Technology and Society/YouTube Survey

Sorry this is so long, but it's a two part video! Youtube survey starts at 2:23.

Hellybot is adorable: youtube.com/hellybot

The quote I mentioned: http://curiositycounts.com/post/11789336777/the-decision-of-whether-to-opt-in...

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[justinhabit]

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.



[alyiswriting]

@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.

[darkgreenranger]

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.

[alyiswriting]

@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.

[thepeteris]

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.

[BlakesNo1]

ah, I love the name Kale! you should use that name :)

[alyiswriting]

@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?

[justinhabit]

@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.

[DreamerRealist]

@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]

@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