Is it normal to not care about new technologies?

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I am 27 year years old. I like new movies, music and fashions and I continue to have fun, so it's not like I am depressed or trapped in the past, but I don't care at all about updating technology.
I have a flip phone and a 13 year old laptop I keep at home and use like a PC. I find peoples' excessive use of smart phones to be rude and over-bearing. I don't want to spend any money updating because I like my technology as is. Am I insane or is it normal?

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Based on 52 votes (35 yes)
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  • thegypsysailor
    9 years ago

    You are definitely NOT normal. Everybody except you (and I) need the very latest, and not necessarily the greatest, thing on the market. A new car, phone, tablet, computer; you name it. That's what keeps the rich, rich. They spend gazillions of dollars on ads to convince us that we need the newest and bestest thing they have for us. And those ads have convinced so many of us that having a new, fancy, expensive car, driving right next to my 20 year old, super reliable, paid for Toyota pick up (which means we are in exactly the same place, going the same way, at the same moment), makes them smarter and better than I am. Go figure?
    Good on you for resisting their brainwashing, but let's hope there aren't any others like us out there, or the world economy would collapse overnight.

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  • Faceless
    9 years ago

    Fucked up how flip phones are considered nostalgic now. How do you listen to music in public then? Fuck everything else a smartphone does I use it to sync Oasis songs to how im feeling in each scenario I encounter throughout the day.

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  • Jeaneathean
    9 years ago

    There is a great obsession with having to have the newest and latest of everything, isn't there?

    People are suckers for promotions and adverts.

    If it ain't broke, don't fix it....

    And as for smartphones.... Any and every public place is full of people glued to the things. The last time I went to the pub every single person was on the damned thing all the time rather than actually talking to one another.

    So: to answer your question - yes it is normal.

    (I still listen to cassettes, by the way.)

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    • EccentricWeird
      9 years ago

      Well, cassettes age pretty badly, and their sound quality wasn't very good to begin with. They're also cumbersome and need to be changed frequently.

      Even 10 years ago you could buy a USB device the size of your thumb for 100 bucks that would hold and play more songs than a whole box of cassettes and without an external player.

      I understand not going for the 'latest and greatest', but please join us in the 21st century.

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      • disthing
        9 years ago

        Agreed, there's resisting new technology when it provides no greater benefit - and then there's resisting new technology despite all its benefits.

        There's certainly a hell of a lot of redundant tech out there, but why not have the best of both worlds? Pick the best of the new to replace the worst of the old, ignore the worst of the new and keep the best of the old.

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        • Jeaneathean
          9 years ago

          Look at how prized an asset a collection of vinyl records is now after everyone first put them in the loft and then binned them in the early nineties.

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        • Lynxikat
          9 years ago

          I don't think OP is completely resisting new technology, but one of my biggest pet peeves are people who absolutely just refuse to adapt or use new technology period, despite the good that it can to- or people who just turn their nose up at new technology, too.

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      • Jeaneathean
        9 years ago

        Thanks for your response.

        Don't get me wrong: I know the earth's not flat.

        But I can still listen to tapes from thirty (or more) years ago,and they still sound good. Some cassettes of mine still sound better than certain CDs.

        I have (some of the) new tech, but that doesn't mean I am going to abandon my Gerry Rafferty cassette from 1979 or whatever.

        I am a very big fan of 'vintage' music. You try and find some early Luis Russell or King Oliver on a digital medium. Much of it is simply not there. So you are looking at preserving the medium on vinyl or other analogue state. For now.

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        • EccentricWeird
          9 years ago

          >>>>:( I disagree with you so I hate you!!

          jks i love u

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      • Jeaneathean
        9 years ago

        Just got an iPad. Still got all my VHS tapes, however. Just to annoy you, really.

        Now I'm off out on my penny-farthing wearing my stovepipe hat.

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        • EccentricWeird
          9 years ago

          VHS stands for very highly stupid!!!!!

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          • Jeaneathean
            9 years ago

            Victory Has Succeeded because I am Very Highly Sophisticated.

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      • Goomats
        9 years ago

        I don't think you need to CHOOSE between owning cassettes and a USB device. I mean if you have the cassettes, why not use them. USB devices are useful as well. Keep 'em all.

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        • EccentricWeird
          9 years ago

          No >>>>>>>:(

          All men must march to the drumbeat of technological progress!!!!!!!

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    • disthing
      9 years ago

      I was waiting for the bus the other day, me amongst about 8 others.

      Literally everyone else was staring down at their phone. It looked bizarre, almost like they were asleep.

      This happened another couple of times when I was with friends at a night club. I was in a circle with 4 of my friends on the dancefloor, and they were all half-heartedly shuffling whilst looking down at their phones! Why go to dance and then spend the whole time texting? Very odd.

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  • Shackleford96
    9 years ago

    Do you like being different?

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    • shuggy-chan
      9 years ago

      i had a 10 plus year old "brick" nokia phone

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      • Shackleford96
        9 years ago

        IMPRESSIVE

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        • shuggy-chan
          9 years ago

          doesnt even have a camera on it

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          • VirgilManly
            9 years ago

            You can always add one if you have duct tape.

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  • Mekkars
    9 years ago

    But don't you want an auto pilot car when they make them that will get you to where you want to go when you are too tired to drive.

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  • VirgilManly
    9 years ago

    I've just discovered the wonders of indoor plumbing.

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  • Holzman_67
    9 years ago

    Im more or less the same but i love old movies so i suppose im trapped in the past. It gives me comfort

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  • green_boogers
    9 years ago

    Hi tech can be old tech. Btw, GPS is now cheap. Get one from Amazon.com for your car before they stop making them.

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    • EccentricWeird
      9 years ago

      Most newer phones serve as a GPS, you corporate troll!!!!

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    • Goomats
      9 years ago

      I would, but I don't want some robot lady telling me where to go. I can find my way around.

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      • green_boogers
        9 years ago

        I put the robot lady on mute.

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  • dickwashington
    9 years ago

    im the same way except its because cheap!

    i agree with how rude people with smart phones are when they have there face burried in it! thats one of the other reasons i dont upgrade i dont understand how any one can spend hours on phone

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