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tl8
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xkcd says it all really
Turbinator
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And the link is: http://plus.google.com
Jarvitä
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I never really "got" facebook, myspace, twitter et al. People keep pestering me to join these 'social' sites, and I fail to see why, given that these are people I communicate with on a daily basis anyway, and I don't feel the need to share the minute details of my daily routine with the entire internet. I don't see how Google+ is any different, other than the fact that it's "not facebook" (why does that matter?). I (and, I can imagine, a lot of other people) prefer to keep my social life and my internet life as separate as possible.
Moach
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same here... :hesaid:
ppl always nag me that i should join... many times they are astounded that oh-so-geeky me isn't part of that whole toilet-blogger craze... i just don't get it... how is that of any value to our lives and culture? :focus:
there's nothing of knowledge value in those social nets - it's mostly knitting-room gossip (no offense to knitting enthusiasts intended)
plus, why does everyone suddenly feel there's a need to bother everyone with every random thought that bumps against a blog-happy neuron in their brains?
i think i do that enough around here anyways - and still, most of the time, here we actually HAVE something to talk about :lol:
Columbia42
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:hesaid: I totally agree. I don't have a facebook, twitter, or anything. I watch my friends spend hours on these sites participating in mindless chatter and generally failing to grasp the point of life. Not me, thank you very much.
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Part of me thinks this "social networking" crap is making people anti-social.
I nearly threw my daughters cell phone into the Mississippi River while we were on vacation last month. We're all sitting in a very nice eatery, enjoying nice food, music, etc. and every 15 seconds she's tap-tap-tapping away texting her friends at the table. And her phone etiquette is approaching horrible, down from mostly adequate. It takes her 45 minutes to text with her friends back and forth the same information that would take 45 seconds using voice. As much as she aggrivates me with her text messaging, she's not all that bad, but if she continues to text at the dinner table I'm going to see what the range of her phone really is. I'm guessing I can get at least 5 skips out of it before it sinks, but now that I'm back home I'll have to use the Hiwassee River instead of the Mississippi.
My sister-in-law had me proof-read a 5 page paper for her for a class she had last semester. She got mad at me when I tried to explain the use of an upper case "I" and overall punctuation. I'm not an English teacher, and my grammer may not be the best, but wow, just, wow... What she was wanting to submit was worse than awful.
I nearly threw my daughters cell phone into the Mississippi River while we were on vacation last month. We're all sitting in a very nice eatery, enjoying nice food, music, etc. and every 15 seconds she's tap-tap-tapping away texting her friends at the table. And her phone etiquette is approaching horrible, down from mostly adequate. It takes her 45 minutes to text with her friends back and forth the same information that would take 45 seconds using voice. As much as she aggrivates me with her text messaging, she's not all that bad, but if she continues to text at the dinner table I'm going to see what the range of her phone really is. I'm guessing I can get at least 5 skips out of it before it sinks, but now that I'm back home I'll have to use the Hiwassee River instead of the Mississippi.
My sister-in-law had me proof-read a 5 page paper for her for a class she had last semester. She got mad at me when I tried to explain the use of an upper case "I" and overall punctuation. I'm not an English teacher, and my grammer may not be the best, but wow, just, wow... What she was wanting to submit was worse than awful.
jedidia
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wait... she asks you to proof-read and then gets mad when you correct stuff? Talk about inconsistency...
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Huh?
Google ripping off an xkcd joke?
Or wait, they seriously making yet another socialist network and xkcd made a joke out of it?
Neither seems like a good idea, and Google is supposed to be intelligent!
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Google ripping off an xkcd joke?
Or wait, they seriously making yet another socialist network and xkcd made a joke out of it?
Neither seems like a good idea, and Google is supposed to be intelligent!
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Nothing inconsistent, IMHO, i've seen this pattern before - their words say asking-you-to-check-the-work, their thoughts say praise-me-for-this-great-accomplishment, and pointing mistakes confronts that.
Quick_Nick
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I'm a happy Facebooker. However, I rarely post anything myself. I just read friends' posts that are usually less about what they're doing, and are more like a forum such as this (posts about interesting topics, jokes, and common interests)
Also, my friends are AP students and can actually spell. I'm not going to text someone who is ruining their own mind with gossip and carelessness. I use my phone CONSTANTLY, but i'd like to think it's usually a positive thing. I never let my brain rot.
Also, my friends are AP students and can actually spell. I'm not going to text someone who is ruining their own mind with gossip and carelessness. I use my phone CONSTANTLY, but i'd like to think it's usually a positive thing. I never let my brain rot.
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Jarvitä
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The bolded one. Also, "socialist network" :rofl:
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Schematics for some peace and quiet:
tl8
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It should be pointed out that such things are illegal to operate without a permit from your respective Frequency Spectrum regulator.
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Even if you don't get the idea of social networks, I would encourage you to at least try Google+. I got an invite for Google+, and I am so far pretty impressed with it.
In many regards, it is a lot like Facebook (if you used Facebook, transitioning to Plus should be pretty easy). You can post links, photos, updates, locations, the whole shebang. However, something that I like about Plus is that before posting, it forces you to pick a 'Circle' of who will see the post. You can assign people to circles beforehand, and make as many as you like. By default, there are 'Friends', 'Family', 'Acquaintances', and 'Following'. Like I said, you can make more of these, and completely edit who goes in them. Having Google force you to pick a circle (or circles) who will see the post essentially solves the whole privacy debacle Facebook experienced. You can also have a post be viewable by all of your circles, extended circles (which are all of the people in your circles, plus all of those in their circles), and Public. The public option truly is public; it is index-able by search engines, and no login is required to view a public post. Having these circles is great; I can have all of my friends and family added, but also people that I don't talk with frequently, but would like to keep in touch with (perhaps other Orbinauts and the like),
Adding people to circles on Google+
Google+ is, in my opinion, an expansion of the Facebook idea, as they have added some nice new features. One of these is called 'Hangouts' which serves as a video chat client. You can add up to four people, I believe, to these video calls, and it also has a chat. For some reason, you can also view Youtube videos in this client, I don't know why :lol:. Another new feature is called 'Sparks', and seems to be a mix of 'Groups' on facebook, and following people on Twitter. They are mainly pages for interests, such as Cycling, Movies, Comics, etc. Adding an interest will make posts about or regarding that interest show up on your front page. It's really quite handy, if I do say so myself.
A view of the 'Sparks' page
All in all, I wouldn't think of Google+ as just another Facebook. While it does have all of the latter's features, it also has so much more. It really combines Skype, Facebook, and Twitter into one convenient service. I would recommend checking it out, even if you aren't the Facebook type; you might be pleasantly surprised.
With all that high praise of it, I would like to add that since it's essentially devoid of people right now, there's no point in using it unless it is to invite more people :lol:. Once more people are on, it will truly shine, I think.
In many regards, it is a lot like Facebook (if you used Facebook, transitioning to Plus should be pretty easy). You can post links, photos, updates, locations, the whole shebang. However, something that I like about Plus is that before posting, it forces you to pick a 'Circle' of who will see the post. You can assign people to circles beforehand, and make as many as you like. By default, there are 'Friends', 'Family', 'Acquaintances', and 'Following'. Like I said, you can make more of these, and completely edit who goes in them. Having Google force you to pick a circle (or circles) who will see the post essentially solves the whole privacy debacle Facebook experienced. You can also have a post be viewable by all of your circles, extended circles (which are all of the people in your circles, plus all of those in their circles), and Public. The public option truly is public; it is index-able by search engines, and no login is required to view a public post. Having these circles is great; I can have all of my friends and family added, but also people that I don't talk with frequently, but would like to keep in touch with (perhaps other Orbinauts and the like),
Adding people to circles on Google+
Google+ is, in my opinion, an expansion of the Facebook idea, as they have added some nice new features. One of these is called 'Hangouts' which serves as a video chat client. You can add up to four people, I believe, to these video calls, and it also has a chat. For some reason, you can also view Youtube videos in this client, I don't know why :lol:. Another new feature is called 'Sparks', and seems to be a mix of 'Groups' on facebook, and following people on Twitter. They are mainly pages for interests, such as Cycling, Movies, Comics, etc. Adding an interest will make posts about or regarding that interest show up on your front page. It's really quite handy, if I do say so myself.
A view of the 'Sparks' page
All in all, I wouldn't think of Google+ as just another Facebook. While it does have all of the latter's features, it also has so much more. It really combines Skype, Facebook, and Twitter into one convenient service. I would recommend checking it out, even if you aren't the Facebook type; you might be pleasantly surprised.
With all that high praise of it, I would like to add that since it's essentially devoid of people right now, there's no point in using it unless it is to invite more people :lol:. Once more people are on, it will truly shine, I think.
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If anyone has any, a Google+ invite would be appreciated. 
When I was growing up, we had something similar to the 'Hangouts' feature. It was called....hanging out. 4 or 5 people just got together, spend time talking, catching up, watching a video/movie/tv show together, played video games together.
Don't misunderstand me, I use Facebook daily, but my original purpose for using FB was to share pics and news about my daughter's health while she was in the hospital, and eventually grew to showing pics of her progress in overcoming some of her health issues & sharing news about her daily achievements. As a side-effect, I made contact with some old friends from school, and began sharing pics/articles/videos from the Internet with them. I mostly just use FB these days to post links to tech articles I find interesting, or, occasionally a news clip or local story. But as a method of socializing with my friends? Absolutely not. If I want to socialize with my friends, I'll actually socialize.
I agree with PhantomCruiser. If anything, these sites are making people more antisocial, and also, people don't care about grammar and etiquette when they post, especially if they text frequently. More and more, this spills over into their daily conversation, and eventually their professional or social life, and degrades the face-to-face conversations of most to nothing more than "Did you hear about xyz? OMG!"
Don't misunderstand me, I use Facebook daily, but my original purpose for using FB was to share pics and news about my daughter's health while she was in the hospital, and eventually grew to showing pics of her progress in overcoming some of her health issues & sharing news about her daily achievements. As a side-effect, I made contact with some old friends from school, and began sharing pics/articles/videos from the Internet with them. I mostly just use FB these days to post links to tech articles I find interesting, or, occasionally a news clip or local story. But as a method of socializing with my friends? Absolutely not. If I want to socialize with my friends, I'll actually socialize.
I agree with PhantomCruiser. If anything, these sites are making people more antisocial, and also, people don't care about grammar and etiquette when they post, especially if they text frequently. More and more, this spills over into their daily conversation, and eventually their professional or social life, and degrades the face-to-face conversations of most to nothing more than "Did you hear about xyz? OMG!"
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I took ages to get on Facebook because I didn't see the point in it. Everyone moaned at me because I wasn't on facebook because they couldn't chat with me (that's why I see them in person and they have my phone number), or they wanted to send me a message (that's why they have my email address) or wanted to know what I was up to (that's why we are friends and they should try to meet up with me in person or phone for a chat or even just email me). Eventually a friend of mine put me on facebook and updated it as if it were me for a year or two. Then he got a job at Google, got all uppity at the privacy concerns of Facebook (aah, the irony) and closed his account. He's now on Google+ and has sent me an invite to that. I see the whole cycle repeating itself.
Any social network is only as good as its user base.
Any social network is only as good as its user base.
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I only use facebook to communicate with 'Harry'
He's like 8 hours away, in Canada, so seeing him in person is impossible.
And the international call rates are like $50 an hour! :blink:
He's like 8 hours away, in Canada, so seeing him in person is impossible.
And the international call rates are like $50 an hour! :blink:
ky
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So are my friends.Well some of them.I've been in the gifted program since 1st grade.Now going to High School, im probably being put into AP classes.About Facebook,I have one too.I sometimes don't care what time people go to the bathroom, or eat dinner, or what their doing, when their doing it, every time they do it.Sometimes it just gets some annoying.Other things,well Thats just my business.:lol:
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