just a thought.
2006-06-27 09:25:57 · 18 answers · asked by savio 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
ipod didn't create it. people choose to alienate themselves. only now, they can do it with a catchy soundtrack.
2006-06-27 09:27:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ummm... let me think about that for a minute...If you are going to start banning the ipod for creating social alienation, then you need to ban everything that everyone can not afford. That is not possible at all. The ipod did not create social alientation--social alienation was here long before the ipod.
2006-06-27 09:49:38 · answer #2 · answered by la_diablita_1999 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I want the whole world to have iPods that way I can shout obscenities at them and they won't hear me. Aren't iPods made by slave labor? It's like "f-you! I don't care if you are 5-years old and live in a hut; I need to listen to my new Interpol album while I have a $5 coffee working on research papers about the "evils" of capitalism on my Laptop". If that isn't social alienation, I don't know what is.
2006-06-27 09:33:11 · answer #3 · answered by .... 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What, there weren't social wallflowers before the iPod? Of course there were. Nowadays, people simply have more venues to be anti-social.
2006-06-27 09:28:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ha! I have an MP3 player and I am anything but socially alienated...
2006-06-27 09:30:31 · answer #5 · answered by Oarchimondeo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, there were personal music players before the ipod.
Maybe we should ban tv for the same reason, or maybe houses for keeping people from living on a big floor together.
Just because someone doesn't want to talk to you on the bus doesn't mean their choices are wrong.
2006-06-27 09:27:33 · answer #6 · answered by QuestionWyrm 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, but parents should be beaten for not teaching their children to have manners so when they grow up they don't walk around grocery stores, malls and all variety of public places with cell phones and music players stuck to their ears.
2006-06-27 09:34:45 · answer #7 · answered by Robert B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did iPod create it? I think it all started with the radio IMO.
2006-06-27 09:27:08 · answer #8 · answered by jonlawson 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hahahahaha
I was walking around listening to Stevie Wonder on AM radio from my tiny transistor radio (how science fiction) with my ultragroovy white earplugs in 1972 !!
2006-06-27 09:30:05 · answer #9 · answered by sam21462 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why would the cell phone not be included in your proposed ban?
2006-06-27 09:28:01 · answer #10 · answered by DannyK 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋