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Re: Game over man: Facebook to "lock in" users for life
I work with teenagers, I have not see anything that shows this. This technology is just another add-on to our lives which we did not have before, like radio, like TV, like Nintendo and like computers.
Better team up with Tipper Gore and fight those nasty lyrics!!:haha:
Strange considering I've been working with kids for 16 years as a coach and 3 of my really good friends including my best friend are all teachers(2 highschool and 1 junior high) and all three agree with the things I've just said. There's a legit reason why cell phones are starting to become banned in many schools and trust me it's not because teachers are worried about kids calling one and other. That would never happen 
Your mock joke about Tipper Gore and nasty lyrics says to me the actual seriousness of all this is completely lost on you.
Things like radio, televison and even nintendo were al so one dimensional. This stuff isn't man. It's becoming all encompasing and for those paying attention it's more than obvious how it's starting to consume huge numbers of people. Normal people.
Re: Game over man: Facebook to "lock in" users for life
It also reminds me a bit of the day when live TV sports first came on the scene. There were major discussions around it because people thought no one would ever bother coming to the actual event since it was live on TV. Why bother going when you can see it live in your own house right?
Or when the first travel documentaries came on the air. The travel agencies were scared shitless as they thought no one would bother travel to actual places any longer since they could watch all the exotic places on TV.
I remember one grandmother visiting my junior high being extremely upset over our entertainment for the day, as we did several songs...in English. She later wrote to the local newspaper with extreme worries that the kids of today would loose their own language and within a few years only speak English.
Just fucking relax about it grandmas and grandpas, texting and the ability to communicate with texting is an add-on. There will be victims to this, as it has been victims to too much TV watching, too much Nintendo playing, too much this and too much that. It won't dumb anything down and if Sally broke up with Steve, who's to say this person would have cared at all if it wasn't for that text. I know I wouldn't. I wouldn't call everyone I know wishing them happy birthday, I would just call my three closest friends. Now, everyone on my FB list to a certain extent gets a happy birthday from me. My Facebook has actually increased my social network, not decreased. I hang out and talk to people now I would never have re-connected with if it wasn't for Facebook.
I agree with the fact facebook has allowed me to recconect with people I otherwise would not have as well. That is a positive but honestly dude people who thought nobody would travel because they could watch the exotic places on tv instead are fucking idiots plain and simple. That's the dumbest shit I have ever heard 
It's not even close to the same thing let alone in the same realm of discussion really. People are bullied over facebook and texting these days. That shit didn't happen with tv's and radios. There was no interaction with those outlets. they were simply entertainment vehciles. Facebook and texting are not solely those. They are a means of communicating. Sometimes positve, sometimes negative but in my opinion it's a pretty dangerous thing to scoff at the negative side as if it's a non issue.
Don't gte me wrong I enjoy facebook and texting but when normal people start feeling the need to document everything online and start feeling the need to live an online life that's dangerous over time. The scary part is more and more completely normal and sane people are feeling these things and how they present themselves on them is a neccesity to life and it is contributing to a lack of actual human interaction. It's in it's infacy really and this stuff can have a huge positive impact but the huge negative impact that can come with it is very very real.
- christina_rose
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Re: Game over man: Facebook to "lock in" users for life
I know I've been guilty of the "did you see what I posted on Facebook" more than once. Relying strictly on Facebook for communication though is really sad IMO. The whole "well I posted it on Facebook", it's like, yeah that's great. I have a life/job, I can't exactly check the Internet every ten seconds. A quick text or phone call to alert me to whatever this news is you obvioisly want me to see wouldn't kill you. I think if it's used the right way it can be a positive tool. For example, I moved pretty far front the rest of my family. So I do use Facebook to post pictures and to keep up with my friends back where I moved from. It helps me feel connected instead of like I'm missing out on things. But I do agree that some people rely too heavily on it. Making a phone call to talk to someone is becoming a foreign concept. Its all just text, email, or Facebook.
- monkeychow
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Re: Game over man: Facebook to "lock in" users for life
I've been in a situation where me and my buddies are sitting around having beers and everyone(myself excluded cause I refuse to do it) is talking to someone else not in the room. Nobody lives in the in the moment anymore. It's always more important to text someone rather than give your attention to the person you are actually with at the time.
Actually, although i disagree in general with the fears in this thread...I have noticed this phenomenon you just mentioned.
Like if I go visit my mum and I'm getting texts from people I work with. Then I'm working with them and I'm getting texts from my mum. Or like if you're out with the guys and you're girl is texting, or out with your girl and the guys are sending you shit.
Sometimes it makes more sense if everyone would just shut up and pay attention to who they are actually standing with
Re: Game over man: Facebook to "lock in" users for life
They've begun to design social media structures in the same way games like WOW are. The basic idea is to get you addicted. God knows porn can be addictive too, this is just another set of bastards willing to abuse our knowledge of human addiction psychology to make $$$.
Sickening...yes. but if you can find a way to manage those addictions (and they are addictions), you get all the pleasure and none of the pain.
@Russ: Creed are already back. Rejoice.
