In this week’s Time Magazine JOEL STEIN writes that people are wasting a lot of time. They should really leave that to the professionals.
He says about 20% of the 31,000 volunteer Wikipedia contributors spend more than three hours a day editing entries.
People answer surveys on pop-up ads, phone calls and e-mail. – – – –
He points out that before the Internet came along, most people rarely wrote anything at all for pleasure or intellectual satisfaction after graduating from high school or college. – – – –
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I've lived in Australia since 1959 together with my husband Peter. We have four children, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. I started blogging because I wanted to publish some of my childhood memories. I am blogging now also some of my other memories. I like to publish some photos too as well as a little bit of a diary from the present time. Occasionally I publish a story with a bit of fiction in it. Peter, my husband, is publishing some of his stories under berlioz1935.wordpress.com
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So true. To prove your point, all I have to do is go out my house and observe how people seemed glued to their phones like zombies when so much could be done. So many needing to be helped. So much to learn and explore first hand that Google can’t give or answer. Thanks for the recent visit.
Screens everywhere? Do you mean, Noeleen, they do not want to tell us the truth?
By the way last night we saw on TV “Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries” again which is set in Melbourne around 1929 and after this there was “Serangoon Road” which is set in Singapore probably also in the 1920s. Singapore looked so very different then! Things have changed a lot over the years, but maybe only on the surface.
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So true. To prove your point, all I have to do is go out my house and observe how people seemed glued to their phones like zombies when so much could be done. So many needing to be helped. So much to learn and explore first hand that Google can’t give or answer. Thanks for the recent visit.
Interesting article, Aunty Uta. Really enjoyed that. Very thought provoking.
Screens, screens everywhere.
Screens everywhere? Do you mean, Noeleen, they do not want to tell us the truth?
By the way last night we saw on TV “Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries” again which is set in Melbourne around 1929 and after this there was “Serangoon Road” which is set in Singapore probably also in the 1920s. Singapore looked so very different then! Things have changed a lot over the years, but maybe only on the surface.