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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
My point was that you were talking about it without having knowledge about it. Are you on Facebook? Now I have no idea.
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Yes. Yes, yes, yes.
Fuck. I've been on it for half a decade. It's not a mystery; it's proletariat stream of consciousness with a few self-important talented assholes on top. Charlie Sheen included. It's endless wedding and baby pictures, rants about their jobs (some of which get them fired), snaps of their new car (A gold Nissan? Really?) and vacations to places so trite it's like late night TV. Maybe something hosted by Gilbert Godfried. Oh, look... they're by the Hollywood sign. See? I get the nature of "structure" (easy to use input GUI to speed along the data mining for a "free site" that does God knows what with your input) and how "it is what we make it." Most users make it what it is: a glimpse into our vain, materialistic culture that is completely out of touch with... (insert Roachboy diatribe). Facebook is a mental McDonald's, Baraka. Social junk food for the masses. You can't polish that turd.
The same shit that was on MySpace; the same shit that'll be on Google+, although Google+ seems to feature the precursor design structures (what's the reverse of a vestigial organ?) that may evolve into a more forum-like discussion with out-of-primary-circle individuals (strangers!) depending on whether or not Joe Prole is actually even interested in talk. Hell, I'm a total moron prole and I'm leery of anything that tries to introduce strangers into my life because I typed in "I love zombie movies" in my profile or whatever. Then again, how personal does it get? It's a weird balance, I'd imagine. It has to have some personal ties or it turns into drivel. Reddit is a prime example of what happens when you take away the name and face of people in a discussion setting: oral diarrhea. As has been shown since Usenet newsgroups started back in the dark ages: Anonymity leads to stupidity.
/hot garbage
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Originally Posted by Baraka_KungFu
My feed consists largely of the technorati on one hand and the literati on the other. It has a very low moron quotient. A lot of these guys are writing and publishing poems and novels in an age when the average high school student struggles to write a single sentence without destroying their native language.
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Hey, that's great. Giving 500 people a paint brush gets you 2 masterpieces and 498 parakeet cage liners.
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Originally Posted by Baraka_GooRu
"Structure for morons" doesn't make sense to me. What's moronic about making social connections? Do you hate telephone and email technology as well? I mean, morans use those too.
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Did you just say Mormons?
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Originally Posted by Baraka_VooDoo
And why do you post here? Lots of morons use forums, you know.
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Because
I'm a moron. Did you somehow miss the 1,238,483,765 times I've said it since that June I joined? I wasn't kidding.
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Originally Posted by Baraka_WhoDo?
Are we all just morons?
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That's way too existential for 1300. Hit me up in a few hours.