It's Personal...

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Fri Nov 09, 2012 3:58 pm

i am, as of right now, about 28.5 years old . . i have never had an account on either facebook, myspace, twitter or any of these so called social networks . . the only reason why i probably have one on google+ (i actually don't know) is that i own an android device . . which means i have a google mail account . . and thus youtube . . and probably google+ . .
people tell secrets there to the whole world and freak the fuck out when you mention them on a face to face basis while out in that big blue room with the too high gamma count . .

Starmaker · Post by **Starmaker** » Fri Nov 09, 2012 5:45 pm

Stahlseele wrote:the only reason why i probably have one on google+ (i actually don't know) is that i own an android device . . which means i have a google mail account . . and thus youtube . . and probably google+ . .

Google Plus is opt-in. You probably have a standard Google profile.

I'm 26. I made several throwaway research/troll accounts on facebook and the Russian facebook clone (did not even bother to build up a fake identity), but the only social network I actually use is IBM developerWorks. Thus, if I ever run into an HR manager who asks me about social networks, I'll be able to avoid giving a red flag NO answer and make an impression of professionalism at the same time.

...You Lost Me · Post by **...You Lost Me** » Sat Nov 10, 2012 12:07 am

I'm just going to put it out there that I like Facebook. I'm not sure what you guys believe you'll see (or what you've already seen), but my news feed is a series of photos, gif/picture/video links, and statuses. Every one of them takes less than 30 seconds to read and I can get through everything from a whole day in about 10 minutes. Once in a while I see a rant, or "look at me in the mirror" pictures, emotional statuses, etc. But I can skim past those with the magic powers of human discretion and my mouse's scroll button.

Facebook currently lets me keep up on cool parts of my friends lives, organize events into a unified calender, and get the equivalent of e-mail/instant message all together. I'll be damned if I'm going to pass that up.

When I find something particularly interesting, or something I want to tell people about, I write a status or make a wall post. When I find something funny or I want to show people where I went, I put up a picture. Calling that sort of thing masturbatory is like saying "How was your day?" is a handjob. It really doesn't equate.

Pseudo Stupidity · Post by **Pseudo Stupidity** » Sat Nov 10, 2012 1:06 am

...You Lost Me wrote:I'm just going to put it out there that I like Facebook. I'm not sure what you guys believe you'll see (or what you've already seen), but my news feed is a series of photos, gif/picture/video links, and statuses. Every one of them takes less than 30 seconds to read and I can get through everything from a whole day in about 10 minutes. Once in a while I see a rant, or "look at me in the mirror" pictures, emotional statuses, etc. But I can skim past those with the magic powers of human discretion and my mouse's scroll button.

Facebook currently lets me keep up on cool parts of my friends lives, organize events into a unified calender, and get the equivalent of e-mail/instant message all together. I'll be damned if I'm going to pass that up.

When I find something particularly interesting, or something I want to tell people about, I write a status or make a wall post. When I find something funny or I want to show people where I went, I put up a picture. Calling that sort of thing masturbatory is like saying "How was your day?" is a handjob. It really doesn't equate.

It's masturbatory because nobody asked you where you went last night.

When I ask somebody "what did you do last night" it is appropriate for them to tell me, because I am interested. If somebody comes up to me saying "OMG I WENT TO A BAR LAST NIGHT AND DID BODY SHOTS" I immediately look for a way out of that conversation because I couldn't give fewer fucks. Almost everything on facebook that people my age (early 20s) post is the equivalent of that, because facebook is made for that shit.

I do not care about that, especially when 100 people are posting it. I don't care if my acquaintance went to a bar or something. Facebook is 90% that sort of stuff, I want no part of it. Maybe you keep your friend list small, but when EVERYONE WHO MEETS YOU asks to be friends it is impossible to do that and not seem like a massive douche.

Facebook made having lots of friends in college harder because people thought you were an ass if you didn't friend them, and if you did they expected you to go on facebook and do things. Fuck that noise, and fuck facebook.[/i]

Ted the Flayer · Post by **Ted the Flayer** » Sat Nov 10, 2012 1:44 am

But I like masturbating...

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:18 pm

Then God hates you but that's okay because he'll forgive you and love you, and so does Tammy Baker, she loves you too and don't you do too, Jim? I think I'll sing.

...You Lost Me · Post by **...You Lost Me** » Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:21 pm

I think you're overexaggerating a really small flaw. I'm in an identical age group with a friend list of 400 people, and I get one of those posts per 50 I scroll through. Hell, even if you have that problems, you can have a Facebook and scroll through those things. Or you can have a Facebook and remove their posts from your news feed. Or you can have a Facebook and just not go to that page.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Mon Nov 12, 2012 12:08 am

I prefer MySpace, because no one uses it anymore, so it's completely empty of strangers and bears that claim to be your friend, and then maul you. With friend requests

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:32 am

I have finally realized my purpose in life, as told to me by a large-titted Incan monkey god wearing the bloodied head of Joe Don Rooney: To purchase the Masterpiece MP-5 Megatron toy, remove the little orange safety cap, and run around my neighborhood wearing nothing but my Pokemon print boxers, waving Megs around in his ultra-realistic gun mode, screaming "Ikthar ni not no Kithar!" until I ultimately get gunned down in a hail of bullets by the cops in a dramatic showdown.

... Okay, so it's not perfect, but at least I know what I'm gonna do with my life. Can you say that much?

Juton · Post by **Juton** » Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:35 am

Shrapnel wrote:I have finally realized my purpose in life, as told to me by a large-titted Incan monkey god wearing the bloodied head of Joe Don Rooney: To purchase the Masterpiece MP-5 Megatron toy, remove the little orange safety cap, and run around my neighborhood wearing nothing but my Pokemon print boxers, waving Megs around in his ultra-realistic gun mode, screaming "Ikthar ni not no Kithar!" until I ultimately get gunned down in a hail of bullets by the cops in a dramatic showdown.

... Okay, so it's not perfect, but at least I know what I'm gonna do with my life. Can you say that much?

I think if you get your MP Megs from Japan you can get in without the orange cap. Takara usually has higher quality control than Hasbro, so why cheap out?

Pseudo Stupidity · Post by **Pseudo Stupidity** » Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:52 pm

...You Lost Me wrote:I think you're overexaggerating a really small flaw. I'm in an identical age group with a friend list of 400 people, and I get one of those posts per 50 I scroll through. Hell, even if you have that problems, you can have a Facebook and scroll through those things. Or you can have a Facebook and remove their posts from your news feed. Or you can have a Facebook and just not go to that page.

I have a facebook. I just don't use my facebook. Scrolling through the things I don't care about takes time, because I need to recognize it's something I don't care about (see: anything somebody posts on facebook) to skip it.

If whatever you did is important, email/call/text me about it. That's how my actual friends and family talk to me. One of my friends is getting a house and I actually knew about it because we're friends so we fucking talked about it. I didn't find out through a facebook post.

Maybe you think there's some meaning in the posts on your feed or whatever, I just don't care at all enough about what 400 acquaintances do. I mean, you don't have 400 friends. The people who you don't hang out with aren't your friends, so why do you care about what they do? Do you think you'll miss something important from your actual friends if you aren't on facebook? My friends tell me if something is going on because that is the sort of thing friends do.

Maybe I'm slightly anti-social for not caring what my acquaintances are up to, but that doesn't make spending time catching up on that shit any more important. I waste my time in my own way, keeping up with what 400 people who I vaguely know is not a way I do it. I could be doing something far more interesting, like complaining about facebook or actually spending time with friends.

If you're my friend I make an effort to communicate with you and do something we enjoy. Maybe that thing is something physical, maybe it's just going online and playing a game together, it could just be talking. Facebook is just a middle man (and an obnoxious one) for all that, it's worthless to me. It would be worthless to everyone else if they realized being a good friend means you actually talk to your friends.

Throwing messages out into the abyss that is facebook is an objectively terrible form of communication. There's too much noise unless you keep a small list.[/i]

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Wed Nov 14, 2012 3:12 pm

Juton wrote:
Shrapnel wrote:I have finally realized my purpose in life, as told to me by a large-titted Incan monkey god wearing the bloodied head of Joe Don Rooney: To purchase the Masterpiece MP-5 Megatron toy, remove the little orange safety cap, and run around my neighborhood wearing nothing but my Pokemon print boxers, waving Megs around in his ultra-realistic gun mode, screaming "Ikthar ni not no Kithar!" until I ultimately get gunned down in a hail of bullets by the cops in a dramatic showdown.

... Okay, so it's not perfect, but at least I know what I'm gonna do with my life. Can you say that much?
I think if you get your MP Megs from Japan you can get in without the orange cap. Takara usually has higher quality control than Hasbro, so why cheap out?

Hmm... not a bad idea...

virgil · Post by **virgil** » Wed Nov 14, 2012 3:16 pm

Pseudo Stupidity wrote:Throwing messages out into the abyss that is facebook is an objectively terrible form of communication. There's too much noise unless you keep a small list.

That's why I have a small list and have over half of them off my newsfeed. I keep in touch with about a handful of people regularly over it because they're on it, and if they were closer or had an easier schedule to get in touch we would (and have) get in touch that way.

Pseudo Stupidity · Post by **Pseudo Stupidity** » Wed Nov 14, 2012 5:43 pm

virgil wrote:
Pseudo Stupidity wrote:Throwing messages out into the abyss that is facebook is an objectively terrible form of communication. There's too much noise unless you keep a small list.
That's why I have a small list and have over half of them off my newsfeed. I keep in touch with about a handful of people regularly over it because they're on it, and if they were closer or had an easier schedule to get in touch we would (and have) get in touch that way.

Small list is an acceptable use of facebook.

I still don't see what it offers that other social networking platforms don't, and it also has the problem of "FRIEND ME ON FACEBOOK K!?" from people you don't know or like, but that reminds me of facebook for the week where I enjoyed it.

virgil · Post by **virgil** » Wed Nov 14, 2012 6:10 pm

Pseudo Stupidity wrote:I still don't see what it offers that other social networking platforms don't

It offers friends, to an extent. A social networking platform is useless if the majority of your friends don't use it.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:11 pm

virgil wrote:It offers friends, to an extent. A social networking platform is useless if the majority of your friends don't use it.

Oooh... That's why phones don't work anymore.

virgil · Post by **virgil** » Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:32 pm

Maj wrote:
virgil wrote:It offers friends, to an extent. A social networking platform is useless if the majority of your friends don't use it.
Oooh... That's why phones don't work anymore.

For me, they don't. My mother is terrible about answering her phone and never checks voice mail. My sister's free time infrequently coincides w/mine to get a proper phone call which we prefer to use for full conversations. At least two of my friends actually don't have a phone, and do all of their correspondence through internet (predominantly FB).

As has been said, there are features with a social platform that are more efficient than calling everyone you can remember. FB doesn't do it as well as others, but it's still better by virtue of there actually being people who use it, which was my reason for getting on it.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Thu Nov 15, 2012 5:41 pm

Our phone rings all the fucking time, and it's really annoying. Most callers are either telemarketers and such, often from places like Ohio or Arkansas. (For seriously.)

And occasionally it's from family and/or friends, often when I don't want to talk to them, because I'm doing something important, like self-flagellation, or listening to Megaman music while I'm on the Den.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sat Nov 17, 2012 1:48 pm

Just got home and showered after my first real shift at TRU. It can basically be summed up in one word: "ow"

erik · Post by **erik** » Sat Nov 17, 2012 9:25 pm

Just quit my call center job today. I'm pretty certain I'm getting hired to train as an ophthalmology tech, but even if I don't get into that career (and I really hope I do get it), I'd rather go do retail over the holidays and join Prak with the pain than keep driving 30 miles to grind at the call center.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sat Nov 17, 2012 11:21 pm

It's not that bad after hours. For one thing, I don't have to watch my language.

Ted the Flayer · Post by **Ted the Flayer** » Sun Nov 18, 2012 10:14 pm

I'm going on a rant of a very personal nature here. You don't have to read it if you don't want to.

An old friend of mine is a hardcore Libertarian, to the point of fellating Ron Paul if he asked for him to. I said I was glad he resigned, due to his lack of efficiency (I don't think he's gotten one bill passed), and that the fact that his opinions are bad and he should feel bad.

The guy went on a fucking TEAR to me, to the point I literally called him up on the phone and SCREAMED at him. I have not gotten that mad at ANYTHING since I was in high school, no fucking joke. He said that anyone who disagrees with anything Ron Paul says is a fascist and an enemy of all liberty. I shit you not.

Anyway, I ended up apologizing but I regret doing so now.

Now here's the part that's going to make me sound like a grade-A douche, but I'll at least be in good company here.

This man, to put it bluntly, has grown up to be everything I hate. He was a real cool kid, but I can't understand him anymore. When we were younger, he was a gifted musician. And although I was better than average with the ladies for people of my peer group (i.e., nerds), he literally got fucked multiple times a week by multiple women. And when he settled down, it was with a woman that literally devotes herself entirely to his every whim. She cooks, she cleans, she raises his kids, the man is free to chase his hobbies with little to no interference from his family.

Now, this is what pisses me off. He has managed to luck into really good positions where he makes lots of money, and he decided to breed until even his massive wealth cannot support all his children. He is literally making twice as much as I did at my highest salary, and he's on fucking welfare because he won't wrap it before he taps it. And yet, somehow he seems fit to complain about how oppressive the federal government. BITCH, MY FUCKING TAX DOLLARS ARE KEEPING YOUR KIDS FROM DYING IN THE STREET. I AM FINE WITH THAT BUT STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT THE ONLY REASON YOUR LIFE WORKS. And despite his wealth, he bitches constantly about how state workers have a better job than him, and they make too much money and shit. IF YOUR FUCKING JOB SUCKS THAT MUCH THEN FILL OUT A FUCKING APPLICATION. YOU'LL PROBABLY GET IT TOO BECAUSE EVERYONE YOU MEET CAN'T WAIT TO DO FUCKING FAVORS FOR YOU. This guy has been given everything I've worked so hard for and been denied for three and a half decades and he wants to whine about how he's getting held down by "the man".

Also, he told me that he likes arguing with me because every time we argue he is stronger in his own beliefs. I'M NOT YOUR FUCKING CHURCH STUDY GROUP, I'M ARGUING WITH YOU BECAUSE STUPID THINGS ARE COMING OUT OF YOUR MOUTH AND IT IS GIVING ME CANCER.

Whew, rant over. I really need to stop giving a shit what people thing, I think I need to give about 20% less shits.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Sun Nov 18, 2012 10:45 pm

Ted wrote:An old friend of mine is a hardcore Libertarian, to the point of fellating Ron Paul if he asked for him to. I said I was glad he resigned, due to his lack of efficiency (I don't think he's gotten one bill passed), and that the fact that his opinions are bad and he should feel bad.

Ron Paul got one bill passed. It was a bill to OK the sale of some federal property to the Galveston historical society. Apparently there was an old custom house or something and the Galveston Historical Society wanted to keep it intact rather than repurposing it. He sponsored at least 468 bills and managed to get one of them passed. Also he signed on as a co-sponsor to several bills that passed, such as the establishment of National Seafood Month (yes, really).

However, regardless of how you slice it, Ron Paul has the lowest efficiency of any congressman in the history of the nation. Yes, there were congressmen who passed no bills at all. But those people tended to be folks who died in office or something. Not congressmen who served for over a decade.

Interestingly, most of the darlings of the Right are shockingly ineffective as congressman. Crazy Eyes Bachmann passed only four bullshit bills, and Paul Ryan only passed two.

-Username17

Ted the Flayer · Post by **Ted the Flayer** » Mon Nov 19, 2012 4:23 am

I stand corrected on the statement about him not passing any bills. I am standing firm on him not having ideas that would benefit me or anyone I know.

DSMatticus · Post by **DSMatticus** » Mon Nov 19, 2012 4:34 am

Ted wrote:I am standing firm on him not having ideas that would benefit me or anyone I know.

He has a handful of positions where he sounds great until he explains himself. For example, he's against the War on Drugs. That's good. It's expensive, and it puts a lot of nonviolent criminals in jail, which is also expensive. The reason is because he is against the federal government doing anything at all, and he would rather let the states decide to wage somewhere between zero and fifty separate Wars on Drugs. That is a very stupid way to do a very stupid thing.