I have my phone on all the time, regardless of if I am on vacation or not. When I take a vacation and I have spare time, I work - sometimes billable, sometimes not. Vacation for me doesn't equate to switch off the laptop.
I spend a lot of time glued to my laptop. When I am not at my laptop, I browse and read mails on my phone. I generally reply to the mails as soon as I get them.
I like it this way - this is a worthy investment of my time. What I do with my personal time is totally my prerogative. I don't see why people feel the need to preach around their lifestyles with silly music playing in the background. And seriously, the obsession with FB bashing is sickening. Don't like it, don't use it. How hard is that?
I am not an outgoing type, and without FB, I would have lost touch with a lot of friends and acquaintances. I don't engage in a regular conversation with many people, but I do catch them once in a while. There are other mediums for communication, but FB is all inclusive for my circle - everyone I know is on FB.
If you don't like being connected, switch off your phone - that's not rocket science. If you feel one shouldn't work more than 8 hours a day, that again is up to you. But why do you feel the need to preach it in a condescending, all-knowing tone.
I'm not going to defend the tone, or facebook bashing, or anything like that. I will say, I enjoyed that site a great deal.
I feel like I'm often on a slippery slope toward easy, short, quick and cheap entertainment. Sometimes I'll go to my computer not for any particular reason, just because I want something to do. I should be going to my computer to accomplish something I want, and if I want to relax I shouldn't do it reading blog posts. From time to time, I need to (yet again) jolt myself off the short attention span path and remind myself that I have agency. Then I'm alright for awhile longer.
I think its this tendency in people which makes sites like facebook so popular. I think this is what caused reddit to drift from an interesting discussion forum to a repository of memes and cat pictures.
I suspect a lot of the facebook bashing you see on hackernews isn't because we hate facebook, but because hate using a site like facebook as a crutch to procrastinate doing anything actually useful.
The tone is likely a reaction to the pressure that has been placed for so long on people to work more. Forget the amount of pressure bosses place on their people to work more. Colleagues, friends, and relatives all do the same. When they don't see you working a lot, they project an idea that you're lazy.
At least that has been my observation of the general mindset at least over the last 30 years.
You're right about the tone here being misjudged, but I don't think the effort is completely indefensible. It can be difficult to make qualitative choices about things that have become omnipresent, a perceived necessity. Adolescents who were born into notification culture in particular may find "don't like it, don't use it" harder than those of us who recall life pre-smartphone. Clearly many of us relish our connectedness, but there is some value to taking a moment to mull over the inherent tradeoffs. Definitely a few wrong notes here, but I liked the intention.
I spend a lot of time glued to my laptop. When I am not at my laptop, I browse and read mails on my phone. I generally reply to the mails as soon as I get them.
I like it this way - this is a worthy investment of my time. What I do with my personal time is totally my prerogative. I don't see why people feel the need to preach around their lifestyles with silly music playing in the background. And seriously, the obsession with FB bashing is sickening. Don't like it, don't use it. How hard is that?
I am not an outgoing type, and without FB, I would have lost touch with a lot of friends and acquaintances. I don't engage in a regular conversation with many people, but I do catch them once in a while. There are other mediums for communication, but FB is all inclusive for my circle - everyone I know is on FB.
If you don't like being connected, switch off your phone - that's not rocket science. If you feel one shouldn't work more than 8 hours a day, that again is up to you. But why do you feel the need to preach it in a condescending, all-knowing tone.