 Oh boy, I'm probably going to rub some people the wrong way today, but just because you can use an app doesn't mean you have to Hey there in JVu22.com here with a little bit of against and against the grain vlog today And this is about apps primarily smartphone apps or tablet apps and I really think you'd be hard to find anybody Under 65 that's completely disconnected from the the technology world and I'm really fascinated with with with the advent of the smartphone in the last a couple decades and how Everybody has has incorporated it into some people are extreme. They do everything on their smartphone. They have their shopping list. They have their their Social media contacts and they're constantly taking pictures of themselves. They've become this like kind of like a lemming They're just they're just running in like what do you call a lab in a wheel or a rat in a wheel And they don't even understand how how deep they are in it, but just for the sake of this argument here I'm going to break the apps down into Just some general groups here and I think one of the first and foremost things that are Problematic in our eyes are the the social media apps and how Everybody's now taking pictures of themselves constantly and one upping their neighbors and they can't even experiencing Experience anything anymore even something as simple as a meal with their family at a restaurant They've never been to without Documenting it and I believe that's really changed the the whole meant mentality of just living And I think those people can really that we lived without it for a long time people didn't bring Polaroid Instamatics and envelopes and and postage stamps to write all their friends a postcard every time they went out to eat That's the equivalent of doing it now except it has that stupid easy button and they can do it in a few seconds with no effort Or thought they just do it I Think that is just taking away from the actual experience of living and feeling and seeing and breathing What's happening when your mind is thinking about Doing it to send a message to somebody to you get somebody to think about you or to Nvu or whatever it may be Or just to you know so you can be a superstar in your circle of friends in terms of the number of updates you have and everybody'll think you're You're up to all these things and you're just an ordinary person like everybody else and most people I watch people When I'm waiting online some I watch some people who are sitting around use their their phone And they spend like a second looking at that that little post you made and they double tap it and they move on they Literally it doesn't even get committed to memory unless they see it on their phone yet, but another group of apps That I think are just general commerce apps You know from buying everything you need you're in your Amazon app people bring their phones to the store And they they'll go to Walmart and scan the barcode and they'll see that thing here for a dollar cheaper at Amazon They buy it on Amazon. They don't or whatever it may be and then there's selling things which is which is You know, I can't disagree with eBay or any of those other apps. They have to sell things, but you don't necessarily have to be On your phone to do that and then there's of course finance apps and and trading trading Applications like I know Robin Hood is one of them, but and then there's the Health apps, I guess Google Fit and Apple whatever the whatever that version is called. I don't have an Apple, but they People are now obsessively tracking their steps They have fitness watches or the phone itself can track your steps and and a lot of other things too and they're constantly checking They're the progress and I guess in some instances it may help motivate you to walk and a few more steps And which is a good thing. I'm not going to argue that it's not a good thing, but I'm wondering how people You know got in shape. They were you know, there's more obese people today with all this technology at their fingertips Then there were before these apps came around And I'm wondering for anybody who says they can they oh, I like counting my steps. It reminds me I have to take a hundred more steps to break that Arbitrary level the round number of a thousand steps or whatever it may be or 10 miles or whatever they're doing to stay active What would happen if their phone went away or that the functionality cease to exist? Would they completely turn into a 900 pound land monster? I don't know I mean whatever happened to self motivation and if you're relying on that crutch to motivate you I mean you should be able to listen to your body. No that. Hey, you know what? I didn't really do much there Let me go walk around the block a few times like when you rely on the computer or the app or the technology or the Robot to motivate you that becomes a little bit Concerning no and then of course there's entertainment. I guess you know social media can be considered Entertainment in its own right. I don't know if you anybody has seen tick-tock. It's just not I look at it Because I want to know what people are doing. I don't look at it. Let's say Rarely let's say once a month. I'll say alright Let me let me see what's going on here And it's just people doing things on a video for a minute And then they you go to the next one and some things are neat You know people are dancing jumping and there's funny things, but it's it's I guess it's modern entertainment Instead of sitting in front of your TV for half an hour You're looking at tick-tock and all these random people and then you go on I don't know I don't and same thing with them I guess a lot of people play games on their phone I mean games been around for a long time I can't really get rid of them and then there's people that watch movies on their phone Which I think is utterly ridiculous To when you have a 65 inch screen at home, but I don't think anybody should be watching movies Anyway, it's just mindless entertainment and subtle psychological programming, but What I want to ask is like I don't think there's anybody who's under 35 or 40 years old who? Truly understands what it was like to be an adult before this technology came around and what you did with your mind and your time and so on The older people will understand and some of them do like myself Struggle to see the worth in this new technology I'm not being a Luddite per se because I do use this stuff. I just I try to be very in control of how they Take our time up and there's other people that might say that sure I can do a lot more things now and You're doing a whole lot of a little you know you're doing it, you know faster for instance and That alone is worth thinking about do I need to be doing a hundred different things a day? And juggling all this stuff. It how does that affect your brain long term? Especially when it comes to deep thought Contemplation just truly understanding the relationships between things when you only have a few seconds doing all these things What happens to your brain and and your capability to think? Deeper thoughts and and just or be more calm in your wit in the way you react to things I don't know. I'm really concerned about how it might affect The future the future generations, you know, I have to say some people will say that this is just part of human evolution and these the new Let's say 40 or 60 or 80 years from that people are going to be able to do a million things at once like virtual computers and That may very well come at a cost of you know lack of empathy or emotion or the ability to actually care about another human being because you're so Connected to these tasks these digital tasks that you're doing and tapping and typing and filming I don't know. I mean, you know people will become very impersonal. It's quite possible, but I'm offering you a challenge Besides any work requirements that you might use with your phone Can you give up all your apps even the ones that you say are so great such as your step meter and your fitness tracking and all that? Maybe you've become spoiled by your by your new technology You know you could say though. Well the people from the 1700s would say well, can you live without electricity or running water? I think that's a little bit of a different scenario. It's not apples to apples these these Technology advancements are very minor in and what they're replacing electricity and running water are like epic in comparison But you know if you tell me what app you think you need and can't live with that I'd love to hear about it, and I'm sure maybe you might be right. Maybe it's a wonderful thing Like I like my banking app because I can deposit a check and not have to go to the bank But you know what's to be said about going to the bank you could do a couple other errands at the same time You could talk to a teller and a person and have human contact. I don't know I mean there's you can look both ways, but please hit the like and subscribe and I'll see you next video Thanks for watching