Am I the only one who has never used any social media site? - Page 4

*Wesley* · 11-03-2014, 05:33 PM

Anyone remember using cassette tapes? I used them for years until a few months ago when I switched to CDs. I also didn't know that my dreamcast could play CDs until recently (I haven't used it for sometime, though).

Gunpowder · 11-03-2014, 05:42 PM

Speaking of CDs, my iPod broke a while back, and I've been using a CD player ever since. As it turns out, I prefer using that. It makes me appreciate the music more.

*Netkeeper* · 11-03-2014, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Prowler

I remember people buying PS2s just so they could own a cheap DVD player.

And I bought a PS3 so I could have a cheap blu ray player.

Some things don't change.

**Jester** · 11-03-2014, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Wesley

Anyone remember using cassette tapes? I used them for years until a few months ago when I switched to CDs. I also didn't know that my dreamcast could play CDs until recently (I haven't used it for sometime, though).

Still have a box full of cassettes, but my tape player sucks and speeds everything up slightly. It's just enough to make songs sound....off.

I've also been working through culling my "VHS tapes purchased from flea markets" collection. If I can combine or just flat get rid of some it'll be a win.

*CyberCubed* · 11-03-2014, 05:55 PM

I still remember in the early days of the internet when it took like 2 hours to download a 20 minute video.

The horror.

*DarkFell* · 11-03-2014, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Wesley

Anyone remember using cassette tapes? I used them for years until a few months ago when I switched to CDs. I also didn't know that my dreamcast could play CDs until recently (I haven't used it for sometime, though).

I still use cassette tapes whenever I find a working
cassette player. I still have PLENTY of tapes with quite a few awesome tracks and songs recorded on them.
For this topic I mainly do art sites and YouTube aside from TF. Never developed much of an interest to have a FB Twitter or a Skype account. Of course that might change in the long run.

*Prowler* · 11-03-2014, 07:58 PM

We've had a few cassettes when I was a kid. I remember English books always coming with a cassette, and the teacher bringing his/her big radio with her to class and play the cassette to us.

VHS didn't have much quality and rewinding was always a pain but it's all we got back then. Remember when DVD quality made our jaws drop?, And I do miss going with my family to the local video store in the mid-late 90s and picking up a cartoon or a movie to rent for the weekend. Don't want to go back to those days, but they're nice memories.

*chrisdude* · 11-03-2014, 08:25 PM

I kinda missed cassette tapes. I got my first CD player on Christmas of 1999, when I was 12. I wasn't into music very long before that. I did use tapes to record songs from the radio, for a short period. But when I got a CD player, I pretty much started dumping all my money into music, right away.

I did have the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers TV series soundtrack and Coming Out of Our Shells, though.

~~Leo656~~ · 11-03-2014, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by plastroncafe

Yes, the only one.

You slay me. You're so F'n deadpan. I love it.

*ssjup81* · 11-03-2014, 09:16 PM

Since this thread has turned into "Back in my day"....how about those Beta tapes. Remember those? lol

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Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Am I the only one who remembers putting tokens into subway stations before Metro Cards were invented?

Back in my day we didn't even have plastic cards with money on them.

Seeing as how I didn't grow up in New York, and I barely remember my visits from when I was super young, no, I don't remember tokens. I was born in New York, but my parents wanted me to grow up in Virginia. My father's from NY and my mother's from VA. They moved when I was going on 3, so my memories are very vague on subway visits. Getting down to it, it was rare we went to NYC even in the 90s...and my father preferred driving to public transportation. lol

*CyberCubed* · 11-03-2014, 09:22 PM

I don't understand the young teenage youth of today. They're raised by electronic devices and social media.

Kids today will never know the joy of walking around discovering things on our own like we did, or tripping over ourselves and getting our faces stuck in dirt.

**Jester** · 11-03-2014, 09:24 PM

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Originally Posted by CyberCubed

I don't understand the young teenage youth of today. They're raised by electronic devices and social media.

Kids today will never know the joy of walking around discovering things on our own like we did, or tripping over ourselves and getting our faces stuck in dirt.

*Cure* · 11-03-2014, 09:25 PM

Sounds like CyberCubed is just a klutz to me.

~~Leo656~~ · 11-03-2014, 09:44 PM

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Originally Posted by CyberCubed

I don't understand the young teenage youth of today. They're raised by electronic devices and social media.

Says the guy who's here like it's his job.

There is no way at all you are ever away from your computer or personal device for more than 3.7 minutes, and no greater distance than 16.25 inches. Pretty sure you're one of those cats who surfs the web while they're in the can.

Not judgin'. Just sayin'.

Hakase · 11-03-2014, 10:00 PM

I'm currently 18 and pretty much on all the mainstream social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram). I pretty much only use Facebook for the instant messaging. I use Twitter to give sarcastic replies to my friends's statuses and Instagram to post memorable days.

Teens don't really use Facebook that much since everyone has a Facebook, that includes their parents. Most of my friends pretty much use it for the instant messaging and school work. Twitter is mostly used for bitching and complaining about their life. Instagram is pretty much to post pictures of whatever. Some use it to take pictures of food, what they bought, artsy pictures, selfies, etc.

*CyberCubed* · 11-04-2014, 12:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Leo656

Says the guy who's here like it's his job.

There is no way at all you are ever away from your computer or personal device for more than 3.7 minutes, and no greater distance than 16.25 inches. Pretty sure you're one of those cats who surfs the web while they're in the can.

Not judgin'. Just sayin'.

Well I do use it when I'm bored waiting on line for something, but I'm not on it as I'm constantly walking like those spiky haired teens you see walking around.

Ugh, I really dislike those teens with the shaved heads or spiky hair like they're so "badass" or something. And they wear their chains around their necks and their black leather jackets. Most if not all of them also have a smoke in their mouth as they're going by looking down on their phones.

If this were the 80's those kids would be holding a boom box on their arms or a Sony Walkman. lol.

*pennydreadful* · 11-04-2014, 01:07 AM

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Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Ugh, I really dislike those teens with the shaved heads or spiky hair like they're so "badass" or something. And they wear their chains around their necks and their black leather jackets. Most if not all of them also have a smoke in their mouth as they're going by looking down on their phones.

What are they, some sort of punkers?

Man, I hate punkers...

**Jester** · 11-04-2014, 01:08 AM

Hakase · 11-04-2014, 01:15 AM

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Originally Posted by CyberCubed

If this were the 80's those kids would be holding a boom box on their arms or a Sony Walkman. lol.

Last year, when I was a senior in high school, there was this junior who walked around with a giant boom box on his shoulder at school blasting his music as he went to class and he looked like a big douchebag doing it.

*DarkFell* · 11-04-2014, 01:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Jester

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Meep...meep.. MEEP!!!!!

11-03-2014, 05:42 PM	#62
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chrisdude Foot Elite Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: North Carolina Posts: 2,708	I kinda missed cassette tapes. I got my first CD player on Christmas of 1999, when I was 12. I wasn't into music very long before that. I did use tapes to record songs from the radio, for a short period. But when I got a CD player, I pretty much started dumping all my money into music, right away. I did have the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers TV series soundtrack and Coming Out of Our Shells, though. __________________ PSN/Miiverse: MikeFarber

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Cure Y'all need Jesus Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: New Jersey Posts: 8,938	Sounds like CyberCubed is just a klutz to me. __________________

11-03-2014, 10:00 PM	#75
Hakase Foot Soldier Join Date: Jul 2014 Location: San Jose, CA Posts: 114	I'm currently 18 and pretty much on all the mainstream social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram). I pretty much only use Facebook for the instant messaging. I use Twitter to give sarcastic replies to my friends's statuses and Instagram to post memorable days. Teens don't really use Facebook that much since everyone has a Facebook, that includes their parents. Most of my friends pretty much use it for the instant messaging and school work. Twitter is mostly used for bitching and complaining about their life. Instagram is pretty much to post pictures of whatever. Some use it to take pictures of food, what they bought, artsy pictures, selfies, etc. __________________

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11-03-2014, 05:33 PM	#61
Wesley Mad Scientist Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Republic of Ireland Posts: 1,597	Anyone remember using cassette tapes? I used them for years until a few months ago when I switched to CDs. I also didn't know that my dreamcast could play CDs until recently (I haven't used it for sometime, though).

11-03-2014, 05:55 PM	#65
CyberCubed Overlord Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 43,872	I still remember in the early days of the internet when it took like 2 hours to download a 20 minute video. The horror.

11-03-2014, 07:58 PM	#67
Prowler Emperor Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Portugal Posts: 9,999	We've had a few cassettes when I was a kid. I remember English books always coming with a cassette, and the teacher bringing his/her big radio with her to class and play the cassette to us. VHS didn't have much quality and rewinding was always a pain but it's all we got back then. Remember when DVD quality made our jaws drop?, And I do miss going with my family to the local video store in the mid-late 90s and picking up a cartoon or a movie to rent for the weekend. Don't want to go back to those days, but they're nice memories.

11-03-2014, 09:22 PM	#71
CyberCubed Overlord Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 43,872	I don't understand the young teenage youth of today. They're raised by electronic devices and social media. Kids today will never know the joy of walking around discovering things on our own like we did, or tripping over ourselves and getting our faces stuck in dirt.