Just to clear up the misconception, if you will, please reread exactly what I wrote. It's still there and please note that I took extra pains toward the end of it to state that I specified that the tone of your words seemed grumpy but I wouldn't call YOU grumpy because for all I knew you were perfectly happy when you made your post.
It was a TL/DR post so I don't blame you for missing that part but it IS there. I can comment on how the tone of your post comes across to me but it wouldn't be fair of me to assume or presume that you were in fact grumpy when I wasn't there sitting next to you watching you post. It all goes back to my hope we can discuss and pay attention to what is said without making assumptions about each other based on what really amounts to insufficient information when you really think about it.
I do think that goes to the heart of concerns about friends' reactions to the Apple Watch. The ideal is that we would be judged for the total of what we do and that the good we do and the contributions we make will weigh the most in everyone's regard. Not little things we know don't define us.
But the reality is that people do make snap judgements of us as a whole based on the smallest cues and clues. So we do end up worrying what we wear will say about us in their minds. "If I wear this watch will my friends write me off as a geek?"... "If I can afford to splurge on the Edition and go for it, will they think I'm a shallow spendthrift with more money than sense, even though I normally spend heavily of time and money on charitable causes?"
There's another thread on this forum where someone judged putting a case on the watch as a "Douchebag" thing to do. Others, including myself pointed out why people might legitimately want to do that.
Say for example that a person who volunteers their time and money helping underprivileged children decided for whatever reason to put a case on their watch. Is it fair to write a person off as a DB for doing something so trivial just because one doesn't understand it? It's not fair but it's perfectly in line with human nature for people to do that to each other.
The fact is I will indeed run into someone, hopefully not a friend, who will have plenty of negative thoughts about this product and will therefore form very negative ideas about me as a person for being so stupid/crass/any negative adjective as to choose it. In the real world I will have to just shrug it off and go about my business. In the forum world I would attempt to discuss it.
My husband just told me he saw quite a bit of advertising for the Apple Watch during the Duke-Wisconsin game. It looks like Apple is trying to ramp up awareness. With celebs like Pharrel already turning up in the watch it will be interesting to see the opinions and reactions among our friends take shape.
I am thrilled my "First contact" went so well that my Sis-in-law wants one. And that we can get her one. She's a great aunt to all the kids in the family. She deserves to be treated.
Thanks for asking thought and discussion provoking questions about the watch. I'm sorry I wasn't clear and that you thought I was labeling YOU as grumpy. No...that would be me!
It was a TL/DR post so I don't blame you for missing that part but it IS there. I can comment on how the tone of your post comes across to me but it wouldn't be fair of me to assume or presume that you were in fact grumpy when I wasn't there sitting next to you watching you post. It all goes back to my hope we can discuss and pay attention to what is said without making assumptions about each other based on what really amounts to insufficient information when you really think about it.
I do think that goes to the heart of concerns about friends' reactions to the Apple Watch. The ideal is that we would be judged for the total of what we do and that the good we do and the contributions we make will weigh the most in everyone's regard. Not little things we know don't define us.
But the reality is that people do make snap judgements of us as a whole based on the smallest cues and clues. So we do end up worrying what we wear will say about us in their minds. "If I wear this watch will my friends write me off as a geek?"... "If I can afford to splurge on the Edition and go for it, will they think I'm a shallow spendthrift with more money than sense, even though I normally spend heavily of time and money on charitable causes?"
There's another thread on this forum where someone judged putting a case on the watch as a "Douchebag" thing to do. Others, including myself pointed out why people might legitimately want to do that.
Say for example that a person who volunteers their time and money helping underprivileged children decided for whatever reason to put a case on their watch. Is it fair to write a person off as a DB for doing something so trivial just because one doesn't understand it? It's not fair but it's perfectly in line with human nature for people to do that to each other.
The fact is I will indeed run into someone, hopefully not a friend, who will have plenty of negative thoughts about this product and will therefore form very negative ideas about me as a person for being so stupid/crass/any negative adjective as to choose it. In the real world I will have to just shrug it off and go about my business. In the forum world I would attempt to discuss it.
My husband just told me he saw quite a bit of advertising for the Apple Watch during the Duke-Wisconsin game. It looks like Apple is trying to ramp up awareness. With celebs like Pharrel already turning up in the watch it will be interesting to see the opinions and reactions among our friends take shape.
I am thrilled my "First contact" went so well that my Sis-in-law wants one. And that we can get her one. She's a great aunt to all the kids in the family. She deserves to be treated.
Thanks for asking thought and discussion provoking questions about the watch. I'm sorry I wasn't clear and that you thought I was labeling YOU as grumpy. No...that would be me!
