Technology and internet have given me more useless things to do in my free time, though I'm certain it hasn't done anything to add to my time allotment of leisure.
The biggest change of what? In technology? How technology has changed my life? I think the biggest change in technology has been the texting. I think, at least, that texting has affected the most people. As in, even for me, I don't call people anymore. Or I try not to. And if someone asks me to call them, I wonder why I can't just text them the same information so that I don't have to subject myself to talking to them. I view calling people with dread now.
And how has technology changed my life? I've lost my job recently and now I spend all the time I should spend looking for a job playing online computer games. It's made me lazy, as I'm sure it's done for a lot of people. It gives the illusion that we're accomplishing something when we're not. Before, I used to go to the park or take walks or go out and do things with my friends. Now I spend all my time watching television or playing video games or doing useless things on the computer.
And I would not use video phone if it were available. Nor would I receive phone calls from other people who want to use it. It would be another false sense of connection to other people. And I wouldn't want them to see how bored I look whilst talking to them on the phone. Because I am always bored while talking on the phone and I can't wait for it to be over. The last thing I would want is to get a phone call in public and have to walk around staring at my phone or to see hoards of other people all staring down at their phone. There's no privacy in that since the phone would have to be on speaker unless people use headphones or bluetooth for it. Which I doubt they will. Cell phones are annoying enough without hearing the entirety of the conversation.
Technology and the internet have actually given me less free time. When I have nothing else to do, it is a good thing, because it fixes my boredom. But, when I have a LOT to do, it gets me in trouble because I end up maintaining web pages and chatrooms instead of doing chores or homework or whatever.
The biggest change with me before and after I got my own computer and really got into graphic design and the internet was that I read a lot less. I used to read books all the time... now I don't. I also watch less TV, because everything I could get from TV I can get from the internet faster and cheaper.
If my phone could make video calls, I would most definitely use that feature. I love Skype, and being able to do the same thing on my phone would be amazing. I have a Sprint phone, and I can't even take videos with the camera. But I would love being able to use video calls, since I am going to college in less than two weeks and my aunt is pregnant with my new baby cousin and one of my cousins is also pregnant, and I am having to leave my boyfriend behind. It would really be lovely to be able to call all of them and see their faces and the new additions to our families.
I think it has given me less free time. I have to really limit the time I'm going to be online if I want to get anything else during the day. There is more to life than social networks, email, and the like.
Even though I can find a ton of resources online, if I don't spend any time with them, what benefit are they to me? No, I have less free time and find that I get less done that needs to get done.
Which reminds me, I need to do dishes, clean up my area, and engage in more off-line study.
Time is an illusion. Free Time, doubly so. In theory, since I've been "unemployed" since 2003, all my time has been "free". The reality is something different.
I would never use video phone. I hate the sound of my own voice and my looks are nothing special, so why inflict them on the world?
I think it has given you more free time, because when you have a paper for school that you electronically turn in you get it typed and turned in faster than when you have to write it out and turn it in in-person or even if you type it out and turn it in. This is because, when you can turn it in right away, you hurry up and get it done so that you dont miss the deadline and so that you can get it off your plate, which is another reason the internet creates more free time. When you want to do what you want on your computer you hurry up and get all of your work done. Thus creating free time for you to use on your laptop.
I would also make video calls if my phone had that feature. I just bought the iphone 4 which is still being processed, and it has the front video camera. I honestly cant wait to use this feature. This way i can skype other people with the same phone, and i think i can skype other skype users on their computer. Im not 100% sure, but i think its possible. I think it is such a cool tool that they have invented. Its awesome.
Total free time is about the same. The internet has freed me from slogging around town looking for specific harder-to-find things we need. I can order them, saving time, gasoline, and sometimes money.
The time I spend on the Internet otherwise is the time I'd spend reading or watching TV, so it's pretty much even-steven in that respect.
I think I use my 'free time' online. Actually I have to be really careful about completely losing myself online! It opens a whole world of people and fandom just sucks me in!
My husbands new iPhone 4 *does* make video calls! We love it. We have a friend w/ a daughter 2 weeks younger than Ana who moved out-of-state and we've already spoken w/ him that way and let the two of them natter-on with each other. It's so cute! Of course, he obviously also has and iPhone 4 to make it work. But I think it's great and I bet lots of other folks would find it useful, as well.
Technology and the Internet use is my free time. My biggest change is that I used to love reading books, and I used to spend a day reading a book or two from cover to cover--now I read random short stories online, and can't gauge how much I read. I would not make video calls, because I don't make phone calls. I text, or see the person in person. I don't email, I don't call, and I don't use Skype or whatever it's called.
Definitely less. Whenever I plan on doing something (ie: homework during the school year), I can't bring myself to do it; I always go straight to my laptop and see who's online. Technology overall has made an impact on my life that I can't even describe. It's just part of everyday life now. I would never be able to imagine what it was like without the internet, sadly enough. Being online has just become a part of my daily routine now. Even when I get bored, I go to the internet to see what I can do to fix that. And when I'm on the go, I have my Zune HD which has some pretty entertaining apps as well as wifi, so if I'm near a hotspot I still have access to the internet.
As for video calls via my phone, I personally wouldn't do it. I'm not a big phone person. I find it would be awkward to be holding a phone up to my face anyways. Like on that one commercial for Skype, I think. Where the girl and guy are video chatting on their phones and the girl is telling him (in a more en-longed way than necessary) that's she's pregnant. I just find it to be a useless feature for my daily life, anyways. I'd rather text message someone. But if I had to choose between calling someone and video chatting with them on my phone, I'd most likely call them. I'm sure the app or whatever for video chatting would take awhile to load and even then, that doesn't guarentee that the person you want to speak to is online and if they are, I'm sure they're not waiting by their phone to start video chatting. That's what webcams are for. And if you're out and about then you're probably too busy to be video chatting, right?
It has given me more free time what with being able to do things faster, however I do spend alot of that free time using technology so... =D I am only 20 so I cant really remember much of the non technological age because things were changing when I was a kid, but things like no more tapes or VHS, easier to contact people, pay bills or buy things. I think, with all of technologies faults, the advantages are overwhelming. As long as people dont hole up and become what the society was like in Wall-E then it is better.
If my phone could make video calls I would use it because its a step towards seeing someone in person. They say over the phone is impersonal but it isnt always easy to see someone in person so it would be a nicer way to talk to someone, being able to see them...
Probably both... in some ways it definitely helps me out with getting information faster, but the onslaught of all the additional and new information that the internet opens up for me probably causes me to end up with less free time. The biggest change is probably that now I am never bored anymore - I always can find something to be doing, either online or in real life, thanks to the internet. If my phone could make video calls, I probably would not use that feature since I talk on the phone in so many situations where I either cannot look at the phone (as when driving) or when I do not want to be seen by the person on the other end...
I think that essentially the internet has given me more time. Researching and studying is easier. I can just pull up a few windows of articles and find what I need. Internet on the phone is easily the best invention (with the exception of people who do it while driving...that's not well thought out people!).
Internet on the phone has afforded the biggest change in that I can look up instructions, and places to eat, and things to do nearby.
As for a video phone call: YES! I plan on doing that with this phone. Especially the white one!!! It's way better than the iPhone to me. ps: I am going to take a huge jump by joining my boyfriend's plan and this is the phone we both will have (as well as our best friend!) so that's at least 2 people to video chat with.
I like the idea of using the video call because only verbal cues make up only 7% of communication. The rest is comprised of body language (I include facial expressions in this).
I just wish battery life could keep up. ...maybe I'll invent one!!!
Technology has given me more spare time. (Though I hate to admit it, really.) Mainly due to the internet, I save time communicating amongst my group of friends. (i.e. instead of a phone call I can check Twitter or text them) The biggest change is probably being able to check all of my sites via a cell phone! I don't think I'd make video calls, but it is a really cool feature since texting can seem emotionless at times.
Technology has given me more free time, though I spend this extra free time with technology instead of painting or doing yard work. The biggest change is being able to look for directions, hours and information on the web, without having to wait for help. I currently have no use for a video phone, but I might use it if I was away from my loved ones for a long period of time without a computer with video chat.
I think I waste a lot of time on the internet when I should be doing other things, like housework. Before I had DS I was either on the internet or playing Sims almost constantly.
INTERNET I think the potential amount of free time hasn't changed one way or another, but how we spend free time has, and the Internet is a main driver behind that. Imagine, because of the Internet, I can:
write this entry;
use facebook (huge time waster if not careful);
play in online virtual worlds like Second Life and Twinity, where my proxy interacts with the proxies of others, in place that don't actually exist;
do my banking and pall my bills;
watch television that I missed watching before;
search and find data and opinions that I might not have found otherwise.
So the big difference is in the variety of ways I can innteract with people and things that I might never have met or known about before. And that, is a big change.
VIDEO PHONES It might be nice to have that feature sometimes, but I doubt that I would use it much and I would only accept such a feature if I could turn it off.Do I really want total strangers trying to sell me gold pens for charity to see me at my less than best? I think not.
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WTF? I answer these bloody questions for fun, so FUCK OFF.
I don't talk to anyone over the phone that i would really care to see over a video call, honestly. I'm usually always with my bf...so i'm usually not on the phone with him. lol..but he is the only person i would care to see over video calls. Being online is within my free time...isn't it that way for everyone? I mean, unless they work online that is. Stupid question. Only answered it out of boredom.
Given me less omg. If I didn't spend so much time on the computer... I'd be much more productive. But the computer helps me relax and unwind, so I guess it's not that bad. I've had a computer in the house to use since I was 6... Had the internet since I was 12. I seriously doubt I'd use video calls, unless Zeke was out of town for extended periods of time.
Well I have no idea how technology would give me more free time...then again I'm 20 so that must be a question for older people...
I do think it makes us all desire more free time however making us impatient as hell , making us resent working more , and therefore hating are jobs even more ! And I know without internet we would hate our jobs pretty much anyway , but for alot of people work can be something to look forward to because it means your keeping yourself busy , and ocupied right?
Number two I don't even HAVE a cell phone , I barely have money why would I get one and make video calls on it? Even if I did have a phone and It could do that , I wouldn't because no doubt you would have to add some other outrageous plan to use that feature...its bad enough we have to pay to talk on cell phones! We have to pay to text! That's just stupid ....Texting? I mean really? How on earth does that require so much more work for the company they feel they need to charge you 15 cents a text?
I need a cell phone , but thats because no one stays in one place long enough for landline calls anymore and they arnt putting up payphones anywhere I live >.>;
Companys are taking other peoples wonderful inventions and exploiting them for greedy purposes , I wish someone would stop them , Oh and if i havent blogged in 20 days , You'll know they hired someone to kill me ... <rolls eyes>
Technology and internet has definately given me more time. I can pay my bills manage my finances without having to drive and waste gas driving to several differnt locations. Communication time is more flexable, i can be anywhere that my phone has service and recieve emails, texts, phone calls. i may be more accessable to people, however that is the only down side of technology and maybe the biggest change.
If my phone did have video chat i would take advantage of the feature because my family and friends are so far away.
This is a funny question to answer since most of my free time is spent using technology and the Internet. I'd say it's probably given me more free time. I wasn't around during the time that people didn't use computers to type up essays for school, but for most of middle school and high school, I had no computer, and if I couldn't get to the library to type up my essays, I'd have to write them out in pen and hope for the best. My handwriting isn't too bad, but when I'm writing up and essay that should be typed, I have a tendancy to slow it down and try to make my handwriting look even better, so it definitely takes me longer to write out essays. As far as the research for the essays, it's most definitely easier to find resources on the internet than it is to scour through books. It's also easier to apply for certain jobs, like Target, WalMart, Albertsons, or King Soopers, since most of those jobs do their applications by machine now. You don't have to worry about picking up and then delivering the applications for as many jobs. Speaking as a person who has pretty much had internet as a part of my life since I was old enough to care about using a computer, I can't really define any big changes it's made. It's always been there, so I don't have much experience of what it was like before the Internet.
If my phone could make video calls, I probably wouldn't use it. I hardly actually call people over the phone anymore. Most of my communication is done through texts. When I do exchange phonecalls with someone, it's usually my mom, and more than likely, she's at work. It wouldn't really be appropriate for her to be using video calls while she's working. It seems too casual to me. There may come a day when video calls are all there is, and if that time comes, then I probably will use video calls, if not because it's the only form of communication then at least because it would be more of a norm in society and wouldn't seem as strange to me as it does right now.
Both yes and no. I mean, has it helped make my life easier? Yes. Absolutely. Do I have more free time because of it? Maybe. Without it, I wouldn't have more free time, so I can't say that it hasn't made my life easier, but I'm a fairly busy person, so I don't really have a lot of free time.
If my phone could make good, high quality video calls, I would use the feature, as long as it didn't make my mobile plan payments go through the roof. It would drive me insane if it was slow and laggy- it would have to be a super smooth, streamlined vcall, not broken up and laggy like an online chat using dial-up. Also, the camera on the phone would have to be fairly small, and not able to turn on in my purse- I don't even want to know the results of pocket dialing when people can actually see me. So if it was purse proof and streamlined, I would be all over it.
I'm pretty sure technology and the internet has impacted all of us. Personally, I spend most of my day on my blackberry browser. The internet has taken up my life, let alone my time. And no, I would not make video calls, that beats the purpose of ever meeting and catching up in person. Just doesn't make sense to me.
New Technology is always changing by the day. There is so much competition and commerce in this world, I can't see how there is enough room for both the technology and the internet. With this much said, I must say that there is definately less free time. In order to keep up with this fast paced world, we are somewhat forced to keep in tune with new gadgets and new technolgy. We are also forced to follow the new communication world. With everything, the new things in life has always forced all of the old to become obsolete. I believe that if we could make video calls from our phones, well, our cell phones, we could very well become that much more compatible with how we communicate. If I could see the other person that I was talking to, I might be more prone to understand the entire conversation without ever second guessing a thing. It might be a life dwelling tool that we could use as well. If ever we had the last chance to say our good byes to the loved ones who are in their last hour, and couldn't be there in person, a video conversation could very well make that last contact the most meaningful and most heart felt moment in our lives. Sometimes, we do indeed need that visual contact in order to express the most vulnerable feelings that could not be expressed otherwise.
I definitely have less free time now that I have the internet, especially with it on my phone now.
It's so hard to pull yourself away with things like Facebook, Livejournal, and of course -StumbleUpon.
When I'm out of things to write or people stop posting on my wall, I could hit the Stumble button forever, it's like a random tour of the internet. Probably the biggest change in my life, having grown up having a computer in the house, is the variety of ways to communicate with people. Where a phone call used to be the only way, now we have texting, instant message, Facebook Chat...it's insane. You don't have to actually speak to anyone anymore, and as much as I say I hate it, I think it makes things more comfortable, easier to say (or not to say). For this reason, I probably would not make video calls, for a couple of reasons: I would have to do my hair, makeup, etc before a call so I would look "acceptable," and I don't normally make a lot of phonecalls. This feature seems GREAT for those who grew up speaking on the telephone, or families/friends living far apart, but for those of us who have our entire world in our immediate area, it's a superfluous feature.
It depends on what I'm going on teh interwebs for. IF I'm going on to just check my email, I'll probably only spend an hour doing that and checking the thirty websites I check daily. But, if I go on just to kill some time, I will go searching for something to occupy my time. And I don't mean dinky flash games or fml.com. I mean, searching for online art magazines that I can afford (i.e. free) and then spending three or four hours reading back issues of said magazines in Finnish. Or something that looks like Finnish. Thank God they have the English translations next to it.
The biggest change is the sheer amount of random information you can find/discover/search for on the internet. I'm pretty sure I'll be subscribing to Google as my new religion in a couple of years.
I don't think I would use a video calling feature as much, but it would definitely be a perk. Bring back face to face conversing I say!! Just not in the way most of us expected... ;P
Technology has given me more free time since it makes many things easier. For example, if there is a paper due in school or something, I can just email the professor instead of driving all the way across town and going to the professor in person. If my phone could make video calls, I doubt I would use it other than once in a blue moon.
It has given me less time and has been a big obstacle in school and goals. But no matter how much I want to turn away from it, I just can't. It seems I just can't live without it now since it is one of the things that connects me to relatives and friends.
I don't know if I would use video calls. I would prefer just calling since it's so much more comfortable.
Has technology and the Internet given you more or less free time? What's the biggest change?
Has technology and the Internet given you more or less free time? What's the biggest change?
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Technology and internet have given me more useless things to do in my free time, though I'm certain it hasn't done anything to add to my time allotment of leisure.
The biggest change of what? In technology? How technology has changed my life?
I think the biggest change in technology has been the texting. I think, at least, that texting has affected the most people. As in, even for me, I don't call people anymore. Or I try not to. And if someone asks me to call them, I wonder why I can't just text them the same information so that I don't have to subject myself to talking to them. I view calling people with dread now.
And how has technology changed my life? I've lost my job recently and now I spend all the time I should spend looking for a job playing online computer games. It's made me lazy, as I'm sure it's done for a lot of people. It gives the illusion that we're accomplishing something when we're not. Before, I used to go to the park or take walks or go out and do things with my friends. Now I spend all my time watching television or playing video games or doing useless things on the computer.
And I would not use video phone if it were available. Nor would I receive phone calls from other people who want to use it. It would be another false sense of connection to other people. And I wouldn't want them to see how bored I look whilst talking to them on the phone. Because I am always bored while talking on the phone and I can't wait for it to be over. The last thing I would want is to get a phone call in public and have to walk around staring at my phone or to see hoards of other people all staring down at their phone. There's no privacy in that since the phone would have to be on speaker unless people use headphones or bluetooth for it. Which I doubt they will. Cell phones are annoying enough without hearing the entirety of the conversation.
Technology and the internet have actually given me less free time. When I have nothing else to do, it is a good thing, because it fixes my boredom. But, when I have a LOT to do, it gets me in trouble because I end up maintaining web pages and chatrooms instead of doing chores or homework or whatever.
The biggest change with me before and after I got my own computer and really got into graphic design and the internet was that I read a lot less. I used to read books all the time... now I don't. I also watch less TV, because everything I could get from TV I can get from the internet faster and cheaper.
If my phone could make video calls, I would most definitely use that feature. I love Skype, and being able to do the same thing on my phone would be amazing. I have a Sprint phone, and I can't even take videos with the camera. But I would love being able to use video calls, since I am going to college in less than two weeks and my aunt is pregnant with my new baby cousin and one of my cousins is also pregnant, and I am having to leave my boyfriend behind. It would really be lovely to be able to call all of them and see their faces and the new additions to our families.
I think it has given me less free time. I have to really limit the time I'm going to be online if I want to get anything else during the day. There is more to life than social networks, email, and the like.
Even though I can find a ton of resources online, if I don't spend any time with them, what benefit are they to me? No, I have less free time and find that I get less done that needs to get done.
Which reminds me, I need to do dishes, clean up my area, and engage in more off-line study.
Time is an illusion. Free Time, doubly so. In theory, since I've been "unemployed" since 2003, all my time has been "free". The reality is something different.
I would never use video phone. I hate the sound of my own voice and my looks are nothing special, so why inflict them on the world?
I think it has given you more free time, because when you have a paper for school that you electronically turn in you get it typed and turned in faster than when you have to write it out and turn it in in-person or even if you type it out and turn it in. This is because, when you can turn it in right away, you hurry up and get it done so that you dont miss the deadline and so that you can get it off your plate, which is another reason the internet creates more free time. When you want to do what you want on your computer you hurry up and get all of your work done. Thus creating free time for you to use on your laptop.
I would also make video calls if my phone had that feature. I just bought the iphone 4 which is still being processed, and it has the front video camera. I honestly cant wait to use this feature. This way i can skype other people with the same phone, and i think i can skype other skype users on their computer. Im not 100% sure, but i think its possible. I think it is such a cool tool that they have invented. Its awesome.
Total free time is about the same. The internet has freed me from slogging around town looking for specific harder-to-find things we need. I can order them, saving time, gasoline, and sometimes money.
The time I spend on the Internet otherwise is the time I'd spend reading or watching TV, so it's pretty much even-steven in that respect.
I think I use my 'free time' online. Actually I have to be really careful about completely losing myself online! It opens a whole world of people and fandom just sucks me in!
My husbands new iPhone 4 *does* make video calls! We love it. We have a friend w/ a daughter 2 weeks younger than Ana who moved out-of-state and we've already spoken w/ him that way and let the two of them natter-on with each other. It's so cute! Of course, he obviously also has and iPhone 4 to make it work. But I think it's great and I bet lots of other folks would find it useful, as well.
Technology and the Internet use is my free time. My biggest change is that I used to love reading books, and I used to spend a day reading a book or two from cover to cover--now I read random short stories online, and can't gauge how much I read. I would not make video calls, because I don't make phone calls. I text, or see the person in person. I don't email, I don't call, and I don't use Skype or whatever it's called.
Definitely less. Whenever I plan on doing something (ie: homework during the school year), I can't bring myself to do it; I always go straight to my laptop and see who's online. Technology overall has made an impact on my life that I can't even describe. It's just part of everyday life now. I would never be able to imagine what it was like without the internet, sadly enough. Being online has just become a part of my daily routine now. Even when I get bored, I go to the internet to see what I can do to fix that. And when I'm on the go, I have my Zune HD which has some pretty entertaining apps as well as wifi, so if I'm near a hotspot I still have access to the internet.
As for video calls via my phone, I personally wouldn't do it. I'm not a big phone person. I find it would be awkward to be holding a phone up to my face anyways. Like on that one commercial for Skype, I think. Where the girl and guy are video chatting on their phones and the girl is telling him (in a more en-longed way than necessary) that's she's pregnant. I just find it to be a useless feature for my daily life, anyways. I'd rather text message someone. But if I had to choose between calling someone and video chatting with them on my phone, I'd most likely call them. I'm sure the app or whatever for video chatting would take awhile to load and even then, that doesn't guarentee that the person you want to speak to is online and if they are, I'm sure they're not waiting by their phone to start video chatting. That's what webcams are for. And if you're out and about then you're probably too busy to be video chatting, right?
It has given me more free time what with being able to do things faster, however I do spend alot of that free time using technology so... =D I am only 20 so I cant really remember much of the non technological age because things were changing when I was a kid, but things like no more tapes or VHS, easier to contact people, pay bills or buy things. I think, with all of technologies faults, the advantages are overwhelming. As long as people dont hole up and become what the society was like in Wall-E then it is better.
If my phone could make video calls I would use it because its a step towards seeing someone in person. They say over the phone is impersonal but it isnt always easy to see someone in person so it would be a nicer way to talk to someone, being able to see them...
Probably both... in some ways it definitely helps me out with getting information faster, but the onslaught of all the additional and new information that the internet opens up for me probably causes me to end up with less free time. The biggest change is probably that now I am never bored anymore - I always can find something to be doing, either online or in real life, thanks to the internet. If my phone could make video calls, I probably would not use that feature since I talk on the phone in so many situations where I either cannot look at the phone (as when driving) or when I do not want to be seen by the person on the other end...
Less free time!
I think that essentially the internet has given me more time. Researching and studying is easier. I can just pull up a few windows of articles and find what I need. Internet on the phone is easily the best invention (with the exception of people who do it while driving...that's not well thought out people!).
Internet on the phone has afforded the biggest change in that I can look up instructions, and places to eat, and things to do nearby.
As for a video phone call: YES! I plan on doing that with this phone. Especially the white one!!! It's way better than the iPhone to me.
ps: I am going to take a huge jump by joining my boyfriend's plan and this is the phone we both will have (as well as our best friend!) so that's at least 2 people to video chat with.
I like the idea of using the video call because only verbal cues make up only 7% of communication. The rest is comprised of body language (I include facial expressions in this).
I just wish battery life could keep up.
...maybe I'll invent one!!!
Technology has given me more spare time. (Though I hate to admit it, really.) Mainly due to the internet, I save time communicating amongst my group of friends. (i.e. instead of a phone call I can check Twitter or text them) The biggest change is probably being able to check all of my sites via a cell phone! I don't think I'd make video calls, but it is a really cool feature since texting can seem emotionless at times.
Technology has given me more free time, though I spend this extra free time with technology instead of painting or doing yard work. The biggest change is being able to look for directions, hours and information on the web, without having to wait for help. I currently have no use for a video phone, but I might use it if I was away from my loved ones for a long period of time without a computer with video chat.
I think I waste a lot of time on the internet when I should be doing other things, like housework. Before I had DS I was either on the internet or playing Sims almost constantly.
INTERNET
I think the potential amount of free time hasn't changed one way or another, but how we spend free time has, and the Internet is a main driver behind that. Imagine, because of the Internet, I can:
So the big difference is in the variety of ways I can innteract with people and things that I might never have met or known about before. And that, is a big change.
VIDEO PHONES
It might be nice to have that feature sometimes, but I doubt that I would use it much and I would only accept such a feature if I could turn it off.Do I really want total strangers trying to sell me gold pens for charity to see me at my less than best? I think not.
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I don't talk to anyone over the phone that i would really care to see over a video call, honestly. I'm usually always with my bf...so i'm usually not on the phone with him. lol..but he is the only person i would care to see over video calls. Being online is within my free time...isn't it that way for everyone? I mean, unless they work online that is. Stupid question. Only answered it out of boredom.
Given me less omg. If I didn't spend so much time on the computer... I'd be much more productive. But the computer helps me relax and unwind, so I guess it's not that bad. I've had a computer in the house to use since I was 6... Had the internet since I was 12. I seriously doubt I'd use video calls, unless Zeke was out of town for extended periods of time.
Well I have no idea how technology would give me more free time...then again I'm 20 so that must be a question for older people...
I do think it makes us all desire more free time however making us impatient as hell , making us resent working more , and therefore hating are jobs even more ! And I know without internet we would hate our jobs pretty much anyway , but for alot of people work can be something to look forward to because it means your keeping yourself busy , and ocupied right?
Number two I don't even HAVE a cell phone , I barely have money why would I get one and make video calls on it? Even if I did have a phone and It could do that , I wouldn't because no doubt you would have to add some other outrageous plan to use that feature...its bad enough we have to pay to talk on cell phones! We have to pay to text! That's just stupid ....Texting? I mean really? How on earth does that require so much more work for the company they feel they need to charge you 15 cents a text?
I need a cell phone , but thats because no one stays in one place long enough for landline calls anymore and they arnt putting up payphones anywhere I live >.>;
Companys are taking other peoples wonderful inventions and exploiting them for greedy purposes , I wish someone would stop them ,
Oh and if i havent blogged in 20 days , You'll know they hired someone to kill me ...
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Technology and internet has definately given me more time. I can pay my bills manage my finances without having to drive and waste gas driving to several differnt locations. Communication time is more flexable, i can be anywhere that my phone has service and recieve emails, texts, phone calls. i may be more accessable to people, however that is the only down side of technology and maybe the biggest change.
If my phone did have video chat i would take advantage of the feature because my family and friends are so far away.
This is a funny question to answer since most of my free time is spent using technology and the Internet. I'd say it's probably given me more free time. I wasn't around during the time that people didn't use computers to type up essays for school, but for most of middle school and high school, I had no computer, and if I couldn't get to the library to type up my essays, I'd have to write them out in pen and hope for the best. My handwriting isn't too bad, but when I'm writing up and essay that should be typed, I have a tendancy to slow it down and try to make my handwriting look even better, so it definitely takes me longer to write out essays. As far as the research for the essays, it's most definitely easier to find resources on the internet than it is to scour through books. It's also easier to apply for certain jobs, like Target, WalMart, Albertsons, or King Soopers, since most of those jobs do their applications by machine now. You don't have to worry about picking up and then delivering the applications for as many jobs. Speaking as a person who has pretty much had internet as a part of my life since I was old enough to care about using a computer, I can't really define any big changes it's made. It's always been there, so I don't have much experience of what it was like before the Internet.
If my phone could make video calls, I probably wouldn't use it. I hardly actually call people over the phone anymore. Most of my communication is done through texts. When I do exchange phonecalls with someone, it's usually my mom, and more than likely, she's at work. It wouldn't really be appropriate for her to be using video calls while she's working. It seems too casual to me. There may come a day when video calls are all there is, and if that time comes, then I probably will use video calls, if not because it's the only form of communication then at least because it would be more of a norm in society and wouldn't seem as strange to me as it does right now.
Both yes and no. I mean, has it helped make my life easier? Yes. Absolutely. Do I have more free time because of it? Maybe. Without it, I wouldn't have more free time, so I can't say that it hasn't made my life easier, but I'm a fairly busy person, so I don't really have a lot of free time.
If my phone could make good, high quality video calls, I would use the feature, as long as it didn't make my mobile plan payments go through the roof. It would drive me insane if it was slow and laggy- it would have to be a super smooth, streamlined vcall, not broken up and laggy like an online chat using dial-up. Also, the camera on the phone would have to be fairly small, and not able to turn on in my purse- I don't even want to know the results of pocket dialing when people can actually see me. So if it was purse proof and streamlined, I would be all over it.
I'm pretty sure technology and the internet has impacted all of us. Personally, I spend most of my day on my blackberry browser. The internet has taken up my life, let alone my time. And no, I would not make video calls, that beats the purpose of ever meeting and catching up in person. Just doesn't make sense to me.
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New Technology is always changing by the day. There is so much competition and commerce in this world, I can't see how there is enough room for both the technology and the internet. With this much said, I must say that there is definately less free time. In order to keep up with this fast paced world, we are somewhat forced to keep in tune with new gadgets and new technolgy. We are also forced to follow the new communication world. With everything, the new things in life has always forced all of the old to become obsolete. I believe that if we could make video calls from our phones, well, our cell phones, we could very well become that much more compatible with how we communicate. If I could see the other person that I was talking to, I might be more prone to understand the entire conversation without ever second guessing a thing. It might be a life dwelling tool that we could use as well. If ever we had the last chance to say our good byes to the loved ones who are in their last hour, and couldn't be there in person, a video conversation could very well make that last contact the most meaningful and most heart felt moment in our lives. Sometimes, we do indeed need that visual contact in order to express the most vulnerable feelings that could not be expressed otherwise.
Less free time. There always seems to be something to do. No I wouldn't make video calls. Sorry.
I definitely have less free time now that I have the internet, especially with it on my phone now.
It's so hard to pull yourself away with things like Facebook, Livejournal, and of course -StumbleUpon.
When I'm out of things to write or people stop posting on my wall, I could hit the Stumble button forever, it's like a random tour of the internet. Probably the biggest change in my life, having grown up having a computer in the house, is the variety of ways to communicate with people. Where a phone call used to be the only way, now we have texting, instant message, Facebook Chat...it's insane. You don't have to actually speak to anyone anymore, and as much as I say I hate it, I think it makes things more comfortable, easier to say (or not to say). For this reason, I probably would not make video calls, for a couple of reasons: I would have to do my hair, makeup, etc before a call so I would look "acceptable," and I don't normally make a lot of phonecalls. This feature seems GREAT for those who grew up speaking on the telephone, or families/friends living far apart, but for those of us who have our entire world in our immediate area, it's a superfluous feature.
It depends on what I'm going on teh interwebs for. IF I'm going on to just check my email, I'll probably only spend an hour doing that and checking the thirty websites I check daily. But, if I go on just to kill some time, I will go searching for something to occupy my time. And I don't mean dinky flash games or fml.com. I mean, searching for online art magazines that I can afford (i.e. free) and then spending three or four hours reading back issues of said magazines in Finnish. Or something that looks like Finnish. Thank God they have the English translations next to it.
The biggest change is the sheer amount of random information you can find/discover/search for on the internet. I'm pretty sure I'll be subscribing to Google as my new religion in a couple of years.
I don't think I would use a video calling feature as much, but it would definitely be a perk. Bring back face to face conversing I say!! Just not in the way most of us expected... ;P
Technology has given me more free time since it makes many things easier. For example, if there is a paper due in school or something, I can just email the professor instead of driving all the way across town and going to the professor in person. If my phone could make video calls, I doubt I would use it other than once in a blue moon.
It has given me less time and has been a big obstacle in school and goals. But no matter how much I want to turn away from it, I just can't. It seems I just can't live without it now since it is one of the things that connects me to relatives and friends.
I don't know if I would use video calls. I would prefer just calling since it's so much more comfortable.