlotte and William are both favourites of mine. There are whole lists in one of my notebooks.
DreamerRealist 4 months ago
I'm the same way. I resisted Facebook for the longest time, then finally caved last year around March. My mom made me get a cellphone when I started driving. Texting annoys that crap out of me. But it's still useful.
One time I got lost in my town trying to find a Wiggles and Giggles, and had to pull over and ask a woman gardening for directions. She was a nice lady.
My first kiss was beside a red racecar bed. With about seven other people in the room. Taking that back would be nice...
DreamerRealist 4 months ago
@DreamerRealist Racecar bed!! I've never actually seen a racecar bed in real life, but I used to have this fantasy of my future life and I would have twin boys with racecar beds and I would write middle grade novels while sitting on their beds while they were at school. I love the name Charlotte! I forgot about that one. But I've known way too many Billy's, Will's, and William's in my life, haha.
alyiswriting 4 months ago
@alyiswriting I don't know if I'll ever be able to get passed that memory. It's the one and only time I've ever seen a racecar bed in reality. I just think about William Turner and all of the other Williams kind of fade into the background.
DreamerRealist 4 months ago
@DreamerRealist Hahaha! So what was the story behind the racecar bed? Was it the boy's who you were kissing?
alyiswriting 4 months ago
@alyiswriting Yup. It was after my school's Cabaret at the end of November my grade nine year. I was in swing dance, and we all when to Chris's house for our own little swing dance after party. Note that he wasn't even in swing dance. He was just friends with people who were. So, anyway, most of us were able to go, and we just ended up eating and hanging out and playing videos games (or in my case, watching other people play video games) in his room, which had a racecar bed. And then he ended up
DreamerRealist 4 months ago
@DreamerRealist kissing me. It was slightly disappointing, because, as it turned out, I didn't actually like him, and we ended up dating for three months anyway, which was weird. But yes, that is how my first kiss happened on the floor against a racecar bed. With seven other people watching.
DreamerRealist 4 months ago
I couldn't stop looking at that Pikachu throughout the video D: I want it
Youngdumb11 4 months ago
@Youngdumb11 I bought it in Chinatown in Philadelphia. They had even bigger ones too!
alyiswriting 4 months ago
I don't have a cellphone. My friends nag me.
Also your first kiss doesn't sound like a kiss at all. 0_0
Unless I'm just misinformed about kissing.
NAMES! Pretty much some of the coolest names no one can name their child because of bad conotations. For instance, I happen to think Lucifer is a sweet name. But it's also Satan's name... so my family would disown me. Similar cool/taboo names are Cain, Judas, Saul, Absolom and Jezebel.
Also names from the Final Fantasy series are good, like Aeris.
ShortenDavid 4 months ago
@ShortenDavid Haha, oh no it was kissing, just very sloppy, gross, lick-y kissing...so I paraphrased in my description. Aeris is a neat name. I always find interesting names I like in movies and games and books, then I wonder if I could really pull off having a kid with that name...
alyiswriting 4 months ago