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stoicfaux
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Posted - 2013.09.08 18:21:00 -
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Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:stoicfaux wrote:Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:My cellular is 6 years old. I barely use it and its battery lasts about one week. It haves a VGA camera (640 x 480 pixels) but I never used it (and don't ask me how to take a picture with my phone). I've never had a profile on any social network. Googling my real name barely produces a few pages of results, and most of them are about someone with a similar name and a social network profile ( ). I think that I've uploaded less than ten pictures of me to the Internet, ever. I consider myself a IT-luddite and I'm proud of it. Pheh. Amateur. If you really want relief from attention sapping devices, a) don't keep friends, and b) don't keep coworkers. That leaves family, but an Eliza chat bot hooked into a good voice synthesizer works around that. Now excuse me while I finish typing my manifesto. I said IT-luddite, not misanthropist. Given the prevalence of social media and cell phones providing 24-7 availability that even our parents and grandparents can use, is there really a difference?
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Ishtanchuk Fazmarai
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Posted - 2013.09.08 18:48:00 -
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stoicfaux wrote:Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:stoicfaux wrote:Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:My cellular is 6 years old. I barely use it and its battery lasts about one week. It haves a VGA camera (640 x 480 pixels) but I never used it (and don't ask me how to take a picture with my phone). I've never had a profile on any social network. Googling my real name barely produces a few pages of results, and most of them are about someone with a similar name and a social network profile ( ). I think that I've uploaded less than ten pictures of me to the Internet, ever. I consider myself a IT-luddite and I'm proud of it. Pheh. Amateur. If you really want relief from attention sapping devices, a) don't keep friends, and b) don't keep coworkers. That leaves family, but an Eliza chat bot hooked into a good voice synthesizer works around that. Now excuse me while I finish typing my manifesto. I said IT-luddite, not misanthropist. Given the prevalence of social media and cell phones providing 24-7 availability that even our parents and grandparents can use, is there really a difference?
I do use even landlines to phone my family (true story). The only smartphone in our household is my father's... and he's trying to remove FB from it as he's tired of getting updates from friends(?) he doesn't knows. Probably the day he started getting FB updates in Chinese, he figured that he was doing something wrong with FB...
Anyway, no. Not being receptive to e-narcissism doesn't makes me a misanthropist, not even anti-social. My life is not worth sharing and my intimacy is mine. I don't feel like bargaining with them so some company earns money selling my customs to companies who look to improve their unsolicited advertisement campaigns targeted at me.
If it is good that the Government knows the less possible about you, why should be good that a private for-profit company knew when i had a burger or who was with me at that time? Even worse, why should that company know that I was having a burger with some fool who thought that spreading the new to the whole universe made him "specialest" than the other fools?
"I had a burguer, 200 people know it, 0 care but they will send me 50 updates on the 50 burgers they had in 50 different places! I.. am... special! (And Burguer King just sent me an offer because according to Big Data, many of my friends eat there... how kind, how caring they are!)"
Not. My. Piece. Of. Cake. The Greater Fool Bar is now open for business, 24/7. Come and have drinks and fun somewhere between RL and New Eden! |
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
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Posted - 2013.09.09 17:44:00 -
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There's a sociology theory that smartphones and social media are actually making people less connected to society. The technology (especially cell phones/smart phones) allows people to stay constantly in touch with each other throughout the day. So people stay in constant touch with their personal circle (their "tribe"), rather than interacting with people outside of the tribe. Example: Three co-workers go to lunch. As soon as they sit down, the pull out smart phones and start communicating with non-present tribe members, instead of with the people who are present. Another true life example: Plumber shows up at the house in the middle of a cell phone call. Goes straight to the kitchen sink and starts working, still on the call. Doesn't hang up until the job is done and he's presenting the bill to the customer.
Whatever, I never want to be one of those people who haul out their smartphone every time there's the slightest pause in the action. The level of addiction is kind of pathetic. |
Eiji Kusoni
State War Academy Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.09.09 20:17:00 -
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Eighties tech only wouldn't be so bad, we had multiple gaming consoles, cable television, audio and video cassettes, hell we even had the telephone, and if you were especially nerdy you could use the tone dial to send text messages by sound.
Now fifties tech only, that would be the challenge. |
Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
1806
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Posted - 2013.09.09 22:39:00 -
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Amateurs. They should move in with an Amish group. http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/User:Akita_T Build your own EVE PC http://oldforums.eveonline.com/?a=topic&threadID=1559734 |
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai
1789
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Posted - 2013.09.10 06:57:00 -
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Khergit Deserters wrote:There's a sociology theory that smartphones and social media are actually making people less connected to society. The technology (especially cell phones/smart phones) allows people to stay constantly in touch with each other throughout the day. So people stay in constant touch with their personal circle (their "tribe"), rather than interacting with people outside of the tribe. Example: Three co-workers go to lunch. As soon as they sit down, the pull out smart phones and start communicating with non-present tribe members, instead of with the people who are present. Another true life example: Plumber shows up at the house in the middle of a cell phone call. Goes straight to the kitchen sink and starts working, still on the call. Doesn't hang up until the job is done and he's presenting the bill to the customer.
Whatever, I never want to be one of those people who haul out their smartphone every time there's the slightest pause in the action. The level of addiction is kind of pathetic.
"Divide and conquer". People without high quality personal links are prone to consume more to compensate for their unsatisfaction. By allowing them to focus on 100 low-quality interactions, consumers are deprived to interact with potential high quality acquitances.
Social media favor quantity over quality (actually quality goes down the drain, we can just take so much bullshit before growing royally tired of it). They also lower the ability to think or reflexion, which also makes for good consumers and trains them with pavlovian triggers.
It's just good business, don't ask why, keep doing. We're in it for the money, and future will take care of itself. The Greater Fool Bar is now open for business, 24/7. Come and have drinks and fun somewhere between RL and New Eden! |
Jena Jamson
Deep Core Mining Inc. Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.09.10 08:47:00 -
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Wow, I suppose he'd ban the internet to keep the libraries open. |
Chainsaw Plankton
IDLE GUNS IDLE EMPIRE
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Posted - 2013.09.12 02:05:00 -
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kids are 5 and 2... I think this says more about the parents than the kids. You can trust me, I have a monocole |
Jade III
Wolf Star Enterprises
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Posted - 2013.09.12 03:28:00 -
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The article was telling you how a man banned his family from ever getting "ahead" in life. Recruiting! WOSET Recruitment My adventure blog: Lone Wolf Adventures
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Eiji Kusoni
State War Academy Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.09.12 06:11:00 -
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Jade III wrote:The article was telling you how a man banned his family from ever getting "ahead" in life. Because getting ahead in life means having the latest iCrap? |
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