Selfies & Social Media Can Get You Fired

[Guest]

 

I dunno, ncn, that's  a little too high tech for me.  I still haven't mastered the clay tablet and stylus yet.

Selfies are just a fashion of the narcissistic generation that we have today. FB is appalling anyway, it's all me, me, me.

 

By the way Shiloh, my phone goes back to 2005 (I think) so I believe I've beaten you on that one. It only makes and receives phone calls and sends and receives text messages. The camera doesn't work and there is no internet or wi-fi access.

Don't get me wrong, I like technology but I have a particular distaste of mobile telephones. I think it's because I get annoyed by seeing people texting all the time and fed-up of hearing someone in the street who appears to be shouting to himself. Why people on phones shout, I've no idea. Maybe it's because they think that they have to shout because the person they are talking to is far, far away. Personally, I'm not interested in letting the general public hear my private conversations. I'm not important enough for my private life to be of any interest to them but everybody else thinks that their own lives are!

 

Rant over.

 

 

I agree with you.

 

It used to be that you saw a person shouting or talking to themselves that they were just . . . mentally disturbed, crazy, or what have you. Now you see the same thing and its just someone blathering on a phone. The yelling part I don't get either, but we call that "cell yell" over here in the US. I have no love for phones in general though that comes from doing 3 years of telephone tech support and customer service in various call centers. Nothing like 40 hours a week of people complaining on phones to make you hate phones in general for the rest of your life! I use a mobile because its cheaper and more convienient than a landline these days, and because I have to have a phone for work.

[Guest shiloh357]

I was at the grocery store once and saw this guy that was pushing a cart and appeared to be talking to himself.  As I was shopping, I kept seeing him one aisle after another and he would be just yapping away and loudly reading the prices off and in some cases he would be audibly reading the ingredient list on  this or that.   I am thinking, "this guy is really weird."   At one point, though I finally saw he was wearing a Blue Tooth earpiece that I had not noticed before.  Felt bad for judging him, LOL 

[OakWood]

I was at the grocery store once and saw this guy that was pushing a cart and appeared to be talking to himself.  As I was shopping, I kept seeing him one aisle after another and he would be just yapping away and loudly reading the prices off and in some cases he would be audibly reading the ingredient list on  this or that.   I am thinking, "this guy is really weird."   At one point, though I finally saw he was wearing a Blue Tooth earpiece that I had not noticed before.  Felt bad for judging him, LOL 

 

Yes, the earpieces make things worse. Before when I thought that I heard somebody talking to himself, I would finally realise that he wasn't when I spotted the phone in his hand but the earpieces are less easy to spot.

Maybe I should conduct a social experiment. I'm tempted to walk down the street or maybe in another public place such as a mall or a supermarket and start talking loudly to myself. If anybody approaches me, I'll make them notice the set of earphones that I'm wearing. Of course they won't be plugged in or anything, but nobody will know that. I think I could probably get away with this for hours!