Am I the only one who has never used any social media site? - Page 3

*Prowler* · 11-01-2014, 12:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Leo656

I can totally see how some people legit need and/or can benefit from those things for work, but I'm pretty sure most people are just playing "Internet Celebrity".

Anybody you know ever brag about FB Likes in real-life conversation? What's the acceptable protocol for that situation? Do you hit them? I'm pretty sure it's allowed, in that context, to not only hit them, but actually damage them. If not, then it should be.

Not that I have noticed it. But some people sure are obsessed over it. I remember fondly the time when people didn't want to get photographed. Now, in any public place, you see people taking pictures or selfies.

Speaking of FB friends, it's silly how some people will add you as a friend, like your posts etc... but won't even greet you when they walk past you in the corridor. What the hell?

*TheBlueTurtle1* · 11-01-2014, 01:00 PM

You are not alone, I don't have accounts on these sites. A lot of people from my past I don't actually want to see again. Anyone I keep in contact with, I do the normal way, Face to face.

I think they are so in-personal and just not for me, but like you said i started to use the internet late as well. Around 1999-2000, so maybe I am not as clued up on it all as some

*CyberCubed* · 11-01-2014, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Prowler

Speaking of FB friends, it's silly how some people will add you as a friend, like your posts etc... but won't even greet you when they walk past you in the corridor. What the hell?

People don't like face to face interaction anymore. Normal human interaction is currently at the bare minimum. Its the same reason people would rather respond to e-mails or online posts rather than talk on the phone like they are used to.

We are all, "slaves to the machine" in the modern era of today's youthful society. I shudder to think what things will be like in the year 2020 and beyond.

*Prowler* · 11-01-2014, 07:14 PM

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Originally Posted by CyberCubed

People don't like face to face interaction anymore. Normal human interaction is currently at the bare minimum. Its the same reason people would rather respond to e-mails or online posts rather than talk on the phone like they are used to.

We are all, "slaves to the machine" in the modern era of today's youthful society. I shudder to think what things will be like in the year 2020 and beyond.

It's as if all they want is to show off the size of their friend list. If you're gonna add someone, at least have the decency of greeting or talking to said person in real life. I can understand being more talkative and open on the internet than in real life, but not even acknowledging you when you walk past them just shows how much they actually care about you. They just see you as a number to increase their friend list. They're usually the kind of people who get upset when someone removes them from their friend list.

And I thought I was social awkward when I was younger. I shudder to think what I'd be like if I was a kid/teenager in this era.

Honestly, despite not being as old as some of you here(i was born in 1990), I kinda miss the late 90s sometimes. Sure, technology wasn't as good as it is today, but we didn't take things for granted. You actually had to make an effort to get something you sought after. Nowadays you can get many video games, tv shows, etc. from the internet in a matter of minutes, but that wide selection and availability has spoiled us a lot, in my opinion.

*CyberCubed* · 11-01-2014, 08:36 PM

I remember back in the 90's and early 2000's always being worried if I missed my favorite show on TV since you were usually out of luck until reruns came around.

Nowadays you don't have to watch anything when it airs on TV anymore, its on the internet usually by the end of the day even if its illegal.

*Mzx10484* · 11-02-2014, 04:41 AM

Therefore the binding force of TV decreases. In my childhood and youth, TV was the dominant medium. Today, everybody can choose his program. And any people who would have never made it to television (not meeting the criteria) make it through Youtube in a kind of public, without a threshold to overcome. So many individual uses pathetic attempt to gain a little attention

I have no FB account, I don't use Skype etc ..... I write emails.

*Wesley* · 11-02-2014, 02:46 PM

Fun fact, I don't have a mobile phone. Anyway, I have only used Bebo and Facebook over the years. I'm glad that Facebook wasn't around decades ago, because there is too much information on the website for teenagers to understand. It's more suited for adults. I only have about 50 Facebook friends and that's enough I think. Facebook has its good and bad points. There are too many ads, though. It is a great way of finding out info about people such as their favourite music, tv shows, etc. It's also a great way of keeping in contact with old school friends or people who have emigrated. It's funny that in the days before Facebook, only close friends and family could look at photos of people they knew and now any "friend" can look at photos of people they supposedly "know".

*chrisdude* · 11-02-2014, 03:22 PM

Kind of depends on your social circles, doesn't it? My friends and I communicate via Facebook on a daily basis. Chatting, sending each other links throughout the day, and as a replacement for text messaging. Could we do all that via email and text? Sure. But Facebook is what my friends use.

If you've never used Facebook, either the people you know don't use it (In which case, so what?), or you've just been saying no to people for years and years. It's like refusing to get a SMS plan.

I prefer twitter, as it can be tailored to my interests, and I'm not socially obligated to connect with co-workers, old classmates, etc. I use it to keep up with all my favorite musicians and bands, so I can keep up with all their releases, music videos, televised performances, etc. You could do the same thing with news, sports, movies - literally anything you're into. Following is one-way, so you don't end up with a feed full of worthless stuff. And it's an easy way to connect people of similar interests.

And, hey, even if a lot of what gets posted on these sites is frivolous and insignificant, they are the very things people hold real conversations about. What you're doing this weekend, what you dressed up as for Halloween, where you ate last night, the way your baby rattled off every word it knew until you picked her up - That's the same stuff people share, face-to-face. It's just a different way to talk. Life goes on. Social networks are full of adults, now, liking and LOLing, and kids are growing up in it. All that talk about kids not being able to function in the "real world" isn't the case. The real world just changes with them.

*ssjup81* · 11-02-2014, 09:37 PM

I've never spoken about FB offline and I don't think I've ever come across a person who talks about the amount of friends they have either. Never would've come to my mind.

The only time people talk about Facebook offline with me is when they're asking if we can be FB buddies to begin with.

One of my students' mother found me on Facebook while I was in the hospital. I didn't know the person, though and then I finally read it and realized it was my four-year-old student's mother. She'd used a Japanese/English translator and I told her typing in Japanese was ok. They wanted to visit me because her daughter was super worried about me and really wanted to see me. Adorable, isn't it?

So, outside of those I've met through games (like when I used to play Priston Tale) or those from the Do As Infinity forum who I haven't met face-to-face yet (one has finally moved to Japan, but missed out on meeting when I visited Kyoto back in August) or other board members of other forums, mostly consists of those I've met face-to-face at some point. The majority of my friends list, I think, consists of former coworkers and former classmates from elementary/middle/high school.

As a matter of fact, a few years ago FB did help me find my old friend who I'd lost touch with back in 2001. We used to talk a lot back then and we didn't see one another as much after we graduated high-school (even though we'd known each other since elementary). Due to some unfortunate circumstances, he enlisted into the service. He was stationed, but I didn't know where and he'd misplaced my e-mail just like I had his because prior to e-mail, we'd just talk on the phone. I sent him a long e-mail that one time, and I got a mailer daemon saying the address was wrong, meaning I'd copied it down wrong right before he left.

Back in about 2008, or somewhere around there, I don't know how, but I saw his name was on FB. I asked to friend him and we started talking again. He'd told me how he'd been stationed in Japan and how, at the time, he was now stationed in Hawaii. We exchanged phone numbers (he said he'd lost my number during that time) and we started talking a lot (despite the large time difference between Virginia and Hawaii). He then was stationed in Korea when I moved to Japan so we used Skype a lot because we were finally back in the same time zone. For Christmas that year, we video chatted while drinking wine. lol

So yeah, this is an instance where I was grateful for Facebook. I could reconnect to my old friend. ^_^

*Netkeeper* · 11-02-2014, 10:16 PM

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Originally Posted by CyberCubed

I remember back in the 90's and early 2000's always being worried if I missed my favorite show on TV since you were usually out of luck until reruns came around.

Nowadays you don't have to watch anything when it airs on TV anymore, its on the internet usually by the end of the day even if its illegal.

Oh yeah, that's so awful.

*CyberCubed* · 11-02-2014, 11:47 PM

I used to have a stack of VHS tapes recording shows to rewatch again and again.

DVDs were also extremely expensive in the early 2000's. Remember how they used to just release 3 episodes on DVD and sell it for $20? That was insane, 3 measly episodes would cost you $20 on DVD.

*Cure* · 11-03-2014, 12:05 AM

This thread should just be renamed "Back in MYYY day".

*Prowler* · 11-03-2014, 06:35 AM

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Originally Posted by CyberCubed

I used to have a stack of VHS tapes recording shows to rewatch again and again.

DVDs were also extremely expensive in the early 2000's. Remember how they used to just release 3 episodes on DVD and sell it for $20? That was insane, 3 measly episodes would cost you $20 on DVD.

I remember people buying PS2s just so they could own a cheap DVD player.

~~Leo656~~ · 11-03-2014, 09:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Prowler

I remember people buying PS2s just so they could own a cheap DVD player.

Right here, guy.

Although MGS2 was a pretty big selling-point, also.

*Whatswiththeheadbands?* · 11-03-2014, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Wesley

Fun fact, I don't have a mobile phone. Anyway, I have only used Bebo and Facebook over the years. I'm glad that Facebook wasn't around decades ago, because there is too much information on the website for teenagers to understand. It's more suited for adults. I only have about 50 Facebook friends and that's enough I think. Facebook has its good and bad points. There are too many ads, though. It is a great way of finding out info about people such as their favourite music, tv shows, etc. It's also a great way of keeping in contact with old school friends or people who have emigrated. It's funny that in the days before Facebook, only close friends and family could look at photos of people they knew and now any "friend" can look at photos of people they supposedly "know".

Up until a year ago, I didn't have a Mobile phone either. I don't even use it at all. In fact my phone hasn't been switched on for 4 days.

*BubblyShell22* · 11-03-2014, 12:54 PM

I got a cell phone in college because it was a good thing to have in case something happened and I needed to get in touch with my mom or something. Nowadays, I barely use it, but I'm still happy I have it.

As for social networking, I don't have any accounts on any of those sites, though I have debated about getting a Tumblr account to talk about my fave TV shows and the like. The tutoring job I want to get is via Facebook, so that's all I'll be using it for. My mom uses FB mostly to keep in touch with former co-workers and family members and to play games on. She never posts anything though.

*CyberCubed* · 11-03-2014, 02:38 PM

Am I the only one who remembers putting tokens into subway stations before Metro Cards were invented?

Back in my day we didn't even have plastic cards with money on them.

*plastroncafe* · 11-03-2014, 03:20 PM

Yes, the only one.

*TheCanadiandrome* · 11-03-2014, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Cure

This thread should just be renamed "Back in MYYY day".

haha, I rofl'd

*pennydreadful* · 11-03-2014, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Am I the only one who remembers putting tokens into subway stations before Metro Cards were invented?

Back in my day we didn't even have plastic cards with money on them.

I'm amazed you were modern enough to take the subway - surely you would've walked ten miles to get where you needed to go, uphill both ways, in the middle of a blizzard? And when you got home, you didn't put your clothes in the washing machine - you took 'em down to the river and beat them against the rocks.

And when you got sick, none of those fancy doctors, nosiree - you went and put leeches all over your body.

11-01-2014, 01:00 PM	#42
TheBlueTurtle1 Foot Elite Join Date: May 2012 Location: UK Posts: 2,892	You are not alone, I don't have accounts on these sites. A lot of people from my past I don't actually want to see again. Anyone I keep in contact with, I do the normal way, Face to face. I think they are so in-personal and just not for me, but like you said i started to use the internet late as well. Around 1999-2000, so maybe I am not as clued up on it all as some __________________ http://jandmdev.deviantart.com/ (My Brother and I have a dev page, I am J, brother is M)

11-02-2014, 02:46 PM	#47
Wesley Mad Scientist Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Republic of Ireland Posts: 1,597	Fun fact, I don't have a mobile phone. Anyway, I have only used Bebo and Facebook over the years. I'm glad that Facebook wasn't around decades ago, because there is too much information on the website for teenagers to understand. It's more suited for adults. I only have about 50 Facebook friends and that's enough I think. Facebook has its good and bad points. There are too many ads, though. It is a great way of finding out info about people such as their favourite music, tv shows, etc. It's also a great way of keeping in contact with old school friends or people who have emigrated. It's funny that in the days before Facebook, only close friends and family could look at photos of people they knew and now any "friend" can look at photos of people they supposedly "know". Last edited by Wesley; 11-02-2014 at 03:11 PM.

11-02-2014, 03:22 PM	#48
chrisdude Foot Elite Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: North Carolina Posts: 2,708	Kind of depends on your social circles, doesn't it? My friends and I communicate via Facebook on a daily basis. Chatting, sending each other links throughout the day, and as a replacement for text messaging. Could we do all that via email and text? Sure. But Facebook is what my friends use. If you've never used Facebook, either the people you know don't use it (In which case, so what?), or you've just been saying no to people for years and years. It's like refusing to get a SMS plan. I prefer twitter, as it can be tailored to my interests, and I'm not socially obligated to connect with co-workers, old classmates, etc. I use it to keep up with all my favorite musicians and bands, so I can keep up with all their releases, music videos, televised performances, etc. You could do the same thing with news, sports, movies - literally anything you're into. Following is one-way, so you don't end up with a feed full of worthless stuff. And it's an easy way to connect people of similar interests. And, hey, even if a lot of what gets posted on these sites is frivolous and insignificant, they are the very things people hold real conversations about. What you're doing this weekend, what you dressed up as for Halloween, where you ate last night, the way your baby rattled off every word it knew until you picked her up - That's the same stuff people share, face-to-face. It's just a different way to talk. Life goes on. Social networks are full of adults, now, liking and LOLing, and kids are growing up in it. All that talk about kids not being able to function in the "real world" isn't the case. The real world just changes with them. __________________ PSN/Miiverse: MikeFarber

11-03-2014, 12:54 PM	#56
BubblyShell22 Leo-holic Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Indiana Posts: 16,912	I got a cell phone in college because it was a good thing to have in case something happened and I needed to get in touch with my mom or something. Nowadays, I barely use it, but I'm still happy I have it. As for social networking, I don't have any accounts on any of those sites, though I have debated about getting a Tumblr account to talk about my fave TV shows and the like. The tutoring job I want to get is via Facebook, so that's all I'll be using it for. My mom uses FB mostly to keep in touch with former co-workers and family members and to play games on. She never posts anything though. __________________ "A warrior who never fails, never learns."-The Ancient One. "Embrace your inner a**holiness."-Mr. Anderson.

11-01-2014, 08:36 PM	#45
CyberCubed Overlord Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 43,872	I remember back in the 90's and early 2000's always being worried if I missed my favorite show on TV since you were usually out of luck until reruns came around. Nowadays you don't have to watch anything when it airs on TV anymore, its on the internet usually by the end of the day even if its illegal.

11-02-2014, 04:41 AM	#46
Mzx10484 WEM Super Starfinder 200 Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Germany Posts: 2,085	Therefore the binding force of TV decreases. In my childhood and youth, TV was the dominant medium. Today, everybody can choose his program. And any people who would have never made it to television (not meeting the criteria) make it through Youtube in a kind of public, without a threshold to overcome. So many individual uses pathetic attempt to gain a little attention I have no FB account, I don't use Skype etc ..... I write emails.

11-02-2014, 09:37 PM	#49
ssjup81 Foot Elite Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Central Virginia (Back in the US) Posts: 4,734	I've never spoken about FB offline and I don't think I've ever come across a person who talks about the amount of friends they have either. Never would've come to my mind. The only time people talk about Facebook offline with me is when they're asking if we can be FB buddies to begin with. One of my students' mother found me on Facebook while I was in the hospital. I didn't know the person, though and then I finally read it and realized it was my four-year-old student's mother. She'd used a Japanese/English translator and I told her typing in Japanese was ok. They wanted to visit me because her daughter was super worried about me and really wanted to see me. Adorable, isn't it? So, outside of those I've met through games (like when I used to play Priston Tale) or those from the Do As Infinity forum who I haven't met face-to-face yet (one has finally moved to Japan, but missed out on meeting when I visited Kyoto back in August) or other board members of other forums, mostly consists of those I've met face-to-face at some point. The majority of my friends list, I think, consists of former coworkers and former classmates from elementary/middle/high school. As a matter of fact, a few years ago FB did help me find my old friend who I'd lost touch with back in 2001. We used to talk a lot back then and we didn't see one another as much after we graduated high-school (even though we'd known each other since elementary). Due to some unfortunate circumstances, he enlisted into the service. He was stationed, but I didn't know where and he'd misplaced my e-mail just like I had his because prior to e-mail, we'd just talk on the phone. I sent him a long e-mail that one time, and I got a mailer daemon saying the address was wrong, meaning I'd copied it down wrong right before he left. Back in about 2008, or somewhere around there, I don't know how, but I saw his name was on FB. I asked to friend him and we started talking again. He'd told me how he'd been stationed in Japan and how, at the time, he was now stationed in Hawaii. We exchanged phone numbers (he said he'd lost my number during that time) and we started talking a lot (despite the large time difference between Virginia and Hawaii). He then was stationed in Korea when I moved to Japan so we used Skype a lot because we were finally back in the same time zone. For Christmas that year, we video chatted while drinking wine. lol So yeah, this is an instance where I was grateful for Facebook. I could reconnect to my old friend. ^_^

11-02-2014, 11:47 PM	#51
CyberCubed Overlord Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 43,872	I used to have a stack of VHS tapes recording shows to rewatch again and again. DVDs were also extremely expensive in the early 2000's. Remember how they used to just release 3 episodes on DVD and sell it for $20? That was insane, 3 measly episodes would cost you $20 on DVD.

11-03-2014, 12:05 AM	#52
Cure Y'all need Jesus Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: New Jersey Posts: 8,938	This thread should just be renamed "Back in MYYY day".

11-03-2014, 02:38 PM	#57
CyberCubed Overlord Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 43,872	Am I the only one who remembers putting tokens into subway stations before Metro Cards were invented? Back in my day we didn't even have plastic cards with money on them.