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Failing the Apptitude test.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Apps. Everywhere I look on my ipad or smart phone, someone is trying to seel an app.
Apparently I need an app to relax, an app to fall asleep, an app to get fit, an app to cook recipes, an app to remember I don't need an app.
Are we becoming completely inept without technology? 
What app really changes your life? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"There isn’t an app for loneliness
I would argue that things like WhatsApp and even the evil Facebook to go some way to making that condition better for many people.
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Again they’re a distraction I’d say. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"There isn’t an app for loneliness
Sims? although, I then became jealous that my Sims character was getting more action than me!
alternatively, Pornhub  "
I've played Sims Bustin Out extensively recently and my Sims always have a better life than me. Don't envy them when they have kids though. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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" Apps. Everywhere I look on my ipad or smart phone, someone is trying to seel an app.
Apparently I need an app to relax, an app to fall asleep, an app to get fit, an app to cook recipes, an app to remember I don't need an app.
Are we becoming completely inept without technology?
What app really changes your life? "
Those that are inept (and there are many) were so before apps |
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"Technology is a distraction to stop us thinking about the futility of all this.
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That's not loneliness, that's depression.
Connecting with people, whether that be via technology or not is what beats loneliness.
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"Technology is a distraction to stop us thinking about the futility of all this.
That's not loneliness, that's depression.
Connecting with people, whether that be via technology or not is what beats loneliness.
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I just want to add, I wasn't being flippant or dismissive here. Just thinking that you were talking about two different things. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Technology is a distraction to stop us thinking about the futility of all this."
Sometimes technology is the futility. If we just learnt how to do things, we may find fulfilment and a little sense of achievement? |
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The mobile phone is an amazing invention that enables you to easily communicate with people who aren't in your direct line of sight or earshot, whether they are down the road or the other side of the world, but a issue with them is they reduce communication between 2 people who are together in the same room. People can be so engrossed in their phones that they can ignore those closest to them. There's no app to fix that. |
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" Apps. Everywhere I look on my ipad or smart phone, someone is trying to seel an app.
Apparently I need an app to relax, an app to fall asleep, an app to get fit, an app to cook recipes, an app to remember I don't need an app.
Are we becoming completely inept without technology?
What app really changes your life? "
I think an Audi ad I hear on spottfy sums it up
Smug voice over guy
" they say people only use 10 percent of their brain! Audi think you shouldn't need to use that much" (list of needless do it for you tech)  !
If we say Google is not an app its open internet access I think I can safely say no app has either changed my life or I'd struggle without
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The mobile phone is an amazing invention that enables you to easily communicate with people who aren't in your direct line of sight or earshot, whether they are down the road or the other side of the world, but a issue with them is they reduce communication between 2 people who are together in the same room. People can be so engrossed in their phones that they can ignore those closest to them. There's no app to fix that."
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"The mobile phone is an amazing invention that enables you to easily communicate with people who aren't in your direct line of sight or earshot, whether they are down the road or the other side of the world, but a issue with them is they reduce communication between 2 people who are together in the same room. People can be so engrossed in their phones that they can ignore those closest to them. There's no app to fix that.
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But you can't blame that behaviour on the technology. That's people choosing not to talk to each other.
Television does that too.
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"The mobile phone is an amazing invention that enables you to easily communicate with people who aren't in your direct line of sight or earshot, whether they are down the road or the other side of the world, but a issue with them is they reduce communication between 2 people who are together in the same room. People can be so engrossed in their phones that they can ignore those closest to them. There's no app to fix that.
But you can't blame that behaviour on the technology. That's people choosing not to talk to each other.
Television does that too.
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I wasn't blaming technology, it was just an observation |
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Two I use.... one is local travel and it will show you best routes from your exact location walking or using public transport.
The other is a supermarket one where I scan and pack my shopping as I go, scan a code from my phone at self check out and pay, pay so no interaction with anyone needed |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The mobile phone is an amazing invention that enables you to easily communicate with people who aren't in your direct line of sight or earshot, whether they are down the road or the other side of the world, but a issue with them is they reduce communication between 2 people who are together in the same room. People can be so engrossed in their phones that they can ignore those closest to them. There's no app to fix that."
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By *hav02Man
over a year ago
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"There isn’t an app for loneliness
Sims? although, I then became jealous that my Sims character was getting more action than me!
alternatively, Pornhub
I've played Sims Bustin Out extensively recently and my Sims always have a better life than me. Don't envy them when they have kids though."
haha exactly! i ended up uninstalling after making them suffer some terrible "disasters"  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I'm really starting to question how apps are put together to build in addiction and time spent on them, and ultimately allowing people to manipulate and advertise to us. Like even the dumb thing on WhatsApp or Snapchat where it tells you when someone is typing and the blue ticks and last seen, it the gold and red hearts for best friends - that's to keep you there isn't it, because otherwise you'd have left the message and then come back later, but if you leave when they're typing it makes you a rude cunt! Same with fab, too, lets take another spin of the wheel to see if someone fancies me and if I'm any good, all while someone advertises or takes a fee....
I'm increasingly thinking technology is THE cunt, not the poor fuckers who's time it is selling to advertisers and who's mood it manipulates. Advertising is the true customer and users are the product....
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By (user no longer on site)
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Sorry OP, didn't answer the question. No app really does much for me or gives me anything I didn't have before they existed, they're just a quicker, less personal way of getting shit. I use them though, it's difficult not to, and WhatsApp is my fave because I like to text a LOT and it's quite basic....  |
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"There isn’t an app for loneliness tinder  "
If I could shoot one App into the sun it would be Tinder - in the hope that its imitators would follow. The connection between human beings shouldn't be gamified and that's what this does. I'd stay up swiping, "Just one more match and I'll go to bed..." When I realised that incipient addiction I deleted it.
This thrill of chasing the match is one reason I've not downloaded the Covid App yet |
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"I'm really starting to question how apps are put together to build in addiction and time spent on them, and ultimately allowing people to manipulate and advertise to us. Like even the dumb thing on WhatsApp or Snapchat where it tells you when someone is typing and the blue ticks and last seen, it the gold and red hearts for best friends - that's to keep you there isn't it, because otherwise you'd have left the message and then come back later, but if you leave when they're typing it makes you a rude cunt! Same with fab, too, lets take another spin of the wheel to see if someone fancies me and if I'm any good, all while someone advertises or takes a fee....
I'm increasingly thinking technology is THE cunt, not the poor fuckers who's time it is selling to advertisers and who's mood it manipulates. Advertising is the true customer and users are the product....
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Read about gamification of apps. It's quite interesting, and has good sides as well as bad.
Useful in work/task/goal oriented apps as it helps you complete the things you want to.
Less useful in social media etc. as it sucks more of your time. |
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"I'm really starting to question how apps are put together to build in addiction and time spent on them, and ultimately allowing people to manipulate and advertise to us. Like even the dumb thing on WhatsApp or Snapchat where it tells you when someone is typing and the blue ticks and last seen, it the gold and red hearts for best friends - that's to keep you there isn't it, because otherwise you'd have left the message and then come back later, but if you leave when they're typing it makes you a rude cunt! Same with fab, too, lets take another spin of the wheel to see if someone fancies me and if I'm any good, all while someone advertises or takes a fee....
I'm increasingly thinking technology is THE cunt, not the poor fuckers who's time it is selling to advertisers and who's mood it manipulates. Advertising is the true customer and users are the product....
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Watch the Social Dilemma on Netflix, although most should know it already, it’s an insight from the creators of some of the apps we use and how they drag you in |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Organisation apps (calendar, note taking/todo lists and a recipe/shopping list app) have not 'changed my life' but have made it easier to manage my life. |
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