Talk About Tennis 2.0

Cuckoo4Coco wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 1:22 pm

Deuce wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 5:38 am

Cuckoo4Coco wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 4:41 am I totally agree with you. When I text though with my friends it is to make really small silly messages to each other. We don't really talk about important stuff over texts. If we have to talk about something important like homework or something like that we will make a phone call.

The problem is that many, many people (I'd say most) use text messaging (or whatsapp, instagram, twitter, facebook, etc.) as their absolute primary mode of communication.
But it's not communication - it's just gossip.
With all due respect to homework, when I say profound, meaningful, and/or serious communication, I mean talking about LIFE - hopes and fears, experiences, relationships, etc. People used to actually communicate and share deep feelings. Now, it's pretty much all superficial fluff and nonsense.

A lot of people are even afraid to talk on the phone today - because talking directly with someone requires immediate response - and, because of E mail and text messages and 'social media', people are so accustomed today to rehearse their responses before 'sending' them that they're like a deer in the headlights when they have to actually speak with someone directly in real time.

And don't get me started about the importance that people (of all ages!) put on the number of 'likes', 'views', 'followers', etc. they have, as they try to improve their 'social status'. It's all about quantity over quality. And it's all so incredibly hollow and superficial.

Once again I agree with you and I think I learned the value of phones and Social Media and even though I still have it in my hand a lot and am checking tennis scores all the time, listen to music on it and texting my friends stupid things. I know when enough is enough or I know when mom says to put it down.

As a teen I don't know what I would really consider as meaningful conversation with my friends. Would that be talking about boys and relationships and stuff like that because for adults that wouldn't be very meaningful. As a teen I don't spend a lot of my time chatting on the phone about world issues. Yes I have talked about school shootings and stuff like that before with them and that stuff is important and I am also really big on the environment so sometimes that stuff comes up , but most of the time even when we talk we talk about movies, tv shows, or music, boys, school stuff and other stuff like that.

Social Media though is something that I do not follow much and if I do my mom filters a lot of it for me even with me being 16 years old. I had a friend who was bullied badly on FB and that really turned me off to Social Media.

The last thing you spoke of is so true and something that just adds to the whole aspect of I am better than you mentality. It comes down to a popularity contest really. When I had FB what really was weird to me is there were kids at my school who I really didn't know would send me friend requests. I was like why are they sending me a friend request when we are not friends in person at school? It was basically just to get as many friends as they could even though they were not really friends. It is pretty stupid. I am no longer on FB after my friend was bullied and I can really live without it. The likes I really don't mind as much because most people are liking the content of what someone is writing. I guess some people just like a post because it is the person who writes it , but most people and I think like with the system that is on here from what I have seen like what is posted and it doesn't matter who posts it. That to me is perfectly okay.

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 13, 2022 2:34 pm Ok. Good that I did read that this was the Music Topic because my initial reaction was:
This is a psychoanalytical diagnosis (Complete mess)
About herself (Me, Myself & I)
And Cuckoo is asking for help (Take my hand).

THEN I saw that these are names of songs.
I need to stop reading this forum before my breakfast kicks in...
(Will check them out )

mmmm8 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 11:42 am To the "old man yells at cloud" crowd among us - they're still making music album art and some covers have been fantastic!

For a tennis-related example, I have no idea what his music sounds like, but I thought Naomi Osaka's (ex?)boyfriend's album cover from earlier this year was pretty cool:



Here's a list ranking for the best covers from last year: https://www.thisisdig.com/feature/best- ... vers-2021/

Also, vinyl's having a comeback and last year production companies actually ran out of records and equipment because of high deman

mmmm8 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 11:42 am To the "old man yells at cloud" crowd among us - they're still making music album art and some covers have been fantastic!

For a tennis-related example, I have no idea what his music sounds like, but I thought Naomi Osaka's (ex?)boyfriend's album cover from earlier this year was pretty cool:

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mmmm8 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 11:42 am To the "old man yells at cloud" crowd among us - they're still making music album art and some covers have been fantastic!

For a tennis-related example, I have no idea what his music sounds like, but I thought Naomi Osaka's (ex?)boyfriend's album cover from earlier this year was pretty cool:



Here's a list ranking for the best covers from last year: https://www.thisisdig.com/feature/best- ... vers-2021/

Also, vinyl's having a comeback and last year production companies actually ran out of records and equipment because of high deman

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 2:25 pm

mmmm8 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 11:42 am To the "old man yells at cloud" crowd among us - they're still making music album art and some covers have been fantastic!

For a tennis-related example, I have no idea what his music sounds like, but I thought Naomi Osaka's (ex?)boyfriend's album cover from earlier this year was pretty cool:

...

Wait, wait. I thought that was only me. Are you implying there are there other antediluvian members? Let me get my notebook so I can write down their phone numbers...