SHiTEs VS Millenials and technology

Not that they'd own cell phones to begin with. FUCK DIGITAL!

I was surprised by the number of them that brag about using flip phones.

Da fuck?

I was surprised by the number of them that brag about using flip phones.

Da fuck?

Yep, so sad. The whole phone/social media obsessiveness is totally pathetic.

I understand why some concertgoers will appreciate this, but my phone is too integral a part of my existence for me to have it locked down like that for a few hours. Having to wander to a special area to use it is just too onerous.

Plus, rather than being for the stated reason of improving the concert experience, i suspect the real reason is artists who are overly sensitive about fans taking pics and videos that they think then costs them money. I'm not sympathetic to that.

So no thank you, won't be happening to me.

I applaud the locking of those annoying contrivances. They are nowhere near as necessary as people wish us to believe and have gotten to be ubiquitous to my great displeasure. It has gotten almost impossible to find public venues of any kind in which they are not inflicted on those of us who are not swayed by their advertising BS. I was just thinking that if I owned my own restaurant they would be banned and anyone who tried whipping them out would automatically be kicked out with their bill also automatically giving a 20% tip to the waiter, regardless of how much food was left on the plate. They would be told of the policy beforehand and would have to agree to abide by it.

No, I am not joking. I hate those damn phones. They are all to often used with no sense of how they are inflicted upon those around the user. Phone ettiquette simply doesn't exist any more and most people don't care. I'm not most people.

I just will skip a lot more shows if this becomes the norm. No biggie, there are very few living acts I am interested in seeing that I have not already seen.

Someone will get sick or die in a medical emergency because of this tactic (because they couldn't make an emergency call or couldn't make it as quickly as they needed to) and someone with a great lawyer will sue the venue and the performer and make a whole lot of money! :laugh:

Then these performers will re-think this idea very quickly once they realize it sets them up for being responsible for restricting someone from getting medical help in an emergency situation.

Before the 21st century, people didn't get blown away at concerts by nutjobs armed with bumpstock weapons, pressure cooker bombs, etc.

Is your personal phone really going to make a difference to you or the venue as a whole in that situation? Once someone’s already shooting at you?

It is going to make all the difference in the world for your loved ones to hear from you (hopefully) after a tragedy or any unexplained event that happens. Obviously, the lone wolf type who doesn't care about anyone else in this world besides himself won't appreciate that.

Maybe someone can explain to me how it is perfectly acceptable to stand up and block the view of everyone behind you during a concert, but if you should happen to use your phone while sitting down quietly, you're the bad guy?

i'll take paranoid for 200, Alex.

That's fine. I'm sure if I told you 1o years ago that somebody would murder 57 people at a country music festival, you would scoff at the possibility of that.

Just another tiny little erosion of freedom and personal liberty as we hurtle further down the slippery slope we're already on.

(I'm not a conspiracy guy, but this is troubling purely from a civil liberties point of view).

I find the ban on cell phones in a public place, to be something that might happen in an authoritarian nation, with a dictator form of government. I am surprised that so many people applaud it.

Censorship jack - why do you want to control us!

How will the concertgoers know when a nuclear missile is incoming?

Too many people want to take away liberties these days. It needs to be resisted. That is my point of view, as a Political Science major in college, and an attorney who found Constitutional Law to be the most interesting class at law school.

So why limit to this to Jack White concerts? Let's ban cell phones everywhere that they could possibly offend someone. Restaurants, bars, schools, public transportation, sports events, church, the mall, etc. Let's make cell phones the new smoking and outlaw it everywhere except inside your own home. Let's teach people what manners are. If they don't like it, the solution is to stay home.

As I stated before, I have had several concerts experiences ruined by tall, obnoxious fans that choose to stand up in front of my seat for the entire concert. That blocks your view more than 20 cell phones in the air. Is Jack White going to go be an usher and tell people to sit down? I don't believe he is that concerned about fans not being able to see; his ego doesn't like the idea that people might not be staring at him for 2 hours straight in rapt admiration.

Somehow people manage to survive 22 dates of Kate Bush 2014 series of concerts called Before The Dawn without being allowed to use their cell phones.

The problem is that everyone's freedom has been eroding slowly but steadily over the past decades and so now, being treated like a child at a concert in which they have paid serious money to attend seems normal to them.

I am 61 and have been living a very happy active life in the world.

In the past five years I have spent time with many different groups of people from different walks of life, racial and ethic backgrounds, and age ranges. None of these groups have anywhere near the degree of concern and negativity toward technology as the members of this board. This is a unique group in many ways.

I'm not against prohibiting recording devices, but something about this sounds illegal or just plain wrong. Suppose there was an emergency/crime? There has to be a better way.

Sorry, but cell phones have reduced otherwise rational humans to the intellectual and moral status of a five year old, and since they can't play nicely with their toys, we're going to have to take them away.

I went to a 2Cellos concert recently and I thought it odd they seemed to encourage filming.

Methinks you guys are reacting emotionally to those who are put-off by people with phones. You are seeing the ideal, while I am looking at the real world. I see people having the inability to get their phones unlocked, forgetting to get them unlocked, theft, and the inability to react to emergencies. The company who created the technology is just trying to make money. Of course they aren't going to mention the downsides of it.

I haven't read this thread but I take it that we're all in agreement.

Nope. Read the thread.

If you ask the average person who Jack White is, they either wouldn't have a clue, or they would think of the actor Jack White from Chico and the Man:

What year do you think it is?

P.S. That guy's name is Jack Albertson.

The only time I really need to take my phone out at a show is if an auction is ending for some rare vinyl I really want and I need to make a bid.