[quote=spdrun]millennial: my smart phone is either off or in flight mode most of the time unless I’m on call or working.

There’s also a big difference between a camera that’s sitting on a shelf facing up as the phone charges and one facing the front of a TV with a clear view of the room. The latter needs an icepick through it. Or at least some black tape.[/quote]

I see, so in terms of privacy you just mean being able to literally watch you while you stroll around your living room. Well everyone has different degrees of tolerability. Just to be clear though, my point is that privacy is a pretty subjective term and the degree of seclusion associated is significantly less than it was 5 years ago and will be significantly less in another year. Personally, I don’t think it’s a good thing, but it is what it is and we just need to accept it and move on.

[quote=spdrun]I wasn’t speaking to interaction as much as non-interaction. Interaction through online forums can be great. The problem is people who use delivery of everything to AVOID interaction.[/quote] Well like anything there are always positives and negatives. My point is that “real interaction” happens everywhere; online and otherwise. In terms of using the internet to AVOID interaction (introverts/antisocial people/hermits), well you can see it as a negative, or a positive. I would say the majority (>80%) of people buy stuff online cause it’s convenient, including me. I hate going to the malls to price compare and have to deal with coupons and biannual sales and lines and parking; it really is a big pain in the ass. I agree that there may be some people that do it to avoid interaction (such as the alcoholic horder), but I think those people would be the same way regardless. What I’m trying to say is that I don’t think that technology creates those people. At the very least, it avoids having the alcoholic from having to drive to get his booze, or me having to deal with him.