Right? "OMG, I'm going to lose my shit if I have to sit in another stupid Zoom call. Let me log on to my audio chat room so I can bitch about it to my friends that I've never met."
I had to look up this clubhouse thing...I don't do social media so I wasn't familiar with this.
So, this is basically a "party line" type thing, right?
LOL, I remember back as a kid, when we only had landlines.
There was a number we found you could dial and I guess it was a trunk line service folks used, but you could get a bunch of people on there, and we kids took it over, would chat all the time on it, never knew who was there, etc....met some new friends and a couple of cute girls that way.
I had to look up this clubhouse thing...I don't do social media so I wasn't familiar with this.
So, this is basically a "party line" type thing, right?
Honestly, I have no idea. I didn't read past the summary, but that seems to be about it. Another place for self-important "media personalities" to broadcast their drivel.
"Excuse me newly elected senator....I have something I'd like for you to listen too from your teen years, before we discuss my new appointment."
My own Facebook history likely has enough cringe on it that I've already exempted myself from public service. It's the only social media I participate in, and I've only been on the platform for a relatively small portion of my life. With the multitudes of platforms, and having been posting since they knew how to write, I can't imagine ho
I'm so glad this stuff wasn't around in my teens and early twenties. All the dumb shit I did as a teenager is only vaguely recalled by my friends and I.
I'll go one step further.
I"m SO glad I grew up before cell phones where EVERYONE has a fscking camera all the time.
We'd not have had nearly so much fun if there were the risk of a picture somewhere, or a CCD camera somewhere....not to mentioned having our parents track our every move via our phones, etc.
It was nice growing up in an age of plausible denia
Is it just me, or are most people not having real friends anymore, it's all about having the highest number of fake virtual friends, likes, ratings and all that gamified nonsense that's not worth anything of real human value?
Millenials were born in this batshit crazy world. To them, this is normal. Similar to kids growing up in war-torn countries, playing and laughing in devasted streets and buildings. Humans are resilient, at least on the surface. But deep down inside, the damage is very real.
But hey, what do I know. I'm just an old man yelling at Amazon clouds.
No, people are pushed into this. Don't blame the kids.
We got, sadly, physical proof that if you raise children in a lightlesd basement, naked, on the floor, eating out of dog bowls, they will think that's just normal and never wonder if that may be weird. (I still remember the pictures from Romania.)
The main problem with people nowadays... us too... is an extremely exaggerated anxiety. Everyone is constantly afraid of everything. That is why some people hate foreigners, gays, whatever. Why they want to "con
Is it just me, or are most people not having real friends anymore,
It seems that way, and it really hurts with young men trying to get women.
If you are a standout young man today where you actually know how to talk to people in meatspace AND will approach women, you have a leg up on about 98% of your competition regardless of bank account.
Hell, it even makes it easy for us old guys to pick from the younger of the female herd, as that their peer level men don't know and have actual real social interaction
Everything's gonna be a 3D open-world RPG with crafting and collectibles and microtransactions.
Every service is gonna be everything everyone else is.
Until they realize that they got nothing of value over anyone else, and in a sane world, it would be one set of open protocols with various open-source client and server modules with no duplication that's costing us all, no ads (since no value means no pay), and probably way more (optional) and nicer functions that actually exist for the user.
But hey, it's nice
The rich get rich, and the poor get poorer.
The haves get more, the have-nots die.
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So, this is basically a "party line" type thing, right?
LOL, I remember back as a kid, when we only had landlines.
There was a number we found you could dial and I guess it was a trunk line service folks used, but you could get a bunch of people on there, and we kids took it over, would chat all the time on it, never knew who was there, etc....met some new friends and a couple of cute girls that way.
They finally
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I had to look up this clubhouse thing...I don't do social media so I wasn't familiar with this.
So, this is basically a "party line" type thing, right?
Honestly, I have no idea. I didn't read past the summary, but that seems to be about it. Another place for self-important "media personalities" to broadcast their drivel.
"Excuse me newly elected senator....I have something I'd like for you to listen too from your teen years, before we discuss my new appointment."
My own Facebook history likely has enough cringe on it that I've already exempted myself from public service. It's the only social media I participate in, and I've only been on the platform for a relatively small portion of my life. With the multitudes of platforms, and having been posting since they knew how to write, I can't imagine ho
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I'll go one step further.
I"m SO glad I grew up before cell phones where EVERYONE has a fscking camera all the time.
We'd not have had nearly so much fun if there were the risk of a picture somewhere, or a CCD camera somewhere....not to mentioned having our parents track our every move via our phones, etc.
It was nice growing up in an age of plausible denia
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It was nice growing up in an age of plausible deniability.
Cheers to that.
I am too old or is the world getting crazy? (Score:4, Insightful)
Social Audio? WTF?
Is it just me, or are most people not having real friends anymore, it's all about having the highest number of fake virtual friends, likes, ratings and all that gamified nonsense that's not worth anything of real human value?
Re:I am too old or is the world getting crazy? (Score:4, Insightful)
Millenials were born in this batshit crazy world. To them, this is normal. Similar to kids growing up in war-torn countries, playing and laughing in devasted streets and buildings. Humans are resilient, at least on the surface. But deep down inside, the damage is very real.
But hey, what do I know. I'm just an old man yelling at Amazon clouds.
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But then again, we are the ones making these services.
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No, people are pushed into this. Don't blame the kids.
We got, sadly, physical proof that if you raise children in a lightlesd basement, naked, on the floor, eating out of dog bowls, they will think that's just normal and never wonder if that may be weird. (I still remember the pictures from Romania.)
The main problem with people nowadays... us too... is an extremely exaggerated anxiety. Everyone is constantly afraid of everything. That is why some people hate foreigners, gays, whatever. Why they want to "con
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It seems that way, and it really hurts with young men trying to get women.
If you are a standout young man today where you actually know how to talk to people in meatspace AND will approach women, you have a leg up on about 98% of your competition regardless of bank account.
Hell, it even makes it easy for us old guys to pick from the younger of the female herd, as that their peer level men don't know and have actual real social interaction
So it's gonna be like games now ... (Score:1)
Everything's gonna be a 3D open-world RPG with crafting and collectibles and microtransactions.
Every service is gonna be everything everyone else is.
Until they realize that they got nothing of value over anyone else, and in a sane world, it would be one set of open protocols with various open-source client and server modules with no duplication that's costing us all, no ads (since no value means no pay), and probably way more (optional) and nicer functions that actually exist for the user.
But hey, it's nice