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Perhaps, although the connection you appear to suggest between smartphones and segregation isn’t fully clear to me.

On the other hand, you could be suggesting I’m racist because I believe the quality of societal discourse has degenerated. If that’s your intent, I suggest that your post demonstrates my point rather better than it does your own.

10-11-2017 , 12:14 PM

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Last sentence? It was a one sentence post!

Howard confirmed senile.

Touche, although I have a hard time believing you think that sentence is linguistically defensible.

I of course liked Neil’s post on the merits — just not on the precision of its style.

10-11-2017 , 12:22 PM

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Howard,

Touché

10-11-2017 , 12:23 PM

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Howard,

I don't think YouTube commenters would have been masterful scribes or orators in pre-smartphone eras.

I’m sure you are right, and YouTube certainly is a vehicle by which some of these folks have massively improved their oratory. The vast majority of them are a rhetorical horror show, however.

10-11-2017 , 12:23 PM

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Alobar

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I think people are definitely worse at writing, altho I doubt it has anything to do with smartphones and is more due to just lowered teaching standards in schools

10-11-2017 , 12:24 PM

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Although the research concerning the potential cognitive impacts of smartphone technology is growing, the results remain contradictory and inconclusive.

10-11-2017 , 12:27 PM

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Howard,

Touché

Yes, obviously. Being an old, I don’t know how to get my phone to write an accent aigu.

Slightly funny, but not your best.

10-11-2017 , 12:29 PM

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I think our ability to multitask is improving though, and by think I mean I'm pretty sure I read that somewhere.

10-11-2017 , 12:33 PM

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Although the research concerning the potential cognitive impacts of smartphone technology is growing, the results remain contradictory and inconclusive.

Just so. I thought the WSJ article was more anecdotal than analytical, and I fully recognize that it feeds into my own biases.

Interestingly, Family Treesong got involved in a heavy-duty conversation about feminism late last night that absolutely blew up into tears and slammed doors. A little cell phone distraction in the middle of it might have been helpful. I will say that my daughters are fine orators when they concentrate on it, and can definitely hold their own.

10-11-2017 , 12:33 PM

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I think the increased amount of visible writing is just exposing the level of writing that was always there, from people who before would never have their written words visible to anyone.

This seems obv to me.

All the middle agers that write terribly on Facebook have not had their writing skills significantly diminish.

10-11-2017 , 12:34 PM

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my communication was semi-stunted from 95% of "conversations" taking place on the internet growing up. on the other hand, it kept me from full isolation; and i've adapted since and made up for some/most deficits. who knows. technology is great tho.

10-11-2017 , 12:37 PM

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I'm sure when TV first came out people complained that it was making us all dumber, but Everybody Loves Raymond proved them wrong.

10-11-2017 , 12:51 PM

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I'm sure when TV first came out people complained that it was making us all dumber, but Everybody Loves Raymond proved them wrong.

I don't know if watching a lot of TV makes people dumber, but it makes people less interesting. And people who are attached to smart phones are the same.

10-11-2017 , 01:09 PM

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Writing on the internet propelled me forwards with writing in general. I don't have this "OMG OMG OMG how should I start this report" any more in my job. I don't have to dig so much through examples and templates. I learned to put this question in front "What do I actually want to communicate?". Writing got for me a lot easier due to the internet.

What about when you're invited to someone's house?

10-11-2017 , 01:24 PM

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What about when you're invited to someone's house?

In fairness to the modern world, that’s the sort of cross-contextual witticism that would have been impossible to make in a prior era.

10-11-2017 , 01:29 PM

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Just had a slut at eggslut...It was good but i'm'a go home and make some cheap sluts

10-11-2017 , 01:33 PM

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What about when you're invited to someone's house?

Then all my communicative problems arise again.

I think to much about what and how exactly I am gonna say. Especially in someone's house. It is not even shared territory like the internet. It is someone's else territory. And so I am usually rather keeping my mouth shut than say something wrong in such situations.

10-11-2017 , 01:55 PM

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I am almost the exact opposite. I have almost no filter between brain and lip. It leads to very interesting conversations and occasional wild embarrassment.

10-11-2017 , 02:43 PM

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What's with all this engraving on tablets nonsense? Back in my day people had memories. Now console me - things are different than they used to be and that makes me feel scared and irrelevant!

10-11-2017 , 02:47 PM

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Moving pictures you say?! There go our kids' imaginations! How are we going to colonize the savages if our sons are busy tiddling their winks in front of the tube? Get on the trolley!

10-11-2017 , 02:56 PM

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Can someone fire one of the conspi******s into an orbit around the earth? I think the Las Vegas videos are a bit much.

10-11-2017 , 03:08 PM

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I thought only spheres had orbits

10-11-2017 , 04:08 PM

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I thought only spheres had orbits

Idk, Howard? I seem to recall that you were a sphere once.

10-11-2017 , 04:24 PM

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That’s correct, I was hallucinating with a high fever in a hotel in Connecticut. I’ve never taken acid, but that was like what I always imagined a bad trip to be — a thought loop that I couldn’t escape.