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Originally posted by facchino
Will there be a world whereby interaction becomes reduced to virtual and social skills are a mystery to people?
Originally posted by freebornman
Good thread, Facchino. Your analysis is pretty much bang on. Social networking? we used to call it 'going to the pub'. But no-one can afford it anymore, and a lot of people don't like to stray too far from their sky tv.
I have a fb account, and in some ways it is a good thing. I can keep up with family news, and I am back in touch with a lot of schoolfriends, living all over the world. It is interesting to hear how life differs from one country to another.
But I had an experience on fb recently with what turns out to be a full time local troll, that left me quite shocked. I had just posted a comment on a friends post, and some other guy came straight back at me, taking me to task about my comment, and also my friends original post. I patiently tried to reason with the guy for about half an hour, but eventually lost it and told him to go do something rude and anatomically impossible, and went back to home page. He then starts messaging me, offering to fight, and getting quite personal with the insults. So I block his acc. So he comes straight back on another acc. So I block that. Repeat X5 or so, it's getting into freddy kreuger territory now.
The upshot is, I'm a placid sort, but this guy got my goat to the point I almost went looking for him, and if I had I would undoubtedly have ended up with a criminal record.
The point I am trying to make is this. If we had interacted like this in a pub, he would probably notice that I'm about 16 stone of mainly muscle and bone, and gone off to annoy someone else. But from behind a PC, anyone can be a fearless warrior, and all the old social constraints are gone.
Originally posted by facchino
reply to post by fakedirt
Quite worrying - are they able to track online purchases, banking, emails?
Who knows what these people have managed to procure that is, quite simply, nothing to do with them
How they are able to get away with doing this is beyond me - its creepy.
If they want to track what someone clicks on within the facebook page - fair game.
Not outside of that. Unacceptable.
Originally posted by SaneThinking
I find it sad that young kids too early for FB and twitter and the likes, only have the babysitter the XBOX and such as friends. They play there hockey online instead of in the street, there is no guns in the forest because there is call of duty on your box. They get over 13 and can make a FB, bye that time already having cellphones, and most kids I know will send a text to a person across the room.
I feel in todays day and age we are going to have so many children grow up unable to write actual letters with pens, because of computers, children who can't form a sentence with out using text speak. Pretty sad, bet parents have even changed up it's no longer, go play outside cause the technological babysitter is doing such a great job.
As close as the social network gets us, I personally feel it has also been driving us further apart, the future is a scary place can only imagine what our world looks like in ten yrs, mute intorverts only able to communicate through there devices. Sad
SaneThinking
Originally posted by facchino
Originally posted by SaneThinking
I find it sad that young kids too early for FB and twitter and the likes, only have the babysitter the XBOX and such as friends. They play there hockey online instead of in the street, there is no guns in the forest because there is call of duty on your box. They get over 13 and can make a FB, bye that time already having cellphones, and most kids I know will send a text to a person across the room.
I feel in todays day and age we are going to have so many children grow up unable to write actual letters with pens, because of computers, children who can't form a sentence with out using text speak. Pretty sad, bet parents have even changed up it's no longer, go play outside cause the technological babysitter is doing such a great job.
As close as the social network gets us, I personally feel it has also been driving us further apart, the future is a scary place can only imagine what our world looks like in ten yrs, mute intorverts only able to communicate through there devices. Sad
SaneThinking
Sad Sad Sad
just that ^^^ really. It is forcing people to become less sociable, as in my title, the irony is astounding.
Social networking - that leads more people to just become less able to interact with those around them.
Yet no one can see it coming.
I hope and pray for a backlash against it, but almost everyone I know uses it to some degree, with the majority of them hooked on it and posting numerous times a day.
Originally posted by albertabound
I deleted my FB about 2 weeks ago and as soon as I did it, it seemed like this huge weight was lifted from my shoulders; I really felt like I did the right thing and have been trying to convince my friends to do the same but they think I am crazy, literally.
Basically it felt AWESOME.