What happened to this place?
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Joined: Jan 2018
Posts: 12
From: Ottawa
Could it be that the novelty of the Internet is wearing off? Is it too synthetic a way for people to interact? (Maybe evolution has hard-wired us to prefer face-to-face communication.) Also, not everyone likes to write, and even the loquacious among us may become abrupt in their communicating when faced with having to write their thoughts. Writing does seem to be a dying art; look at Twitter, where you're forced to communicate in "sound bites." That probably suits most people.
No-one seems to write at length on Facebook, either. I joined Facebook a couple of months ago, and already I regret it. It's so artificial; the algorithms they use (for example, to suggest new "friends") are inane. I put the word friends in quotation marks because, really, Facebook has made a mockery of the meaning of "friend." I wish Zuckerberg would delete my account. (I've stopped checking in on it.) A lot of forums may be running out of steam, but I wouldn't bet on Facebook or similar sites lasting much longer, either. The negatives are starting to outweigh the (apparent) positives, and once people start realizing that having their egos massaged by "friends" on Facebook is a profoundly empty experience, they'll start turning off their computers and heading to the local pub to, you know, actually talk to real live people.
The Internet will remain useful as a research tool and a shopping alternative, but as a forum for socializing (if one can even truly socialize on the 'Net) I wouldn't be surprised if its days are numbered.
No-one seems to write at length on Facebook, either. I joined Facebook a couple of months ago, and already I regret it. It's so artificial; the algorithms they use (for example, to suggest new "friends") are inane. I put the word friends in quotation marks because, really, Facebook has made a mockery of the meaning of "friend." I wish Zuckerberg would delete my account. (I've stopped checking in on it.) A lot of forums may be running out of steam, but I wouldn't bet on Facebook or similar sites lasting much longer, either. The negatives are starting to outweigh the (apparent) positives, and once people start realizing that having their egos massaged by "friends" on Facebook is a profoundly empty experience, they'll start turning off their computers and heading to the local pub to, you know, actually talk to real live people.
The Internet will remain useful as a research tool and a shopping alternative, but as a forum for socializing (if one can even truly socialize on the 'Net) I wouldn't be surprised if its days are numbered.
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Joined: May 2009
Posts: 5,722
From: Maple Tree, Branch #2 above the rope swing
You'd never know it by looking at how many people would rather screw around on their stupid phones instead of talking to the person next to them.
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Joined: Nov 2013
Posts: 456
From: Nova Scotia
Many people today need the stroking they get from social media, they don't get it elsewhere.
Life is busy and folks don't want, don't have or just plain not interested in the time it takes
to build real relationships with people. Everything is here and now, New generation does not want
to work for it, they want it all quickly with no effort.
Life is busy and folks don't want, don't have or just plain not interested in the time it takes
to build real relationships with people. Everything is here and now, New generation does not want
to work for it, they want it all quickly with no effort.
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