>this is modern technology
>>52430995
SUCH A PROFOUND OBSERVATION
>>52430995
Society has become degenerate. This isn't news.
>>52431020
>this is caps lock
>implying it wasn't the same shit when books were starting to get mass produced and affordable
>>52430995
replace the phones with newspapers/magazines and that's how it looked 15 years ago. Nobody wants to talk to strangers waiting for a fucking train to commute to work.
Man i hate our generattionnnnnnn
the previous generations are soooooo much better
Shut the fuck up
How dare those people be doing things on something that wasn't around when I was born. They should be reading a book or counting the specks on the ceiling those uncivilized apes.
>>52431029
NO THIS IS CAPSLOCK, YOU HIPSTER FAGGOT
>>52430995
normies man.
I didnt even had smartphone until a month ago and even now just sits.
In before a picture of people in the 60s all reading newspapers
Notice how nobody is looking at the massive ad lit up in the middle of the platform? Google wants to change this with gay shit like google glass.
>>52431054
>if I don't have a use for something, nobody does
Fuck off, Nazi
>>52431054
Music, e-mail, browsing 4chan, and the rare calls.
>>52430995
>mfw I draw tons of r34 pics on the train and nobody ever notices
Technology is great.
>>52430995
This is history.
![sala-lettura[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/m7tSfHW.jpg "sala-lettura[1].jpg")
>>52430995
>This is ancient technology
>>52431112
Also notice how motherfuckers courteously only take up enough space as they need instead of spreading all over the fucking bench.
>>52431112
sure, but let's see you defend the 22nd century when everyone is busy with their iHelmets having virtual sex.
>>52431147
you mean when they're all using google contacts and staring straight ahead?
>>52431112
That guy not reading a newspaper probably has multiple guns under his coat.
>>52431162
Looks like he's sperging out because he's sitting next to that fluid druid
>>52431147
"Waaah waaah people shouldn't be allowed to enjoy themselves... r-right guys?"
That's you. That's what you sound like.
>>52431112
>ad poster with woman wearing one piece suit
Truly disgusting times.
>>52430995
People in that picture could be having a discussion with hundreds of people from around the world rather than making small talk with the handful of people who happen to be nearby.
For instance, I'm chatting with a bunch of trap loving faggots on this Filipino water color board.
>>52431176
shut up squid.
>>52431162
kek
>>52431029
>>52431048
>NOT USING CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL
>CURRENT YEAR
>ISHYGDDT
>>52431188
Squid or kid?
>>52430995
Looks like an SBahn station in Munich.
Every day when I take the SBahn 80% of people look in to their smartphones all the time here.
It looks exactly like OPs picture.
>>52431033
This.
>The free access which many young people have to romances, novels, and plays has poisoned the mind and corrupted the morals of many a promising youth; and prevented others from improving their minds in useful knowledge.
>Enos Hitchcock, 1790
>>52431029
NOW THIS IS CAPSLOCK
I am sooooooooo sick and fucking tired of this retarded stigma that everyone looking down at a smartphone is a facebook zombie.
I noticed that some of these people are wearing business attire. And usually trains take you to a city. Maybe they're on the smartphone for business related purposes? There's 1001 ways to stay connected for business on the smartphone especially if you're in the IT business for example monitoring servers and stats.
This is about the same as looking at a workstation with a high end rendering video card and calling the owner a retarded mindless gamer.
>>52431362
>Maybe they're on the smartphone for business related purposes?
Fat chance. They need to do work at work because browsing Facebook there is frowned upon.
>>52431302
Fucking Rekt
>>52431362
>Maybe they're on the smartphone for business related purposes?
I doubt it, but what's so bad about being a facebook zombie? My mom is a facebook zombie. My brother is a facebook zombie. My sister is a facebook zombie.
The only reason I'm not is because the atmosphere on facebook is fucking toxic, so I browse 4chan instead.
In any case, it's not like anybody here does anything more important on their computers than browse facebook at least ~70% of the time.
>>52431026
4chan.org/pol
>>52431362
They are facebook zombies, idiot.
They're at a train station because they're killing time before the train arrives.
>>52431429
He's right though. Society's been on a slow decline for the past 10,000 years. Brave men used to risk their lives crossing oceans. Now society is so degenerate that we can safely journey to the moon and back in a matter of days.
>>52431407
What sets apart Facebook zombies is their need for some sort of drama in their lives. Their life is empty and stagnant, so they browse Facebook to kill time and see all of the things their slightly more successful and active friends are doing.
Past the shitposting, at least in certain boards, people at last have an intellectual discussion once in a whike. Even debating and arguing about a video game or a graphics card is better than constant passive aggressive Facebook drama about that faggot lover Jenny who supports Obama, or subconsciously making yourself more depressed on Facebook as you see everyone showing off the few positive moments in lives as if it's how every day in their shoes is.
Facebook is for old people and parents who both embrace and complain about their mundane, repetitive lives but don't or can't do anything to change it because they don't have enough money, time, or energy. People who are just technologically versed enough to know how to open the Facebook app and type it into Internet Explorer, but haven't discovered the Internet and it'd wide array of niches beyond news websites.
>>52431087
Be grateful for your Qualcomm jewish overlords. Calls are overrated.
>>52431034
This. It's definitely better than staring at a wall or the ground.
>>52431694
Thanks Amerikka!
(no, I'm serious)
>>52431548
>Technological progress is degenerate.
>Space X wants to have a colony on Mars, which is how many millions of miles away?
>>52431026
>muh D E G E N E R A T E
>>52430995
What would be different without them? Just people staying blindly to the floor, walls, out looking around at people like a weirdo.
Only difference now is that they're being productive (actually doing something they like), with the time they'd be wasting not doing anything otherwise.
Train stations aren't exactly a bar.
>>52431960
Agreed.
Boy I could have meaningless small chat with strangers (which I can still do now) or I can be entertained, be productive or communicate with people I know.
OP this site is for 18+
>all these fat losers thinking someone would talk to them if they weren't looking at their phone
wew lad
>>52430995
>we were more social before smartphones
>>52432129
>queuing for a bus that isnt even there yet
>>52430995
>>this is modern technology
This is a sheep farm
FTFY
>>52432407
>Am on smartphone now
>baaah baaaah
>>52430995
>talk to people
>take bitches numbers to fuck em later
are you really missing that oportunity??
>>52430995
implying talking to some random loosers is a worthy time investment
it's pretty much an unwritten rule that when someone starts a conversation with you on the street that they want something from you
>>52432154
You've never actually used public transport, have you?
>>52432154
>queuing
no, they just want to a good angle to see the buses coming and also be visible.
>>52430995
That's not nearly the whole problem, OP.
Thing is when most of those people get home or arrive at work, they also go back to staring at a screen most of the time, whether it's tv or PC.
Which means most of our daily lives is spent staring at screens, consuming digital content.
It's even bleaker if you look at it from an outside perspective. All those commuters sitting in an enclosure made out of concrete, checking out the screens on their devices, each concerned about their own bubble.
>>52434183
>yfw Aliums come and they deduce that monitors and PCs were ruling man in 2016.
>>52431548
Yes, everybody a few thousand years ago just flocked to the next frontier like lemmings off a cliff.
>>52434077
Back in the 80's it wasn't like that, I became friends with a guy that asked me if I know hot to get to pen station, I was going in that direction anyway, so we walked and talked for 15 min, later on he invited me to work for him, I did for couple years, we took apart he got into bigger business I went to collage etc.
5 years later he called and it turns out he lives near my current home, so we drink a beer every other day at the pub.
What you mean is, if the guy is non white or/and is poor looking.
>>52431112
>wearing a hat indoors
Do Americans seriously do this?
>>52434077
>>implying talking to some random loosers is a worthy time investment
lmao it definitely is one of the best things about my average day chat up random people
its honestly fun
I once ended up drinking with https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Tomas_Johansson_(wrestler) this dude in Stockholm year or two back
>>52434072
They might be chatting up "bitches" on tinder, you never know.
>>52434417
Actually, yes, on the table too. In church also.
I am from Italy and the first time I went to Boston I realized that no one puts his Red Sox cap off, ever. It was summer and there was sun, outside I understand that the sun goes into your eyes but we were in a restaurant, eating and the guy kept his hat on at all times.
I took off mine, just because its not really comfy to eat with it. But tbqh later on I got used to it, I didn't put my hat on either, it was easier at end of the day. And if this is t he norm, fuck it I don't care.
Americans have shit taste in fashion, good thing there is only good brands in their shops and magazines, cause otherwise Turkmenistan will be more fashionable then them.
>>52431548
You're a fucking idiot
If everyone took acid, the scene would be much more interesting.
>>52430995
I don't get why everyone's upset about this. Instead of people staring off into space or their reading material. They're now looking at phones. I hate it when people pretend that everyone used to be social butterflies.
>>52431112
they have much better posture tho
>>52434853
Most of the don't read more than 140 characters of Twitter or the equivalent at a time.
>>52431662
Well said. However, I wouldn't say its just old people, but normies in general.
>>52434767
Hurt your feelings?
>>52432129
They may be Finns.
There is literally nothing wrong with keeping to yourself in public when waiting for transport or whatever.
It's only a problem when you're actually with someone and you're choosing the phone over them.
It's fucking pathetic to see a couple out to a cafe that are both using their phones the whole time.
I'm no phone nazi, I get that people may need to check a message no big deal but why on earth would you pay for an experience with your bf/gf and then ignore them?
>>52435355
It's like that in Scandinavia too.
I can't imagine actually talking to strangers while waiting.
>>52434531
>only good brands in their shops and magazines
You're so wrong it hurts.
>>52435438
just your dirty mouth, people don't stand that far apart anywhere else
think back to 2006, if you were even alive then. train stations weren't a bustling trading post for the up-and-coming thinkers of the day to share ideas and theories. they were the same but with people staring at the ground or at some celeb gossip magazine, trying not to make eye contact and waiting for steve jobs to invent the iphone.
>>>/wronggeneration/
>>52435479
I miss the 80s when people would break-dance while waiting for the train.
Such a sense of community.
;_;
>>52435459
Have you ever been to Norway or Sweden?
>>52435447
XD ur wrong because I say so XDDDDD
>>52430995
Because it's better to have pointless conversation with people you couldn't care less about
>>52435493
>or Sweden?
Nonsense, last time I was there I saw a large crowd of men practically gang-hugging a woman at a bus station.
>>52430995
Upvoted, have some reddit gold
>>52431729
>Implying you don't think while staring at something
Must suck to be so desperate to be noticed you get pissed off at people having fun on their phones.
>>52435660
>news about world war 2
vs
>facebook and instagram
you're retarded
>>52435447
You've never been in east Europe or any of the post commie blocks, so you don't know.
Therefore I am right, you are wrong.
>>52430995
Yes, so what? What would you have them rather do. Talk to one another? Never gonna happen, technology or not.
>>52437058
>only legible article heading is about cashiers
>cashiers of all things
Fuck off
>>52437058
that picture is from 1946.
http://www.chicagonow.com/cta-tattler/2012/05/riding-the-new-york-city-subway-with-stanley-kubrick-in-1946/#image/1
>>52437189
No black and white photography only existed from 1942 to 1945
>>52430995
What would you rather them do, just blankly stare at the wall and floor?
>>52431729
But they're not aware of their surroundings
>>52434104
I use it everyday since 5years and i never queued at the station
Your arguement is invaild
>>52431429
>MUH POL BOOGEYMONS
Dumblr please leave.
>>52434417
Is the interior of a vehicle now considered "indoors?"
>>52435438
>It's like that in Scandinavia too.
>I can't imagine actually talking to strangers while waiting.
No, it isn't. At least not in Stavanger. Don't be an autist, and don't talk to the mudslimes. You'll have a good ole time.
>believed the too much technology is disconnecting us
>got rid of facebook & smartphone, only reachable by email
>now I have no friends
>>52435587
>Nonsense, last time I was there I saw a large crowd of men practically gang-hugging a woman at a bus station.
Sides ... gassed.
>>52439744
>muh tumblr boogeyman
>I swear we're not the same as them, here's a drawing with no argument that proves it!
>>52435257
No, your stupidity bothers me. Go kill yourself before your idiotic views spread.
>>52431046
You sound like one of the faggots in that picture, good job you little bitch.
>>52439824
I'm not saying you are from dumblr, I'm saying you should fucking go to dumblr.
>>52440284
He was saying he should fucking go to /pol/. What's the difference?
>>52431256
Yes, I think this is munich :)
>>52430995
What do you think people used to do when they had to wait for the fucking train? They read magazines and newspapers.
Nothing's changed about human nature, people need something to keep them occupied while they wait, no one likes boredom.
