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MutantMandias Perverse and Often Baffling
Location: Atlanta, GA Gender: Male Total Likes: 268 likes
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| | | | Re: Social Media and Eternal Connectedness < Reply # 2 on 5/29/2012 2:18 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by G to the Race I do use it to keep up w/some folks but I don't use it to broadcast my personal or familial achievements, and I certainly don't think people care about my breakfast.
| Try not to let our meta-evolved-bio-connected-consciousness hit you in the ass on your way out, OLD MAN. In the next few years, codgers like you will still be sitting pitifully in your little meat hovels, crying about "privacy" as if it actually matters or has even existed at all for the last 50 years. You're so dumb, you don't even realize its already gone.
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| Harvestman
Location: Somewhere in SORTA/TANK Territory! Gender: Male Total Likes: 565 likes
Everything about me has a poker face.
| | | | Re: Social Media and Eternal Connectedness < Reply # 5 on 5/30/2012 12:20 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by metawaffle Without getting into whether these are good or bad things, but just accepting that we have them, and a drive to use them, where do you see this pervasive first-world connectedness going in five, ten, twenty years?
| I see it growing exponentially. Let me use music as an example of what I think is going to happen. Let's say you start in the days of opera houses, where you have to be present to hear music. Then wax cylinders come along, and you're able to listen to the music as long as you're at home. The same goes for records, reel-to-reel tapes, and other vintage media formats. Then the cassette tape comes along, and you have a whole format based around compactness and versatility. Now you don't have to be at home to listen to music. The same applies to compact discs. Then digital audio formats come along. You can now listen to music if you have a computer or with an MP3 player, for instance. There's literally no need to have human contact with a musical artist as long as you can listen to them. But some people still choose to go to concerts, even though they could listen to a live recording at home. Why? It's a different experience. Let me try and connect this to social media. The days of opera houses are like life without social media, where you have to communicate in person because there's not a better alternative. Primitive forms of media, like cylinders and records, are like the beginning of the Internet. The technology is there, and it's growing quickly. Cassettes, compact discs, and other advanced forms of physical media are like social media in the Myspace area, for instance. Social media is there, but people aren't perpetually connected yet. And then you get to where we are now, where, for some people, human contact has been replaced by social media. But, of course, some people choose to defect and shy away from social media, for the same reason: it's a different experience. (I know there are other reasons, like privacy worries, but that's a whole other ball game.) Am I making sense, or am I just rambling?
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| metawaffle King of Puns
Location: Brisbane! Gender: Male Total Likes: 19 likes
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| | | | Re: Social Media and Eternal Connectedness < Reply # 12 on 5/31/2012 12:03 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Oryx
Hah! One good thing about this social media thing is that I have been able to make friends where I otherwise probably wouldn't. When you live in a town (or state) full of douche bags, your options for friendship are limited to douche bags or loneliness. The internet makes it possible to find many like minded people to connect with. Sure, they may be thousands of miles away, but distance doesn't really matter these days. Hell, I talk to you folks on avchat more than I talk to my own roommate.
| That's a really good point! I've taken many trips to catch up with people I've met online, and really, my closest friends these days, even locally, are probably people I originally knew from the internet. But, more so, being able to transcend the local douchebags is an important point. One thing that online communities do is de-marginalise people by validating that there are other People Like You. Beyond that, too, having such an easy reach beyond your local borders does mean exposure to different attitudes and philosophies... could broad, pervasive connectedness bring the attitudes of multicultural society to places that wouldn't get it through local population alone? That sounds way too utopian, I know - maybe there's room in there for online ghettos to develop
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| MutantMandias Perverse and Often Baffling
Location: Atlanta, GA Gender: Male Total Likes: 268 likes
Are you a reporter? Contact me for a UE interview! Also not averse to the the idea of group/anal.
| | | | Re: Social Media and Eternal Connectedness < Reply # 13 on 5/31/2012 4:37 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by metawaffle One thing that online communities do is de-marginalise people by validating that there are other People Like You.
| Oh, no, no, no, Meta. You should not feel de-marginalised or validated. That really isn't okay.
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| Harvestman
Location: Somewhere in SORTA/TANK Territory! Gender: Male Total Likes: 565 likes
Everything about me has a poker face.
| | | | Re: Social Media and Eternal Connectedness < Reply # 16 on 2/27/2013 1:52 AM > | Reply with Quote
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