Board 8 > Strife's Soapbox: Social Media

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I recently joined Twitter last week, and I'm already bored. I've never been the most socialable person in the world. I felt instant messaging was a great step forward for me, because as a teenager, I had a great fear of rejection. I grew out of it and now, I don't really bother with people in general anymore. If I do, it is in face to face meetings. Posting meaningless status updates or playing FarmVille doesn't strike me as evolutionary progress. While it does give access to more people at once, I think it also creates plenty of problems. People on Facebook tried to use my likeness to screw with my relatives, and I've seen people posting to each other on Twitter while "chatting" face to face. There's the case of Roy Williams (Cowboys WR) sending a $76,000 engagement ring through the mail. Obviously, that failed, and one has to wonder if in this age of internet interaction, we've lost how to communicate with people. Social interactions will continue to change. What way will they change, and what impact will they have?

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"Should I slice off your tongue or break your countless bones? Either way, I get paid; you'll bleed to death and die alone." - Blood Money

I have a facebook and a twitter. I use facebook sporadically -- quite so -- but when it's useful it's damn useful. I very rarely use twitter for anything other than following game developers and the like and posing various questions to voice actors.

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Sir Chris Police ~Ace Detective in Homicide~
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I used to hate Twitter but I enjoy it now. A lot of people use it to do stuff like linking to interesting articles.

There's also a lot of people who still misuse it, though. No, I don't give a crap that my friend's "at work" or that he's "having lunch" now.

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Full rap metal jacket ~ Method Man

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"Should I slice off your tongue or break your countless bones? Either way, I get paid; you'll bleed to death and die alone." - Blood Money

From: Strife2 | #001
I recently joined Twitter last week, and I'm already bored.

Congrats.

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"So cold. I am always by your side."
"There ain't no gettin' off of this train we on!"

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"Should I slice off your tongue or break your countless bones? Either way, I get paid; you'll bleed to death and die alone." - Blood Money

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"Should I slice off your tongue or break your countless bones? Either way, I get paid; you'll bleed to death and die alone." - Blood Money

it's funny to see someone so clearly socially inept concerned about people losing the ability to communicate. people who don't view joining facebook or twitter as a big deal are generally doing just fine

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omg did u red text from last night dats so me LMAO : )
im not a slut i jus liek 2 haev fun LOL : )

final bump

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"Should I slice off your tongue or break your countless bones? Either way, I get paid; you'll bleed to death and die alone." - Blood Money