What?

I once loved bears, but then Stephen Colbert taught me the truth.

Edit: What?

Um, do we need to have something to be curmudgeony about? Is it a requirement for further evolution or something?

Just trying to save the thread from uselesness.

EDIT AFTER YOUR EDIT: I don't care about social networks, so I'm there with you saying it's waste of time. But it doesn't piss me off or anything, it's simply one of those things that don't exist in my personal world.

I love social networking stuff ye crotchety old bastids.

I guess that makes me part of the younger generation. So, my response is, "You're old and you don't get it. Quit harshin' our vibe, man." Having said that, I never signed up for MySpace. I hated everyone's crappy pages and unlike many friends on Facebook I keep my profile clean of all the stupid apps and have my privacy settings tuned.

The GWJer demographics thread shows that terms like "our generation" are a bit tricky on this site.

Personally, I think Facebook is one of the best tools ever for the distribution of photos taken at the "embarrassingly drunk" stage of a party, but that's just me. I don't really have time for all hte little applications in it though.

At the ripe old age of 25, I'd say the main thing I'm curmudgeonly about is the death of spelling, grammar, and proper words. I know a few younger people who will use text-speak in emails. I don't know why, but I find it infuriating. Damn punk kids.

When they got to that point in the pod cast, I nearly screamed,"Saggy, baggy jeans that hang around the knees."

When is this idiotic trend going to go away?

Oh, and definitely 24/7 texting.

I'm only 25 and this is absolutely infuriating in the right situations. Or the wrong ones I guess, depending on how you look at it.

There's a guy at work that won't put his goddamn phone down. I watched a coworker threaten said phone with a hammer one night if it left his pocket before he clocked out at the end of our shift.

When I was a kid we used walkie talkies from Radio Shack! And we liked it!

Another vote for texting. Don't people realise how inefficient timewise that is? Same dual analog bah humbug to the kids who can text faster than they type too.

We tied notes to pterodactyls' legs.

My father mentions this on occasion. He sits in his board room meetings at work and when they end and their regional boss or whoever lets them know dates for specific things he opens up his appointment book and writes it down. Usually he's closed his appointment book and walked out the door whole minutes before all the people with PDA's have even gotten halfway done pecking with their stylus'.

My comment at the time was that those people clearly don't really know how to use their PDA's, but that I don't necessarily disagree with him. I do think texting is a massive waste of time and extra money on one's cellphone bill though.

I have a friend who has his cell phone set to speaker 100% of the time. I don't want to f*cking hear either end of your conversation, let alone both ends!

As to texting, my girlfriend's younger sister (18) is a textaholic. After receiving their first cell phone bill he calculated that with 8 hours per night given to sleeping, she had to send a text message once every 18 waking minutes for the entirety of the month (thankfully he had the unlimited texting plan).

Edit: I just noticed that if you quote someone who used an expletive, you get to read the expletive they used (the same applies to editing a post in which you used and expletive).

That's lightweight. My former boss and I computed that one of his boys, with allowances for specific daily events, sleep and school time, averaged a text message every 23 seconds. I wish I was making that up.