Old Fasioned... (Or Modern?)

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In my two main hobbies which I have discovered are classed as special interests in my case, I have explored the ins and outs of both, being at the front of the technology for a while, but as time progressed and I have experience behind me, in both hobbies, though not simultaneously, I started to hone in on the specific aspects of each of the hobbies that I liked. And the results in both cases are that I much prefer traditional old fasioned tried and tested aspects rather then the modern trends. I began to see the modern trends as ways to make money rather then be of any real practical value. Sure they worked, but they were not neccessarily what one is looking for from a practical view, and more alarmingly the modern trends tend to be jolly expensive and need costly maintenence or additional items to continue using them... Whereby traditional values and aspects were quite inexpensive, simple and did the job often better then their modern counterparts.

I'm old fashioned in almost every way. There's nothing I like about the world my parents have bequeathed to me in comparison with say the world of a century ago. I bitterly regret having been born in the 1990s.

I am partly old fasioned. I am not modern.

Model railways. After going into DCC in a big way in the year 2000, which was many years before most made the change in the UK, I decided I much prefered the simplicity of good old fasioned clunky toggle switches, and simple DC wiring, which I can fully understand. I have even made my own simple DC controller.
I habe turned back to traditional scratchbuilding techniques. Modern 3D printing... While I do appreciatenit... To me it feels like cheating, as I am not physically creating anything with my hands.

Bicycles, I have personally found to have developed at a tangent which is not only out of the reach of most pockets, but, if anything not as practical as it once was. I can easily go into finer details here and some will not agree, and some will. But it really needs a thread on its own to do that! I could almost keep such a thread going for years!

I’m old-fashioned and modern. It depends on what specific area we’re talking about. I have very liberal values, but I enjoy books and music from various time periods as well as old movies.

I’m very glad to be living in the present. I can enjoy things that I like from the past while having (and expressing) modern rights and values. I guess I think of it as the best of both worlds.

I’m very glad to be living in a time when I don’t have to wear a dress or corset.

The present is better for LGBT and autism

Diversity

But I don't love modern technology. No addiction

And modern manners

I'm neither modern or old-fashioned. I'm between vintage and retro. I've always liked the 1960s, especially things from the years 1964 - 1969. Between Mod and Hippie, I lean more towards the hippie end of the spectrum. I like the music, fashions and the TV shows of the 60s. I also like the technology as well. There were also more Sweet Peas around because people were nicer.

I enjoy using my hands, and often prefer manual tools and traditional materials. However, my vocation was about building things decades ahead of "modern" forms through advanced engineering that seems obvious to me.

Old fashioned FTW!

Old technology,
No television whatsoever,
Edwardian clothes, rough and scratchy and generously fitted (no silly slim-fit made of stinking polyester.)
A big bakelite phone that clicks and sputters when you dial it,
Typewriters! Causing a friend of mine to yell "F--k fidget toys, let me see that!" (I kid you not.)
The old gramophone with its big horn--
Classic books,
BUTTON-ON SUSPENDERS!! ! Holds up pants. Very important.
The smell of the kerosene lamp, and the glow that lets me take off my glasses and relax
Edison light bulbs,
Black coffee in a percolator
A hardbacked book by C.S. Lewis or G.K. Chesterton
Romance novels like the one I'm writing
Harold Lloyd movies
The sound of head-banger classical music
My ancient economy (which I can fix on the side of the road)
Radio China on the old 1938 shortwave
The whir of brass-bladed electric fans,

For tactile reasons alone, old stuff rules.

Mentally and spiritually I am Roman Catholic. I'm not spiritual in the least. I'm religious. (I don't like Wrong Planet 100 per cent, either: whether the silly bigotry or the atheists playing at theology, which is as silly as me giving a lecture on Atheism 101) I like old philosophy, and everything appertaining. Mentally I act like it's 1925 and I'm at the Louvain and we just took the 1907 Anti-Modernism Oath of Pope Pius X.

So a lot of folks would say that is old-fashioned. I would say, "true, not old fashioned." But truth is outdated these days in the age of relativism, convenience, division, ignorance, and the civil war that comes with all that.

But I make modernity concessions--like Wrong Planet, which is honestly pretty cool.

Come on, now, where's our cave man? We've got to have some Aspies out there who literally do live under rocks.

Old fashioned

If I had my life to over, I would've left the lower 48 after high school and moved to Alaska.

Completely off the grid: subsistence, candles, growing crops, firewood. My one modern concession would be books.

Modernity and trendiness shouldn't necessarily be viewed as interchangeable terms. The act of following trends is a rather old-fashioned concept in itself. Modern technology has provided a seemingly unlimited range of options for individuals. One can binge on an obscure television series that virtually no one else has heard of, for example, or spend hours playing a snooker simulation video game. Neither of those things are trendy, but both would have been much more difficult to do 30-40 years ago. Similarly the works of Beethoven, Mozart et al are infinitely easier to access now than when those geniuses were alive.

To answer the question more generally, I suppose I'm a mixture. My electronic devices are important to me, but I'm not someone who has to have a smart phone with me at all times. On a train I would often rather read a book or look out of the windows at the passing scenery than be tapping away at my phone.

A combination of both-my values are traditional, but I also want to learn more about the technology of the modern world, particularly as Toastmasters is becoming more digital/tech oriented.

I, definitely, have a 20th-century mindset.

I like the convenience of technology, though. I like that I can, say, pay bills with my phone, instead of having to pay them via "snail mail."

One thing very noticeable about me, considering my age especially, is my lack of using a smart phone.

I have one, but it's purely for texting and calls. I get annoyed with communication that way and would much rather type from a keyboard.

I don't use it to distract myself constantly. I space off and think about something. I just have an aversion to using it.