Posted on 05/17/2005 2:57:06 PM PDT by ambrose
Posted on Tue, May. 17, 2005
Not everybody loves iPods
By JASMINE JOHNSON
KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS
Most teenagers know the latest music craze is the iPod. And most teenagers, it seems, have them. I don't. And I don't care.
This creepy "iPod obsession" has gone too far. Here are five reasons why I hate iPods:
1. They cause addiction. Warning: When you're at school and you daydream about getting home to download a new song on your iPod, you are, in fact, addicted to it.
2. iPod crazies become iPod hermits. If people give up hanging out with friends to play with or listen to their iPod, they're obsessed, and it's a sign they need to get out more. Obsession is not good. In fact, it's actually quite weird and slightly psychotic.
3. Imaginary iPod friends. When a person names the iPod and starts referring to it by that name, it's time to switch to the radio for a while. At least we all know there are real DJs on the other end of the box.
4. iPod envy. Forget designer clothes separating the haves and have-nots. People with iPods can be wearing secondhand jeans, and they're still considered "A-list." Those of us without iPods are made to feel like the red-headed stepchildren of cool.
5. There's no known treatment for iPod-crazy, except to give it up. I know a few people who need to undergo treatment for obsessive iPod disorder. Unfortunately, there's not one. If you are one of these people, save yourself before it's too late. Quit for a while before you, too, become an iPod zombie. Jasmine Johnson is a freshman at Lamar High School in Arlington, Texas.
iPod envy?
Re#34 LOL. Don't be so humble. Heartfelt congrats on the anniversary. Time for me to get back to work as well...
Better pricing as well.
The iPod is marketing genius, but again, there are better MP3 players out there for less money.
Bears repeating. Like M$, it's all marketing- you're being played.
Well at least you have a good head on your shoulders...priorities and all...but that doesn't explain how you manage to stay online 24/7. I mean really. I KNOW they don't make cables that long. Don't you ever go to the bathroom?
wireless router... You know I could be freeping from my royal washroom right now and you'd not know it :o)
XM has a handheld now. Hopefully those that know will tell you more.
Ipods are a little foreign to me. Rush is putting his show on .MP3 download .....does this mean I need an ipod? Is there another player I can get where I can download Rush and then listen to his show?
I was going to get the XM portable but I spent the $300 (XM radio is actually $350) on an ipod.
A professor of epidemiology told me recently that the boomers are going deaf at a higher rate and younger than their parents did, and he expects that teens today will have an unusually high rate of substantial hearing loss in their thirties and forties.
Bought my boys iRiver players (after MUCH research online) vs. iPODs. They love 'em.
Far cheaper; sound fabulous; smaller; include FM radio.
#4.
Hey, Jealousy. Hey, Jealousy.
Not if you use a mac and use the associated mac software, necessarily. It is ultra convenient and very user friendly.
Agreed. One of many problems with today's youth, the root causes being their homes, Hollywood and public education, IMHO...
Sure, it's possible that it's sour grapes. OTOH, it's possible that it isn't.
TS
People who walk around with headphones on isolate themselves from their surroundings, which is fine if that's what they want to do, but it's an extension of sitting around watching television- the world goes by without you.
Personally, I prefer to be aware of my surroundings.
does this completely stupid post come in a podcast format?
iPods are able to be used whether you're on a Mac or a PC. I'm not sure what you meant there. Anyway, since the new Apples are basically FreeBSD with an Apple GUI, they're WAY above MS now in my book.
But regardless, I don't isolate myself. I just use it in lieu of cumbersome CD's in the car/out for walks or hikes, etc. And my point was that, if you're on a Mac, using an iPod is easy peasy lemon squeezy.
Increasingly, that is not the case, radio stations are turning into Great Jukeboxes in the Sky as huge corporations buy up the stations and operate them in a mechanistic (is that a word?) way, i.e., a computer plays the music and interjects commercials.
A sure way of knowing you're listening to one of these "artificial" stations is if you notice that the time is never given.
I once was in radio and I miss the old way of doing things.
If she had skipped point # 4, then you'd maybe, possibly be right.
But number 4 actually makes it clear that it is "Ipod envy" (she even uses the word) and makes a reference to herself not having one.
She (using the word "us") feels left out and uncool because she doesn't have one.
Its sour grapes from a kid who's parents either won't buy her one, or she is to lazy to get a job to pay for one.
I'm a high school teacher. I see both kinds. Granted, I can concede your point on her use of the word "envy". But there was times in high school that I wished I had other things that the other kids had -- and I probably could've bought them (some of them, anyway), too. I just didn't. Don't know why, maybe a little common sense when it came to spending my money.
TS
(who recently bought a memory card for his Palm and now listens to those old-time-radio mp3s that have been sitting on his PC for 5+ years already.
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