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Originally Posted by Gander
I didnt say Facebook was going anywhere. I said hoped.
I just enjoyed day to day interaction a lot more before all this tech stuff took over everybody's lives. Kids dont play sports anymore. Teenagers would rather have internet chat sex than the real thing in the back of their car.
Adults are spending hours on end on facebook letting everybody know what drink they are mixing or who they saw at the high scholl reunion. Who the hell cares?
You guys can have all the gadgets and social networking web sites. I'd rather put these toys down and go have drinks (real liquid drinks, not icons) with my friends and look at real actual people.
Call me a scrooge all you want. Thats just me.
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First of all, this assumption that one can't screw around on Facebook during the day and then go socialize at night is ridiculous. Secondly, Facebook and the like
promote in-person socialization, they don't discourage it. I've hung out
(and had liquid drinks!) with a bunch of people I wouldn't normally have ever seen again because we connected on Facebook.
The constant status updates of course get silly, and I don't see the need for regular people to have Twitter, but I think acting like that has some correlation to whether or not people have social lives is trite and wrongheaded. As is this "you nerds can e-chat or whatever all day, but unlike you I'd rather go see some real humans and breathe some real air, DORKS" attitude.
I also don't know what the hell text messaging has to do with Facebook or Twitter.
Sorry Tim, no personal offense, but technophobes crack me up.