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Seems like texing, facebooking, and myspacing has led some people to become social retards in a way. In the real world you dont get five to ten minutes to come up with an appropriate response in a social situation........
I have a lot of friends who live in places that are a days drive or more away from me. Myspace and facebook are good ways for us to stay in touch, and be a normal part of one anothers lives. However, I do have friends here as well, and we never use myspace. We do text, a lot, and email periodically, but we always get together a couple of times a month.
The problem is when your online life becomes the only life you have. I struggle with this and my job, as my job is very tech oriented. I find myself doing work, off the clock, at odd hours on the weekend.
Seems like texing, facebooking, and myspacing has led some people to become social retards in a way. In the real world you dont get five to ten minutes to come up with an appropriate response in a social situation........
There is a difference between "making" someone a social retard, and "accommodating" someone who is already a social retard.
Is a person who can't see that difference a "mental retard"? Why is it PC to call someone a social retard, but not OK to call someone a mental retard?
Look how many millions of people have abandoned their "real life" friends, in favor of a new kind of socialization. Is this because "real life" friends are completely burdensome louts that most people hate putting up with and being obligated to? Maybe it's all our friends who are "social retards", and not the people who have blown them off.
I discovered, in the decade before the Internet, that the answering machine was more destructive to social relationships than the internet ever became. I gave up trying to have friends, because I could not call them on the phone. All I could do was leave them a message. When they called back, they got my answering machine. The internet improved upon that---now I can leave a message that contains all the articles of friendship communications.
Seems like texing, facebooking, and myspacing has led some people to become social retards in a way. In the real world you dont get five to ten minutes to come up with an appropriate response in a social situation........
Kind of off topic but a lot of my ex friends are ex friends because they spent too much time on the internet.
For the most part I find those sites to be distasteful - time sucking distractions that open up a pandora's box of fractured relationships and temptations. Yes, that exists in "real life" and on in the internet in general, but it seems hyper-concentrated, reinforced, and even condoned at the social networking sites. Too much of a not-so-good thing, IMO.
I heard it say that the information you give on these sites can be used against you at some point. So that doesn't make these sites very attractive to me.
I don't know, let's see, the last three nights I:
1. got some friends together to go bowling
2. went to a friend's party
3. went to a concert and hung out with some people there ...
all thanks to facebook's fancy little event scheduler. it's an easy way to get people together to do "real life" things and know who's going to be there...
but, you know, the internet's "teh bad and scary!"
Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, and whatever else lurks out there
Lets discuss
It all depends on how you use them.
My wife & I are on Facebook, primarily for the purpose of communication with our grown children. It has also been wonderful to re-connect with tons of high school and college friends - all of whom, mysteriously, are starting to look pretty danged old!
On the other hand, there are a LOT of young people who put FAR too much personal information on their sites. I can't help but think these aren't a pedophile's dream come true.
They cater to the ego, and often attract all the wrong people. It can be a huge waste of time. Some people want to be "sought after" but they need to be careful what they wish for. 90% of the new people on the friend list won't be around in a year, and most of them wouldn't bail you out in a pinch. It's all too "high schoolish." I have a life without any of those "ME ME" sites.
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