Question of the Day - Friday, July 4th, 2025

[tripletfeb]

Hmmm, I'm not sure

 

[SkyAJK]

I would like to move back to the time before mobile phone.

Now the mobile phone is a constant interruption, scam, personal information at high risk of being stolen, a constant update of apps, update of phone.

There are many articles about loneliness of the old and the young alike. But I see many people walking, sitting in coffee alone with their mobiles phone.

I went grocery shopping yesterday, as we queue up at the check out, an elderly man was making small conversation with a middle age lady in front of him, she smiled at him and back to her phone reading. This is where we are now.

My phone is not always with me, and my family members are at time quite upset with me for not picking up their calls, but I was in the garden with my chickens and the phone was in the living room. They did not have any pressing issues for calling me.

I would like to move back to the time before mobile phone.

 

[5Australorpasaures]

100 years from now, honestly. Maybe we'll finally be ready to get along and get off this rock together by then.

Don't bet on it.

 

[5Australorpasaures]

I would like to move back to the time before mobile phone.

Now the mobile phone is a constant interruption, scam, personal information at high risk of being stolen, a constant update of apps, update of phone.

There are many articles about loneliness of the old and the young alike. But I see many people walking, sitting in coffee alone with their mobiles phone.

I went grocery shopping yesterday, as we queue up at the check out, an elderly man was making small conversation with a middle age lady in front of him, she smiled at him and back to her phone reading. This is where we are now.

My phone is not always with me, and my family members are at time quite upset with me for not picking up their calls, but I was in the garden with my chickens and the phone was in the living room. They did not have any pressing issues for calling me.

I would like to move back to the time before mobile phone.

 

[C Siena]

YES! Bring me back 25 years, please, and get me out of this AI nightmare. I feel like Google searches were actually useful back then, too.

I don't think I want the tech to go back 25 years But I ignore "A not so I". I have read several places, that AI is wrong many times. I don't like it, nor someone generating something AI on purpose to give False data.
When an AI answer is on a search, I scroll past.

 

[C Siena]

Before mobile phones and digital cameras, when some thought was put into taking a photograph (so that you would not waste film), and when people still hand wrote out thank you notes. However, I am thankful for the medical advancements of the present.

When people hand wrote thank you notes...How about when people took the time to say thank you for a gift? Of course it's the giving of the gift but I was taught that one should send (mail) a Thank you within 2 weeks of a gift. I think the standard was longer for weddings due to the amount needed to send.

We just received a digital invitation to a wedding! Really? No, I'm too old for that. I know many will disagree with us but we didn't like it. Too much digital takes out the personal for us but we didn't grow up with computers.

I'll stop with my rant.

 

[tripletfeb]

When people hand wrote thank you notes...How about when people took the time to say thank you for a gift? Of course it's the giving of the gift but I was taught that one should send (mail) a Thank you within 2 weeks of a gift. I think the standard was longer for weddings due to the amount needed to send.

We just received a digital invitation to a wedding! Really? No, I'm too old for that. I know many will disagree with us but we didn't like it. Too much digital takes out the personal for us but we didn't grow up with computers.

I'll stop with my rant.

Digital invite for a wedding is in poor taste, in my opinion. I don't go to any gatherings if I don't get a physical invite or invited over the phone. I don't have facebook or anything so if someone invites my family on there, I never see it

 

[BoundlessLove]

I would say:

When someone could fix/work on a car without needing a certain computer hooked up to it to tell you what might be wrong.
When all you had to do was roll up the window instead of hope your window motor did not go out.

When people actually sent Christmas, Birthday, Holiday, etc. cards instead of a text message. (I still mail out cards.)

When students read from actual school books instead of reading from their iPads or Chromebooks.
And they played outside using their imagination instead of staring at a screen all day.

When I gave an order to a person in the drive through instead of trying to maneuver through menus on the touch order screens.

 

[notabitail]

I would say:

When someone could fix/work on a car without needing a certain computer hooked up to it to tell you what might be wrong.
When all you had to do was roll up the window instead of hope your window motor did not go out.

When people actually sent Christmas, Birthday, Holiday, etc. cards instead of a text message. (I still mail out cards.)

When students read from actual school books instead of reading from their iPads or Chromebooks.
And they played outside using their imagination instead of staring at a screen all day.

When I gave an order to a person in the drive through instead of trying to maneuver through menus on the touch order screens.

Where on earth do they not have a thing to talk to at a drive through?

 

[notabitail]

Digital invite for a wedding is in poor taste, in my opinion. I don't go to any gatherings if I don't get a physical invite or invited over the phone. I don't have facebook or anything so if someone invites my family on there, I never see it

Digital invites are lame by my standards. A physical invite is a thing that can be kept to remember. A digital invite can disappear at the flip of a switch.