I Find This Picture Kinda Sad. Hint: The Crowd

[Ruma85]

People at live events, taking pictures and recording what is going on and themselves throughout the entire time they are there with their crappy camera angles and their lighting deserve nothing but misery.

I've paid a lot of money for courtside seats, ring side seats, front row seats at concerts, matches and games to see legendary athletes and artists, and people will be on their phone, watching the event from their freaking phone. Recording and taking pictures constantly.

Why the hell would you pay hundreds to thousands of dollars to be close enough to touch your favorite athlete or artist. To be close enough that you can talk to them. Only to see them through a freaking 8 inch screen. To record something that is going to be on freaking YouTube with superior camera angles anyway.

I legitimately hate people like that do that. And it's all ages too. It's not even a generational thing. It's everyone.

The smartphone is the worst invention in the history of mind next to the internet and the atomic bomb.

Though I agree with you, that last sentence was a bit much.

[fendilim]

They need proof they were in the game

[Raps in 4]

I never understood why people film any events on their phones. This is a moment that's being filmed professionally. It'll be available online, in actually watchable quality. Why the **** would you or anyone else ever watch the footage from your phone?

[threethehardway]

Though I agree with you, that last sentence was a bit much.

I really can't think of an overall greater good that came way via the internet or a smartphone unless people like technology for technology sake.

The internet, mobile device and information technology in general just enslaved everyone to a network where people give up their right to privacy, time and attention to something that isn't even real or provide real value. Everyone does it and is compelled to do it, even if they don't like it.

And it's not a localize thing to particular countries, or even a thing that pertains to certain stages and phases of human life. It's something that is pervasive and insidious and is only gonna get worse because it's the greatest mechanism of human control ever invented that people willing sign up for every time they log on to a computer, unlock their phone, pay their bills, send an email, download the latest mobile app.

And on top that, not only is everyone's life on the internet, all of the critical infrastructure that we all depend on to work like our water, electricity is on the internet. How convenient is that? Passwords get breached everyday.

It's terrible and in 100 years the general consensus will be that the internet was a mistake. Not only is it an destroyer of identity, culture, connections, relationships, and civil liberties, it's an existential threat to human civilization.

[John Murdoch]

Though I agree with you, that last sentence was a bit much.

I really can't think of an overall greater good that came way via the internet or a smartphone unless people like technology for technology sake.

The internet, mobile device and information technology in general just enslaved everyone to a network where people give up their right to privacy, time and attention to something that isn't even real or provide real value. Everyone does it and is compelled to do it, even if they don't like it.

And it's not a localize thing to particular countries, or even a thing that pertains to certain stages and phases of human life. It's something that is pervasive and insidious and is only gonna get worse because it's the greatest mechanism of human control ever invented that people willing sign up for every time they log on to a computer, unlock their phone, pay their bills, send an email, download the latest mobile app.

And on top that, not only is everyone's life on the internet, all of the critical infrastructure that we all depend on to work like our water, electricity is on the internet. How convenient is that? Passwords get breached everyday.

It's terrible and in 100 years the general consensus will be that the internet was a mistake. Not only is it an destroyer of identity, culture, connections, relationships, and civil liberties, it's an existential threat to human civilization.

Agree somewhat but you sound like the UnaBomber

[jokeboy86]

I think it shows not only how cynical we have become but how the yearning for nostalgia will only increase. Its not enough to say you were at a concert, sporting event, had an interaction with a celebrity or a visiting tourist somewhere because people have become so cynical that they think you’re lying unless you captured it or posted it to social media. We also dont trust our memories anymore to retain the most meaningful experiences even when were younger so we feel the need to capture every single thing we observe in our life. Every. Single. Thing. Clout chasing or thirsting for likes has become an epidemic now.

[Ado05]

I think people that complain about other people being on their phones are losers.

[Statlanta]

Absolutely wild to me what this era has come to now. People with their phones out like drones. Feels very dystopian, like Black Mirror. And it’s not like people will ever even go back to videos time and time again. They will just post it on their Instagrams just saying “oh hey, I was there!”

Compare that to the difference with this:



I guess that’s just me though.

The iPhone didn't exist in that bottom picture.

[Richard Miller]

Why the hell would you pay hundreds to thousands of dollars to be close enough to touch your favorite athlete or artist? To be close enough that you can talk to them but only to see them through a freaking 7 inch screen. It is going to be on freaking YouTube with superior camera angles anyway.

Because they came so they can say "I was there" and those crappy pictures are the proof, they can show to their mates "look I was there". Not to mention that otherwise few would care about a mid-season game between the two bottom 5 teams.

[foreigngrammar]

Absolutely wild to me what this era has come to now. People with their phones out like drones. Feels very dystopian, like Black Mirror. And it’s not like people will ever even go back to videos time and time again. They will just post it on their Instagrams just saying “oh hey, I was there!”

Compare that to the difference with this:



I guess that’s just me though.

People are simply pathetic. I don't know what to say about this.... just like in concerts or anywhere now. People forgot how to use their brains and record something that is recorded anyways just in much better quality.
Yeah but tik and insta tok, I get it