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« Reply #80 on: July 22, 2009, 02:41:19 AM »
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Well to begin with I don't use Twitter so........, and I was talking about "REAL" Medicine, like when u get sick and u go to the Doctors and they diagnose u for what u have and give u medicine to make u better? If u were trying to be funny I know u can do better than that;). @ Urjack thanks for the info about poisionous spiders I can now sleep better at night knowing If I do run into those type of spiders if I travel that I won't die in seconds but will have an hour or two to get some medical attention:-D

Did you know that the internet is now compatible with English? You should give it a shot sometime.

HackerX did not state that all technology was bad. If that's how you interpreted his post, I would suggest boning up on your reading comprehension skills. This topic is about how convenience technology is making us miss out on face-to-face interaction (which actually causes Asperger's like symptons), forget about the important issues in the world, and open us up to all sorts of violation of privacy.
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« Reply #81 on: July 22, 2009, 12:37:46 PM »
im so tweeting about this thread...

I agree with most of what you said hx. "todays" Internet has to much CRAP pushed in your face.

It is scary how unproductive the majority of the society is. I'm not sure if it because of the modern Internet, but it sure has made thing more transparent.

Personally, the turning point for me was when I was when I was in a room full of people and yet the room was silent. Everyone was doing something on their hand held doohickeys.

I do have a facebook account. But only use if for people I actually know, or knew back when I was a goosling.


I see that  things have not changed much around here... people still cant stay on topic.
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« Reply #82 on: July 22, 2009, 12:44:15 PM »
Goose, your avatars dancing exactly in time with a song my brothers playing on Guitar Hero!

Sorry.

Same here with the facebook (except the goosling?). I can barely stand it when my parents are both in the same room stuck on their laptops. Its when my mum used to joke about how they would email each other and be sitting right next to each other that I thought how rediculas it was.

And yet most of my time right now is being taken up on my own laptop. I'm mainly focusing on my Doomed bots entry at the moment, but I'm going on holiday next week and the week after I've promised myself to try and get out more.
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« Reply #83 on: July 22, 2009, 03:20:22 PM »
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Did you know that the internet is now compatible with English? You should give it a shot sometime.

HackerX did not state that all technology was bad. If that's how you interpreted his post, I would suggest boning up on your reading comprehension skills. This topic is about how convenience technology is making us miss out on face-to-face interaction (which actually causes Asperger's like symptons), forget about the important issues in the world, and open us up to all sorts of violation of privacy.


lol boning up on reading comprehension skills, see I knew u could be more funnier:-D.  Frezal When My next Semester of college starts I'm going to work extra hard in English just for u, ur going to be my motavation;) As for the topic I agree partially yes technology I guess  now limits face to face interaction( Like I said with playing video games All day). But It's are Personal choice if we want to  play video games all day and  computers or go outside and play sports or go to the park Not Technology, Technology dosen't control us or tell us to do these things, We do. Yes Technology has given us more options not to go  outside all the time or face to face intercations, But it takes two to Tangle : Are personal choice of what we want to do in are spare time/ And yes Technology

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« Reply #84 on: July 22, 2009, 06:01:31 PM »
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lol boning up on reading comprehension skills, see I knew u could be more funnier:-D.  Frezal When My next Semester of college starts I'm going to work extra hard in English just for u, ur going to be my motavation;) As for the topic I agree partially yes technology I guess  now limits face to face interaction( Like I said with playing video games All day). But It's are Personal choice if we want to  play video games all day and  computers or go outside and play sports or go to the park Not Technology, Technology dosen't control us or tell us to do these things, We do. Yes Technology has given us more options not to go  outside all the time or face to face intercations, But it takes two to Tangle : Are personal choice of what we want to do in are spare time/ And yes Technology

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« Reply #85 on: August 02, 2009, 08:22:37 AM »
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I all u had to do is tell me to stay on topic, Really "Shut up" I can post whatever I feel like posting ur not gonna make do anything lol:!:. Maybe u should consider that we were on topic to begin with and fell off topic because ur topic is pointless and boring:tongue:. Technolgy makes life alot easier I don't care what u say or babbling about. And the fact u were saying it makes people less social is hilarious:lol:. For every body to band together and fight the opressors of the world??? And um what u think were gonna use are hands and feet against them, Technology has affected warfare drastically Hell it won us WW2 "Nuclear Bomb" And even today Technology helps alot in the Military And in every Aspect in life, so what are u complaining about:? Techonolgy makes the world go around, "Plain and Simple"

Really great arguement, is that what you tell mommy and daddy when they tell you to get off the computer and go make some real friends? "You can't make me! Your not the boss of me! na na na na na na." :baby_smily:
 
I don't care what you have to say either, what a coincidence. :rolleyes:
 
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I thought it was pretty clear that I meant wasteful forms of technology meant to entertain children and allow advertisers to put ads in front of your face at all times to distract them from learning how to speak properly and revert into texting shorthand language, essentially creating mindless blindly consuming drones. (See Idiocracy or Wall-E for an example - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/ ).
 
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Viper, I think you need to stop assuming that your opinion is fact. I also think you need to stop using so many smileys and start typing on here with proper grammer.

It's implied that that's what you think when you say it, so saying I think before hand is unnecessary.
 
PS. grammar.
 
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My opinion lol. The Nuclear Bomb is a fact and so is medicine improving in time with technology:lol:. Well I really don't care about grammer this is not school and if u can understand me than why whine about it. As for the Smiliey's If there to use then I'm gonna use them, Who are u the Smiliey Police lol

You think that the nuclear bomb is technology that improves the world? That's messed up.
 
If you want people to talk to you than it's generally a good idea to try and make your messages understandable so maybe you should start to care.
 
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I'm not trying to pick a grudge with u either;). I got better things to do, and Yes he has a point partially. I understand what he is saying and see from his point a view but it's just that technology has done so many amazing things throught out time to this current date( not talking about medicine) it just puzzles me. As for internet making people not seeing people less and meeting people Idk about that one, there is dating sites, webcams, social sites like Facebook, Myspace, And twitter, I've met people I would prolly never meet before using FaceBook and MySpace. In My website that mod phones there are Hackers and modders from all over the world That I would of prolly never of met if it wasn't for the internet. I agree about gaming keeping people inside When I get a cool game Like an Rpg game that takes a good amount of time to beat I play that for days at a time:-D. As for lol's no I dont actually laugh out loud the whole time u guys are not that funny;). And I wasn't bragging I was just stating that I play sports.

I agree that social networking is useful for keeping up with people I've already met but I have my doubts about how meaningful a relationship based online can be, that's just my experience though.
 
It's all the addons to those social networking sites that take away from the functionality that bother me. Meant only to keep you on there longer, and therefore around to see more advertising.
 
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Yes Viper, you do have a point about meeting new people over the internet on Facebook and forums etc, but apart from the people you hook up with or specicfically ask to meet, are you actualy going to see any of those people in real life? And also my point is many people spend a lot of their time on facebook and forums talking to people. But like I said, how many of these people are they actually going to go outside and meet?

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Well to begin with I don't use Twitter so........, and I was talking about "REAL" Medicine, like when u get sick and u go to the Doctors and they diagnose u for what u have and give u medicine to make u better?

Really? I never would have guessed that.
 
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Did you know that the internet is now compatible with English? You should give it a shot sometime.
 
HackerX did not state that all technology was bad. If that's how you interpreted his post, I would suggest boning up on your reading comprehension skills. This topic is about how convenience technology is making us miss out on face-to-face interaction (which actually causes Asperger's like symptons), forget about the important issues in the world, and open us up to all sorts of violation of privacy.

thankyou.
 
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lol boning up on reading comprehension skills, see I knew u could be more funnier:-D. Frezal When My next Semester of college starts I'm going to work extra hard in English just for u, ur going to be my motavation;) As for the topic I agree partially yes technology I guess now limits face to face interaction( Like I said with playing video games All day). But It's are Personal choice if we want to play video games all day and computers or go outside and play sports or go to the park Not Technology, Technology dosen't control us or tell us to do these things, We do. Yes Technology has given us more options not to go outside all the time or face to face intercations, But it takes two to Tangle : Are personal choice of what we want to do in are spare time/ And yes Technology

That was painful to read.
 
Way to change your mind after a couple other people started agreeing with me.
 
How the heck does the catch phrase "two to tango" have any relevance whatsoever in that ...sentence?
 
Technology doesn't control us YET. Please see The Matrix. hahah.
 
One last post for now..
 
A lot of you keep contrasting technology vs. being outdoors. I realize that may have been representative of being more social but you're still missing the point. I'm not telling you to go play sports or join the boy scouts, just take notice of those around you on a regular basis and be friendly towards them. Who knows what might happen!
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« Reply #86 on: August 02, 2009, 09:06:10 AM »
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just take notice of those around you on a regular basis and be friendly towards them. Who knows what might happen!

You get mugged/shanked/shot.

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« Reply #87 on: August 02, 2009, 09:09:12 AM »
Look shadier than the shady people. just put your hood up.. works every time.

Disclaimer: I'm not to be held liable in the event that that doesn't workout for you.
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« Reply #88 on: August 02, 2009, 10:59:01 AM »
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Look shadier than the shady people. just put your hood up.. works every time.

Disclaimer: I'm not to be held liable in the event that that doesn't workout for you.


ur a real funny dude, an as for the grammer what is this fcking school are we being graded on how we post??????? If it's that painful to read then don't read it

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« Reply #89 on: August 02, 2009, 11:59:48 AM »
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If it's that painful to read then don't read it


It's happening already!!! I guess you really don't want anybody to listen to you...


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« Reply #90 on: August 02, 2009, 01:48:10 PM »
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ur a real funny dude, an as for the grammer what is this fcking school are we being graded on how we post??????? If it's that painful to read then don't read it
First of all, you don't go to college. Even business majors know the difference between "are" and "our". Secondly, why do you even go to school if you don't apply what you're supposed to be learning outside of school? Drop out and let the tax dollars be spent on kids who actually want to improve themselves.
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« Reply #91 on: August 03, 2009, 05:39:44 PM »
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First of all, you don't go to college. Even business majors know the difference between "are" and "our". Secondly, why do you even go to school if you don't apply what you're supposed to be learning outside of school? Drop out and let the tax dollars be spent on kids who actually want to improve themselves.


Who the f*ck are you to tell me if I don't go to college or not ( I do go to college and I have a 3.5 GPA)??? You people are so f*cking funny bitching about proper grammer on a robot internet  forum:lol:. Maybe you two should consider the fact that I don't give a f*ck about what my grammer looks like on a f*cking internet forum or what you two circus clowns think of it:o
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« Reply #92 on: August 03, 2009, 06:35:12 PM »
hmmm, swear allot?

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« Reply #93 on: August 03, 2009, 06:41:05 PM »
'Being/not being a Technophobe' is the subject of this thread I believe...
Back on topic, y'all.
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« Reply #94 on: August 03, 2009, 07:39:53 PM »
If you don't like our rules then change or GTFO.
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« Reply #95 on: August 03, 2009, 07:47:57 PM »
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Who the f*ck are you to tell me if I don't go to college or not ( I do go to college and I have a 3.5 GPA)??? You people are so f*cking funny bitching about proper grammer on a robot internet  forum:lol:. Maybe you two should consider the fact that I don't give a f*ck about what my grammer looks like on a f*cking internet forum or what you two circus clowns think of it:o

Ok, to prove that you're in college, PM me your college email address. I will email you a passcode. After receiving said passcode, post it here. If you are not up to the challenge, come up with another way to prove that you're in college or admit defeat.
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« Reply #96 on: August 03, 2009, 07:52:05 PM »
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If you don't like our rules then change or GTFO.


What rules???? I'm not going change just because 2 or 3 people don't like my grammer or what ever. I'm sick of them singleing me out because of my grammer like I'm the only one on this dam site misspelling words or putting commas in wrong places or what ever. Your post is a good example of what I mean "GTFO", alot of people on this site use abrivations like that but you don't see Frezal and HX crying:baby_smily: about that now do you? I don't have problem with you, what I do have a problem with is people trying to take shots at me  for the fun of it trying to say I don't go to college or is English my primary language or some dumb bullsh!t

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« Reply #97 on: August 03, 2009, 07:55:39 PM »
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Ok, to prove that you're in college, PM me your college email address. I will email you a passcode. After receiving said passcode, post it here. If you are not up to the challenge, come up with another way to prove that you're in college or admit defeat.


If I'm not up to the challenge??? What challenge get real. I go to Cayuga Community College now , I got one more semester and then I'm transfering to JWU in North Miami, Florda:-D

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« Reply #98 on: August 03, 2009, 07:56:04 PM »
Its because most of us use good enough grammar to be acceptable, with some spurts of un-grammar-ness thrown in. Your posts are acceptable for a Bulgarian (Venko), but not someone (supposedly) from NY.
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« Reply #99 on: August 03, 2009, 08:08:42 PM »
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Its because most of us use good enough grammar to be acceptable, with some spurts of un-grammar-ness thrown in. Your posts are acceptable for a Bulgarian (Venko), but not someone (supposedly) from NY.


Well thats how I post so......... idk. Let me ask you this can you understand my posts, because you guys are making it out like i'm posting in a whole other language and thats it's so bad that you can't understand a single word that i'm saying, which  is not the case because people respond to my posts with no problems at all and understand me clearly(not talking about this thread in general).