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The future of cards, family pictures and cell phones!

10 years ago

This was a share card on my FB page this could be my family lol.

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dedtired
10 years ago
OMG, this is hilarious. Very creative and so typical of today.
cyn427 (z. 7, N. VA)
10 years ago
Hahaha! That is so funny. I love it.
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Thank you for all the kind words. I agree that my job first and foremost is to be a parent and teach my children values and that you earn what you have. We do have gaming systems, a couple in fact, along with computers (2) and games for them. But homework and chores are done first, then 30 minutes of time ONLY on one of the games. Time for research on the computer is given, but if you've asked for research or homework time on the computer, I'd better not catch you doing anything else. Though my older kids I did let them IM while doing homework, but by that time the sense that homework or research must be the focus was ingrained. I let my older children, including my daughter, have the buy your minutes cell for the same reason as Linda. My children walked to school, and Tiffy still does, until they could buy their first car. It's a safety precaution. It also allows her to remind me when she's going to be late for one reason or another. But I can't see the reason for a child who does not walk to school to have, at a very young age, a cell phone that they take to school. My 11 yr old knows that despite what his friends have or don't, their parents don't make the rules for our house. I don't let them roam the neighborhood either. They may walk to the park a half block from my house with a friend or sibling, but if I've given permission to go somewhere, that's where they'd better be. I do have fun with and enjoy my children. I don't want to give the wrong message here. But I am their parent first and foremost and a friend secondly. Oddly enough, my older children will discuss anything in their lives with me, including some things that I'd really rather not be privy too in the case of my grown sons. I have a very good relationship with all my children. But they know that I am their parent above all. It's my job to keep them safe and teach them what life is about and I only have about 18-19 years to teach them the things that will shape their lives for, God willing, another 70 -80 years after they are grown. I'm not knocking parents who do allow their young children to have a phone, to each their own and I'm sure you have your reasons. Also not trying to make myself sound like an ogress or "super mom", I'm neither, and just expressing my views on parenting. My children have been my greatest joys, my sanity and insanity and my lifeline through some of the worst times of my life. They, along with my precious husband :), are the focus of everything I do, no matter what it is. Kathy
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pkponder I am with you 100% and the worst is when they are saying hello and of course you think they are speaking to you and you start to reply and then they say wait someone in the next stall thinks I am talking to them. Just who do you call while sitting on the john?? I mean do you want to be the person on the other end of that call? NOT ME. ewewww. Try being in a wheelchair or electric card and getting by those same people that are blocking the aisle. And if you accidentally touch them they look at you like they will sue you. Well get the heck out of everyones way. and don't get me started on the bluethooth people that appear to be just talking to no one and you wonder are they talking to you? or are they just freaks? And unfortunately my husband now uses his bluetooth at work, I do not allow him to use it when he is with me or in public! Mine has never been out of it's box. I do not use my phone while driving and rarely in stores and NEVER in a bathroom. I guess I just do not need to speak to anyone that badly unless it is emergency related. and for that I have onstar.
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You want spoiled....read this. Our department provides laptops for our students to borrow for a week at a time. They come with a wireless mouse and a flashdrive. I have a student who borrowed the laptop and left the flashdrive in the library. The library called to let me know and I retrieved it. She came in and didn't apologize for losing it. Well, I let her borrow the laptop for another week and she again left the flashdrive in our computer lab. But this time some one walked off with it. She called and told me the day before the laptop was due back. I told her she would have to pay for the flashdrive and replace it. After being quite snotty (again with no apologies) she replaced the flashdrive. I then told her that her privilages were suspended for a month and she again got snotty. My boss finally told her that borrowing a laptop was a PRIVILAGE and not a RIGHT! My point is that she didn't care that she lost the flashdrive twice and she feels she is entitled to borrow the laptop. SamKaren your resident DJ
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I guess it all depends on how much you call from home versus away from home or on the road. We use pre-paid cellular. The new phones were free after rebate and my wife and I each spend about $5-$7/month for the STI Mobile/Sprint service. We only make quick 1-2 minute calls for necessary reasons and it works fine anywhere in the country that Sprint covers. Voice mail and text messaging are turned off on both cellular phones. Other cellular providers are now joining the pre-paid game with good deals. We are still stuck with the old telephone company for home and home office lines. I must have the reliability and quality of a landline for my business. I do pay too much for long distance, toll-free, and local service for my business compared to the low rates available today. Bills are typically $35-$50/month for relatively low volume usage. The last time I switched was from MCI to Ameritech(i.e. SBC/AT&T/who knows?) It was a pain to switch, but the new lower rates were good for a year before they went up again. Our home phone line just went up to $22/month for local phone service. It started at $18 several years ago. Pre-paid long distance service is $.025/minute using cards from companies like Cheap Phonecards. The latest cards don't require you to enter the pin every time from home and you can program the 800 access number into speed dial. The long distance cards are great from hotels too. We are seriously considering the switch to broadband phone service, but our local numbers are not yet portable for Vonage or the others. We are just outside of their large markets. Broadband cable internet is $30/month and speed is around 300K or 10 times faster than dial-up. It is fast enough for our needs. The total bill (excluding my business) is around $67/month for all phones and broadband for my wife and I. Here is a link that might be useful: Cheap Phone Cards
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Sueb20
10 years ago
Hilarious. Wish I'd thought of that.
gsciencechick
10 years ago
Awesome, LOL.
graywings123
10 years ago
So funny, so true!
Elraes Miller
10 years ago
If only....I had my GD for 3 days without an Ipad working. She was moving physically every which way and had absolutely no focus. It was exhausting just watching her. We had plenty of fun things planned inside and out (my take), but nothing lasted longer than 5 minutes. And conversation was a loss with more head nods than speech. Please tell me this really isn't their 24/7 life. I can see them texting responses to a future employer during a one on one interview for interaction.
lynninnewmexico
10 years ago
LOL!
3katz4me
10 years ago
That is hilarious and so true.
gsciencechick
10 years ago
Tech, it IS their 24/7 life. As soon as our undergrads get out of class, they are all going down the hall checking their phones that they almost bump into you!

I use a polling software called PollEverywhere in class, so at least they get to touch their phones. Ooh.
jterrilynn
Original Author
10 years ago
I was just imagining a five years old birthday celebration picture with a poor ignored clown entertaining in the background and a table of twelve five year olds all looking down playing games or texting.

Or a family dinner at a popular restaurant where everyone is texting their order into the main kitchen computer! No more servers taking your order, they just drop the food off, every table has a code number.

Same thing at drive through, you just text in your order and then push a button at a certain point in line for order process and never speak to a person.

Wonder what the world will look like twenty years from now. Between self-check-outs, online shopping and all the texting I wonder what the future of human interaction will be like.
Olychick
10 years ago
I went to a friend's house for NYeve. She and her husband invited her sis and bil and me over for snacks and a game/puzzle afternoon/eve. Very low key. But the bil was on his ipad the WHOLE time we were there. He'd put it down and within 30 seconds he'd be looking at it again. Then his wife got hers out and spent 2 hours showing or trying to show us funny things from the internet (as well as some good photos of her garden and grandkids). Then my friend's husband got his ipad out and so 3 of the 5 of us were on a device! I almost left, but it would have embarrassed my hostess friend, so she and I just gave each other looks and kept chatting. Finally we decided to play a card game and the bil joined us, but kind of because he was sitting at the end of the table, not because he really wanted to, I think.

Then, as we were in the middle of the game, my friend's husband announced that her sister was hungry! They'd just spent 2 hours on their devices and the minute we did something without them, she wanted fed. My friend told her to look around and help herself and we continued our card game.

It wasn't the game/puzzle event I imagined and these are all people in their late 50's. Addicts every one - it's not just the youth.

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