posted January 05, 2014 07:09 PM            

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Originally posted by Odette:
But that's only if the E-Boogie Monster doesn't get you first.

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posted January 05, 2014 07:11 PM            

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Originally posted by Odette:
Siri isn't a bad boy so I don't interact with Siri.

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posted January 05, 2014 07:25 PM            

Sorry - which thread am I on again?

posted January 05, 2014 07:26 PM            

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Originally posted by PixieJane:
And though I get his points on how face to face is much better for communicating I don't think that's why people commit suicide. Suicide has been a serious problem in Japan since at least the 70s. And suicide has been common for a long time everywhere, no internet required and all the face to face a person could handle...perhaps too much of it.

And I don't think people would get too into the internet without enough human contact unless they were prone to that anyway. The new generation is completely plugged in, I think they interact more online (including phones) than off but they're not deprived zombies. The real problem is actually that the net has facilitated socialization to the point that rumor campaigns are much more devastating now because it alerts everyone instantly how to treat a person and how to barrage a bullied victim when the victim normally would be able to escape (if only for a little while). And seeing the human face of a bullied victim isn't going to stop that cyberbullying it only opens the door to more abuse and even violence (which might be recorded on cam to show off to others).

That said, the current generation is no worse than the generations before it, the narcissism of the older generations that always says otherwise notwithstanding.

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Ah, not to drag another thread into all of this, it does strike me that the conditions are EVEN more oppressive for such a campaign against someone who perhaps had sex with "someone they knew was with so and so"

Which boils down to is a vast communication network able to overcome such campaigns that deal with the more basal things in human nature?

posted January 05, 2014 07:28 PM            

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Originally posted by Odette:
I know other people are having problems in this world baby cakes.. But my problem is that I'm a really really nice girl and no one likes me.
I'm soooo flipping nice all the time so why doesn't anyone like me?
And then they try to grab my genitals in clubs and they try to have sex with me but they don't really like me.
They are all like this.
It's just too much.

Sorry - which thread am I on again?

Oh well nvm. I'm pretty sure every single thread is about me anyway.

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posted January 05, 2014 07:35 PM            

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Originally posted by Odette:
The person you are referring to - I did read her post and I did not reply intentionally.
As our grandmothers taught us all: when you have nothing nice to say - don't say anything at all.
So I am zipping it.
I have nothing to add to what Randall said to this poster.
Not one thing.

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Well, did not know, good.

Playful banter aside of course

As for the larger picture, when in college I took the usual boring mkting classes, and studied word of mouth mkting.

This is the danger of the 'net, it allows leveraging of an opinion leaders well..opinion.

posted January 05, 2014 07:39 PM            

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Originally posted by Odette:
Thank you for the spelling lessons Mr Gibberish

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Eh, has kept me out of a lot of trouble through the years..Saggie and all that.

IDK, maybe I'm seeing the mix b/t electronic communications and internal thought blurring to an extent that people wind up disappointed or meglomaniacs or outkasts

All in real time of course

posted January 05, 2014 07:50 PM            

Lesbian phone tree (one shows her frustration by using lots of profanity):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA4CkD2p8hk

By the end that achieved the status of art.

posted January 05, 2014 08:33 PM            

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Originally posted by StarlightSmileSupreme:
Although that forest endures sad circumstance, I am watching the video link now and I love the way it looks! Not trying to make light of it but it would be fun to play Star Wars Return Of The Jedi in a forest like that! I seriously wonder if that's where the idea for Endor came from?

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It looks like that where we live (a bit of a rainforest). We live here because we feel that being connected to the earth is really important for us, on a spiritual level.

I've always been like that, though.
But I do feel as though spending too much time on the internet (even having interesting conversations like we do here...sometimes) distracts me from that.

I have some other articles I will post later when I have time. For now, we've opted to try to seriously limit our internet time permanently, as well as the television being on. So we've been outside (in the cold) running and kicking the ball with our son, and now we're sitting inside with a nice warm fire, just...playing. Without distraction.

I think that's what it amounts to for me. It's like we have become so accustomed to being distracted that we cannot simply be.

posted January 05, 2014 08:35 PM            

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Originally posted by Ellynlvx:
No, seriously; Violets,

if you let this talk spoil our friendship with your constant guilty pleasure vibes, I am going to have to cut you off the in-real-life distractions that keep you from visiting with me.

So.

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Nothing can keep me from you, wonderful Ellyn!

posted January 05, 2014 08:46 PM            

I LIKE NETFLIX.

It's what you want when you want.

posted January 05, 2014 08:50 PM            

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Originally posted by Ellynlvx:
Except that horrible, horrible lurking-in-the-shadows concept they innocently label "FAMILY TIME."

AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!.....

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posted January 05, 2014 08:55 PM            

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Originally posted by teasel:
I like a certain amount of internet time, but I think it can be destructive, too. I felt better over the holidays, because things were better between me and my parents, and we were actually spending time together, watching movies, having something to eat, etc.

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posted January 05, 2014 09:22 PM            

OTOH, it might get my mom (her daughter) to visit, at least if I ever give in to my temptations to have her watch a couple of YT vids to comment on them. And those two don't get along well, perhaps it's best if they stay apart...And my cousin would probably send me a bunch of Jackass type vids asking me to record my expression (so he could laugh) as I watched it ("Oh, nice, but newsflash, cousin: everyone already knows about 2 girls, 1 cup, you can't trick me so easily").