(02-04-2021, 07:30 PM)jagibelieve Wrote:

(02-04-2021, 07:03 PM)Jags Wrote: I’ve just never had an interest in being on social media.  I’ve got a Twitter account and that’s it.  I’ve never tweeted.  I just follow the sports journalists.  Mainly for FA updates since I was in the hospital during free agency for 3 days while my kid was being born.  Had one hand on my phone, the other under the wife’s hoohaa.  Occasionally looking away from my phone to see if there was a baby in the other.  Those three days were the opening of FA.  So don’t judge.  Besides, those 3 days in the hospital were the best and most expensive vacation I’ve ever taken.

That's part of the problem the thing..  Everyone has their "hand on the phone" no matter what.  People's phones have basically become an "extension" of themselves.  I'm not judging you, but what is more important.  The birth of your child or the latest FA acquisition in the NFL?

When I was in the Navy if you went out to a "smoking area" people were talking, joking and communicating with each other.  When I walk by the "smoking area" at my job today there will be 10-15 military members all staring down at their phones in their own little space.  The only time you see anyone interact is to show someone else what they have on their phone (I suspect a youtube video, a tweet from a twit or something on facebook/instagram).

I've seen it around people and my friends.  We can be having a conversation about something and if you use the "magic words" and say "I wonder if", instantly everyone is looking it up to see what Google or Wikapedia tells them.

Technology/social media is evil.

I’ll be honest, I only read the first paragraph.    But whoah!!!!  If anyone literally did what I said... they’re probably pieces of [BLEEP].  I pride myself on not being one.  If you haven’t learned, there’s truth in everything I post.  But not everything I post is 100% truth.  The baby was born during FA.  That’s true.  I downloaded and kept an eye on the acquisitions, that’s true.  But did I actually put my offspring second to some dip [BLEEP] [BLEEP] team that can’t win a [BLEEP] game??  C’mon now.  But I really enjoyed staying in the “suit” they provided us and keeping tabs on the FA acquisitions in the night/slow times.  


Good grief.  I guess I need to shove a stick up my [BLEEP] and be 100% serious around here.  My phone could be put in a wood chipper and I’d probably be happy.  He’ll, I’m on this board for 1 reason, get Jaguar info and not be serious.

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