all i do my phone is make phone calls, and watch netflix, etc.
computer stuff for computer. typey type on full keyboard with 10 fingers.
i quit a volunteer group i used to hang out with because they insisted we all use slack on our phones so we could communicate 24/7. I was like ‘no i want to communicate in person only, or maybe occasionally by email. call me in emergecies’
got a lecture about how this made a boomer who was oppressing folks because using the phone/email is triggering for them and why not just have instant communication and expect instant responses and be perpetually anxious/enraged about the slack channel 24/7… because that’s like a better way to communicate about a group that meets like 6 times a month? OK zoomers.
had a few people complain to me later how much they hated having to be on the slack 24/7 and i was like ‘yeah that’s why i quit, it’s horrible to try and force people to use technology that does nothing to improve communication nor is it necessary at all when it’s a analog activity.’
computer stuff for computer. typey type on full keyboard with 10 fingers
i ended up getting a portable keyboard for my phone i was writing so much in it. I insist all my keyboards have 10-keys because otherwise i have to hunt and peck for numbers and i have too much ego to do that. but it made writing more fun.
I mean, disable notifications, use like email?
Sure, Slack is not a standard and emil is a mess. But otherwise…
Why do you have to be perpetually engaged with a slack chat? Especially in a volunteer group?
You can just ignore notifications. You’re not required by law to look at them asap. Slack in particular is great for configuring that. On mobile I have it set so only @here/@channel/@mes notify me, or direct messages. Otherwise I just ignore it until I want to check on things. Slack also has a built in automatic dnd so outside of business hours you won’t get notified for anything.
because if you’re like 25 that’s how you live your entire life and you can’t accept anyone else could possibly live life another way.
and if you point out that you don’t have to live your life that way, you are hateful and ignorant and -ist something or other, e.i. they just call you names.
basically folks have no emotional control and just project their crazy onto the rest of us, rather than… just not being addicted to their phones for everything.
another good example. i will leave my phone at home and go out for hours without it. i have been told by various folks that this is abusive and cruel, or otherwise totally unacceptable and wrong to do, because what if someone (themselves) has to reach me? also that like, not replying to texts/messages in a certain timeframe, is abusive, manipulative, negligent etc.
occasionally i also leave my phone accidental at home and like go to work and don’t touch it for 10 hours. weird how the world doesn’t implode or end when I do that. i might have a few missed calls or texts.
also that like, not replying to texts/messages in a certain timeframe
I think one or two days at most can be expect at business days.
As usual, young people are idiots 😅 I do the same and go phone free most weekends. (Or check it like 2 times i n case someone needs me) We dont need to be addicted to our phones. These kids cannot survive 5 minutes without it and it broke their brains.
Tech is fine. Addiction is not. This coming from someone with 20+ game systems and 200 steam games lol. And like 6 PCs. Tech and learning is great. Social media billionaire funded brainrot, needs to die.
Even if you guys are right, and im inclined to agree with you, you both sound like smug assholes. Tone down the hate on young people, you were young once too and im sure you were morons just like the rest of us.
yeah i know. god forbid i like just do what i want to do and don’t consider the feelings of someone who is 25 who is projecting all their anxiety and bad choices onto the rest of us and trying to normalize their hebaviours, rather than changing their own.
when I was 25 i had better to to do than lecture other people on the internet, or in real life. like hang out with my friends, my girlfriend, and working my ass off to improve my future. but i understand that for a lot of young people today, none of those are viable options in their mind, and the only option is to be insufferable and miserable towards other folks and call them names.
because god forbid you invest in yourself when you can just tear everyone else around you down to your level of misery.
and before you go ‘but they have it so hard’ no, the 25 year olds i’m talking about in my example make more money than I do, and yet they complain how broke they are non-stop. they also don’t have student debt because they had rich parents and often they are have property their parents bought for them. and if you point that out they tell you how growing up with rich parents is a disadvantage in life and how much better poor people have it than they do. it’s utterly insane.
you know also what makes someone a smug asshole? budgeting, eating right, exercising, and all the stuff we all know that are good for us. and the people who tend to hate you for doing that are the people who are broke, eat shitty food, and are lazy and refuse to take care of their health.
You missed their point and doubled down on acting like an asshole.
