Difficulties living in the digital age

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Just wondering if anyone else feels like me, Im from the united kingdom and live life mainly on my own now day's because Ive started feeling out of place from the modern world. The people and world in general seems to be getting more and more insane to me.

I dont drive and feel that all I ever see is the human race being transported by antisocial cubes. The communication age has literally killed off the old fashioned ways of communication like saying hello to strangers.

Its has if you have to be in the NT alpha tribe to make new friends. And all the time I see women acting fake just to fit in eg fake laughing at men behaving like children. Morals have also gone and so has expression. I feel like im living in a synthetic life where everythings artifical. It feels like im living in such a shallow world, and im just surrounded by as ant nest stuctured enviroment.

People also seem to be affraid of culture in my area and I set up a moden art group, to date no one has shown any intrest at all. So obviously creative thinking is dead in england.

How do u lot feel living in the digital age.
Has the media corrupted civil living
I just feel like the song MAD WORLD is so true

I, too, have problems with the modern age, although I like it's conveniences, such as the internet. But I have also tried to think more positively lately.

*Stifles the vicious rant lurking within him*

Cell phones, whale tails, and text speak, oh my...

How ironic that the so called 'communication age' is really just rendering it impersonal and distant...

Hmmn I don't know, without the net I wouldn't be able to speak to any of you, I wouldn't have resolved my problems so quickly...

Without this computer pretty much all the things I enjoy vanish...

Though you're right aspects of it are becoming more impersonal, but the flipside of the equation is that we can unite people all around the world, which has to be a wonderful thing..

I mean in the past not one of us could have known about people facing similar problems, in the past not one of us would have been able to communicate in the way we can best...

In other words, lets make our present the best it can be.

Amen.

Quite frankly, my computer is all I need. I can do without everything else that's High-Tech.

I don't think I could mentally survive in a non-digital age

Hmmn what do I need and/or love about technology?

light
shelter
computer
microwave
oven
packaged meals
condoms
mobile phones
the ever shrinking size of technology
cars


I think you'll find everything we do connects to it or relies on it somehow.

A dino of sixty here. Pre digital was no winner. I stay at home and make my living digitally, never knew who I was till I landed on WP. Read lots of books, now I work the web.

As for those people things, I love them here and hate them in person, but I have never met a WPeer.

As for the decline of culture, society, the only thing good about the good old days is they are over.

The past is gone, the present used, so only the future holds promise.

Do yyou mean 1920 "Modern Art", or current art?

I don't know. I think that a lot was lost through the disconnect of communities. Who knows if that is part of why we are what we are. Even by the 40's, in America, there were clear signs of the disolution. I don't think that the digital age is particularly healthful.

The technology of today affords many conveniences, but it is true that the world around me has a feel of plastic artificiality. People walk down the street with a cell phone glued to their ear. They drive while talking on a phone, too, and cause accidents. Or they are playing video games or text messaging. If you stand and admire a lovely, cloudless sky, or stop to enjoy the beauty of a fountain in a downtown square, you are seen as weird. But to need the constant companionship of telephone conversation while shopping, bike riding, walking and driving, is seen as normal.

Oh no another whinging pom....

Here in Australia (at least it used to be) ... people talk to strangers,, the concept of 'Stranger Danger' wasn't taught to children....now everyone is dangerous so what do you expect? -it's not the technology (unless you include the TV) -it's people listening to the common HYPE... that has created this world...if everyone were that much less attentive to thier Television... we may just walk outside and find something else to do.

Next time your at the supermarket - talk to the check out chick.

Stand out the Front of Your House/Unit/Blocks ... great everyone that walks by...

....and just overly - don't think negatively about everything,,, the TV utilises your emothions, especially negative ones, to sway your mind to and throw to it's likeing - in effect making it more powerfull than the elected government.... policy is driven by the polycracy - one of these entities is the Moving Picture Box.

I used to love just sitting on my porch watching people. Sometimes they would initiate conversation. It was nice. Now, so many go by, but they're always chatting away on their damned phones. You can't even stop them to ask the time of day.

It seems royally rude to interupt someone whilst they are working. Ah, a couple of words here and there, but I would never try to enter into a conversation with a cashier (or a waiter/waitress) - if they initiate it, that's fine, but otherwise I'd just be taking advantage of a captive audience, and I know how much I hate when that is forced on me.

I am only 22 years old but I still think you are right. The past is over and let us try to look at the future as a good promise. The only thing that I think is sad is that the music isn't as good as it was in the 80's or 60's!

This is going to make you even more of an outcast but....

when they are talking on their phones (or just about to) it's simple,, just say: 'How Rude' --> and to make it feel a little more comfy, say it like that little blonde girl in that US family show that was shot in a San Fran home.

-The ones walking on the street.... put your elbows on the fence and stand! -as they walk past, put your hand down infront of them, when they look at you for making the obstruction - wave and smile --guranteed they will remmeber you for at least half the day. -oh and it can be fun too -why do you think kds throw rocks at cars, and lately the rocks have been getting bigger, and life threatening? (The world speaks to the individual, just as the individual can speak to the world)

I have a mate... you know what he does all day?

He walks around the area he lives, and pionts out everything wrong with an individual - now he doesn't out right say - oh you have an ugly face,,(Actualy come to think of it, he has said that one) , he tries to come up with interesting comedic pionts about an individual,,, slowly he will end up talking to the individual for upto an hour, just standing thier on the street. -he spends his whole day extroverted, and is spreading more good locally than the laboratory technician is trying to do gene sequencing (you can't be a scientist in a dismal world, especially if you feel dismal yourself)

---You see why the world has it's problems --we are all addicted.

It might make me an outcast. Worse, it would make me feel like a jerk (other, more graphic choice deleted). I really can't stand seeing people act like this. Nor can an introvert like myself make that jump. There are extroverts who can do this (the said jerks), and good for them, but it's just more than someone who can barely bring themself to talk to strangers who approach me can do.