Has technology managed to make you feel happier?

Has technology managed to make you feel happier?

In a broad sense, yes.

Listening to music counts I guess. But otherwise no, I honestly can't think of a time technology made me happier.

I mean sure, I used to be a gamerfag big time, and I suppose that made me happy. But it wasn't real happiness. When I look back on all the time I spent playing games it fills me with regret.

I used to play the guitar a whole lot. Not discussed much around here but I'd argue it's relevant. But that made me sad too because I hit a wall with it and haven't touched it since.

I'm just not a happy person in general though, so I'm biased. I'm good at faking it.

Damn this hits close. How old are you?

28

I'm Technology is literally the reason of my current career. If you're studying engineering or CS or any STEM field, how can technology not have made you feel happier?

Unless, of course, you were forced into STEM by an abusive father when all you wanted to do was grant the world your gift of dance. But that's the only valid reason, methinks.

In the end porn and video games don't make me happier, so no.

No. Neither has it made me unhappier.

I met my girlfriend on tinder so I'd say yes

At first it was great as a child it made me forget that I had no friends or talked much to anyone in my family.

Now, its making me unhappy.

Most video games of today care about graphics and not "story".

The interent was made for sharing and communicating with other, but mainly used for porn and other stuff.

Every second somewhere in the world a girl takes a snap of herself using a dog gilter.

Women and men are getting catfished online.

Women phootshop themselves to look physically better.

This world is doomed.

To be free from the curse of "technology" I must live in solitude without the use of it.

No, but I would be even unhappier if it were taken away from me since I've grown so used to and even dependant on it.

yes. cant wait to get my new Le Max 2 phone tomorrow i've been using a shitty fucking HTC Desire C for a whole week and i wanna kms

but smart phones are fucking up our brains, short term memory attention span etc

bump

Im 18, diagnosed depression and bored with videogames.
I fill my time playing guitar and browsing the internet now. Am I a copy of your past self? Got any advice for me?

This was going to be my answer. You'd only feel this way if you're the typical angry cs dropout working some meme job.

>muh 80s ironic shit lang
>muh 90s shit
>why will nobody hire me?
>...tech only makes u feel bad... fuck tech...

it's only your failure that you really hate

I suppose you are, except that I've not been diagnosed with anything. I should probably go see my doctor, but I'd just feel like I'm moaning.

Advice? I dunno... don't kill yourself, I guess? Take the highs with the lows and don't think too much. Thinking is bad.

>It's only your failure that you really hate
>mfw

>Thinking is bad.
amen

Nah, user with a software job here. It's still shit. I wish I was writing in Common Lisp so I could hot load changes without writing any scaffolding for it.

Yes. Aside from being the most useful thing in society, wanting to know and create more made life more bearable.
t-thanks, Sup Forums

Gloriously happy about tech throughout my life, from jet engines to motorcycles, welding, machining. DIY of all kinds, and sufficient fucking with computers that I'm comfortable with Linux, Windows, troubleshooting, repair, and working on simple CNC machine tools.

Tech is power. If tech doesn't make you happy, YOU made the CHOICES to be unhappy. I love information and knowledge.

I don't gayme, because gayming is an attempt to hide from doing useful things. Living a lie is hollow so I don't do that. Wanting to live a lie is stupid so I don't do that.

Dissect this:

> Now, its making me unhappy.

No, your CHOICE of reaction is making you unhappy.

>Most video games of today care about graphics and not "story".

Stop playing those which do not appeal to you. Stop needing gaymes at all.

>The interent was made for sharing and communicating with other, but mainly used for porn and other stuff.

Any effect on YOU is voluntary because the internet offers choices. Stop choosing badly and don't pretend the choices of others affect you enough to matter IRL. Remember IRL?

>Every second somewhere in the world a girl takes a snap of herself using a dog gilter.

That doesn't concern me. If you CHOOSE to have it concern you, you should feel WORSE then that dumb bitch for having concerns about trifles.
Study Zen. You need it. You think like a child or an American.

>Women and men are getting catfished online.

Not your fucking concern, and a trifle compared to real problems, which you would understand if you bothered to learn perspective.

>Women phootshop themselves to look physically better.

Not your problem. At all.

>This world is doomed.

Poor babby confuses entropy and transience of all things with "doom". The wisdom of history and all philosophers lies at your fingertips. Use it you dumb cunt.

>To be free from the curse of "technology" I must live in solitude without the use of it.

You cannot be freed from the curse of yourself. Tech has zero curse.

meaningful work is the start since you get cash to buy a house and car. then by the time you're 30 and having worked at proper places you will have enough to start your own business. Working forever is perfectly fine at comfy office jobs especially programmer since you can work remotely.

it may not be perfect but your alternative as a meme cs dropout is forever being first level IT and thinking you're smarter than everyone else. Lisp is dangerous because it's on the road to 80s autism dropout shit. indeed.com agrees with me.

Well, I haven't finished my degree yet, so it's still a possibility. I'd heed your warning, but I'm too busy reading about BBS and watching anime.

I agree with this post completely. If you think modern tech is shit, you're probably a total fucking loser. Wake up already and see how easy it is to make money with any form of computers with business versus 10 years ago where you'd have to invent everything yourself. Businesses literally pay you to set up fucking hosts now, and at that point you're basically getting yourself a free long term client. Yes they really are this clueless. Or not, go to r9k and keep making retro shit threads and leave it all for me

Potato

More at ease rather than happier. My mental state is more stable because of my knowledge obtained from online.

You're a young adult. All of your needs were catered to for your entire life, except your emotional ones. You were treated more like a pet than a person. Your parents failed you by not knowing HOW to parent, thinking that if you buy all the nice things and do nice things and do everything for their kids, they're sure to turn out alright. Wrong.

You have been emotionally neglected, your father was as absent as your mother but your mother is so weak such that she could not tame you. She could not make you do things without a logical reason. Simple things that come to others naturally.

You need to open your mind. Foster a strong curiosity in the world we live in. See the world around you not as your prison, but your playground. But how can you do this with no real friends? Being unable to feel anything real? You know your emotions are fake, but they still feel real to you despite you being dead inside.

Your brain has been wired from the start to consume consume consume. Not create. This is bad, because creating allows us to see deeper into ourselves and obtain a greater understanding of ourselves, others, and the nature of reality. Now what do you create? Art? Music? No. You create yourself.

How do you create yourself? Well, first analyse your thought patterns. Perhaps you have OCD. You would try different things when you feel a compulsion. Experiment. See how doing different things make your brain react. Then you apply your knowledge to create a system to negate that compulsion. You apply psychology and social engineering to yourself to create something greater. This applies to social skills too, so you can learn how to interact with everyone in society and be seen as just another person like them.

Make the world your own sandbox game, other people's minds just machines to you. Learn from every experience. Don't let external stimuli change your emotional state. You can be whatever you want, if you know how.

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I wouldn't have made my best friend without technology.

I really hope that some of you aren't dumb enough to think that women will make you happy.

No. I honestly wish microtechnology was illegal except for things like medical science and national defense.