[crystallizedtear]

I would be a hypocrite if I said I hate technology, because I don't...I love it...
but all this time the realization of the effects in has on our entire lives is pretty staggering...

sometimes I wonder if I could spend a day outside in the park doing my homework, or reading a book... or just taking a calm walk...( i do do that sometimes... but been locked in my room by parents for march break ><)...
and how without so much information overload our lives would be more prioritized and simple. maybe we would be more appreciative of nature and of our surroundings instead of burying ourselves in the lastest news, research, info, thread on Soompi etc etc...

well the information of the internet and tv..etc...media...has some good advantages... we are more knowledgeable..and now we can look up stuff on google and learn whenever we want about new things.
i love that! <3
but still...it's sooo much info...and not all of it's good.
plus there's just so many dang distractions..tv, internet, etc.... and our minds get muddled

how do you guys simplify your info? or more specifically...organize it?
i find that i have 23537574563565 bookmarks.
O___O how do i sort them all ...O___O
or should i delete them all and just save the most common sites i go to.
Lol...

anyway, generally, how do you guys simplify your lives?

[CriticalHit]

Well these days, you really can't go anywhere without technology. Unless you're one of those awesome people that leave cities and pollution behind and build huts in the middle of the wilderness.

Well... to "simplify" my life, I resist the urge to turn on my computer, sit in the living room next to my birds and read a book. If I find a really good book, not turning on the TV/computer is pretty easy. Hanging out with friends at the park is pretty fun too, especially at a playground. But hanging out in aplayground with abunch of teenagers is not a goodidea because people think you're gangsters ... yeah. Having a pet is good too, they distract you.

[katteriinka]

You can't help it. We live in the age of technology.


But it does suck though where it can damage health. For example, instead of walking around the mall going shopping, we sit on our butts and shop on ebay.

There are other things too. I just forgot what to say.

[DOVAHKIIN]

Technology is gonna end up owning us like in I, Robot.

Then Will Smith will save the day when he's not trying to pursue happiness.

[BishieAddict]

Simplify it? i don't think there's a need..... I love technology... It makes life a lot easier. From the fire to the wheel .. to the net, it's all good. Althought it does come at a cost: the increase invasion of privacy and perhaps the damages to the environment.

[Velocitii]

Technology is gonna end up owning us like in I, Robot.

Then Will Smith will save the day when he's not trying to pursue happiness.

hahahaha

i think half the world is so dependent on technology we dont know how to go back, if technology fails, does anybody really know how to make stuff from scratch? i tried making fire with rocks and sticks....doesnt work

[cpopbaby19]

^yup. .__. it's true.

our generation needs technology because we got used to it already. it suddenly became a necessity...

[Antz]

can't live without technology... it's everywhere. even if it simplifies our lives, it's such a pain in the butt for me, sometimes.
hmm.
more technology = becoming more dumb and lazy.
;

[EYJAYJAY]

we've become so dependent on technology that we cant go back. another major problem is that every single piece of technology we've created has some sort of problem, even if the problem is very minor. once we notice the problem, we attempt to fix it through the use of technology. basically, we create new technology to fix the old technology. that, together with the increasing demand of technology to ease our life, we're simply digging ourselves into a deep hole that we won't be able to climb out of. you can try to simplify it.. for a few days or weeks, but i dont think u'll succeed in avoiding the use of technology in the long run.

[boka]

i find that i have 23537574563565 bookmarks.
O___O how do i sort them all ...O___O

i try to be organised but my bookmarks menu always ends up something like:
- Bookmarks
- Links
- Miscellaneous
- New Folder
- New Folder (2)
- New Folder (3)
- Random sites

[rootless.]

Like everyone said before, it's too late for us to go back to the way things were.
Switch the Hummer for a horse and buggy and you've got a major international
crisis there. Take away the computer from the teenagers and you'll get riots all
over the world!!! We, as a large race of technology consumers, have gotten so
used to the overflow of this super-tech supply that we don't know anything before
that. Now the question is: where do we go on from here? Do we continue to build
upon this technological foundation or do we think about the effects of this tech-
spree and do something about the negative results of it?

[4ever_sweet]

One of the best creations: E-Mails!

Oh how simple they have made my life! No more annoying phone calls to bother me everywhere I go. Someone just sends me an e-mail and I read on my own free time. So awesome. One of the technology I LOVE!

Anyways, yea...........though tech. is making life simple, it's making life simple by making it complex. Does that make sense? It's a constantly learning to catch up w/tech in this lifetime. But once you catch up, the benefits are great (mostly)!

btw, I organize my bookmarks like this:

School Stuff
Download Sites
Photoshop Tools
Personal Stuff

[awdark]

But emails = spam... email is dead to me! Last time I got a real email was a while ago. Most of the time its those generated "Your order 12345 will be shipped"

Its great when I loose technology... Today I avoided my computer and got an INCREDIBLE amount done. Its like a whole list of stuff I needed to do but put off cos of school was taken care of yesterday morning.

[alicee]

I live in Oregon where it rains more than half of the year, so it's hard to go
out and play in the sun -__- But whenever I get bored at home, I always ask
my brother to drive me somewhere, like to the mall or the store, and we
just look around and sometimes stay there for hours looking at stuff xD
That's a lot of walking, yo. O.o

It really does go by fast, but it's a good way to go out and not be at
your computer/tv. When it's sunny here though (like in the summer),
I usually like to go to the park at least once a week and go play at
the playground near my house xD It really isn't that hard to just
leave technology behind for a few hours.

If your parents have time, why don't you ask them to take a walk
with you at the park or something? It's fun =D

[crystallizedtear]

If your parents have time, why don't you ask them to take a walk
with you at the park or something? It's fun =D

I used to walk to the library and through a park often... but it's freezing cold, even in March, here in Canada...haha...
my parents don't go to parks...and the park near my house is always filled with little kids...I feel kinda... weird going there XD. but that's a good idea...when the snow melts and spring comes, that is. If my mother wasn't so strict i'd be out more often =p

[Letter Kei]

Internet is really handy with keeping in touch with people and transferring information, but I agree that we've been getting a lot lazier. I love the net though and I can't get away from it. I was away for a week and I was feeling a little empty, haha.

[sphynkter]

why the heck do you have that many bookmarks. on my bookmarks bar i have like 15 links that i visit frequently. in my bookmarks menu i have like 15 or so bookmarks for sites that I don't visit as frequently but need to bookmark because I won't remember what the link is.

anyways, technology is great. if you remember what life was like before google, ugh. i don't even want to think about it. research was so damn tedious. i think it's weird for people to stay in doors all the time and just go online all day long. I know how to utilize technology and it's great but it's not everything. I still go outside when it's nice out and go to the beach with my friends. people who stay home on a sunny day and spend hours and hours online and never go out are lame.

[crystallizedtear]

anyways, technology is great. if you remember what life was like before google, ugh. i don't even want to think about it. research was so damn tedious. i think it's weird for people to stay in doors all the time and just go online all day long. I know how to utilize technology and it's great but it's not everything. I still go outside when it's nice out and go to the beach with my friends. people who stay home on a sunny day and spend hours and hours online and never go out are lame.

lol about google...gosh google is like a best friend...jking.

Are you saying I'm lame?
lol in gr 10 i used to stay in A LOT even in the summer because I was..lonely? (just moved)... and missed my old friends...but they lived so far...
(well at least i had summer job at the theatre with free movies..so that made me go out a bit)

but yeah, if it's good weather and i'm at home...it feels so 'stuffy'.

the weather's getting better now! ^O^ I joined the soccer team @ school, so that should be a good thing.

ps. tech does make me a lot lazier, though I still really love books. even more than the internet. it's also a bad idea to stay inside and read books all the time though ><''

pps. I have a TON of bookmarks, because whenever I come across an interesting site or a site with a lot of useful info I bookmark it. plus, I have a HUGE amount of interests - reading, writing, art, crafts, graphics, info, forums, etc etc etc. Gosh, you won't believe how the numbers of sites add up. The truth though, is, that I add the bookmark, but never really go back to the site I bookmarked. I'm on soompi a lot though ^^... and email, facebook... hm... that's it?

[crazyMuka]

^ well, don't worry about it too much because you'll grow out of it eventually. Once you get out of high school and into college, you'll find yourself working more, and studying more, or at least, that's how things are for me now. I used to be on the computer all the time too, because it was when I first started using the Internet and building websites and making online friends. But now, well, I go to forums from time to time, but am no longer so obsessed about it. Having a job is the best way to keep you away from the comp and have something productive to do I think, lol. And no matter how important technology is to us, we always have the choice to depend on it, or not; or better yet, take a good advantage of it. Take photography as an example. Photography would be impossible w/o new technology. With a camera in hand, you can do so much with it, you can go to places and capture the moments.

[KTHubbybunch]

one thing to simplify our lives is to learn how to WAIT. don't just buy whatever is out in the market. That's the keypoint to enjoy technology. =)