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Off-Topic Discussion / Becoming a Technophobe
« on: July 20, 2009, 10:26:04 PM »
thank you all for hijacking my thread, you completely missed the point.

I don't give a damn WHAT website it is that you frequent or what game it is that you're obsessed with, the point is people are missing out on meaningful relationships and being distracted from all the messed up sh** that's going on in the real world outside of chat room/message board drama. I'm not putting down online communities, there's a time and place for just about everything I just think that people need to talk more in person. People are becoming distanced from each other. There was a time when people knew all of their neighbors and probably even had a friendly rapport with each other. I'm sure for some of you that may still be the case but regardless that's just one example of how technology keeps people busy and away from real social interaction which is necessary when the time comes for everyone to band together and rise up against the oppressors of this world, none of that everyone for themselves crap, by that time it'll be too late. I guess if y'all are happy with the world we live in then by all means keep consuming as your told but I want change.

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Off-Topic Discussion / Becoming a Technophobe
« on: July 16, 2009, 02:25:03 AM »
" Technophobia is the fear or dislike of advanced technology or complex devices, especially computers. " - Wikipedia

Would a true technophobe quote wikipedia on facebook? No, but I am very quickly leaning towards unplugging myself from the web. I'm not afraid of technology itself, I'm afraid that technology is distancing people. and I'm afraid that it's being done on purpose.

Most technology up until recent years was created with good intentions (to make life easier) but now I feel as if we are being flooded with new things meant only to keep us busy. Everything has to be networked, you can connect your 10 different social networking sites to your email to your phone to your blog and back again. and it's supposed to make you more productive. but in reality all it does is keep you constantly within reach of advertising and an overload of information.

Twitter is really what put me over the edge. Sure it's neat how fast news can spread on a real time network when thousands upon thousands of people are all talking about the same thing at once. but it's maddening to sort through bunches of worthless 140 character messages all with links to another page with more information just to find out something dumb that you could have waited to find out later from a newspaper. for example, the death of michael jackson. Do you know him personally? I didn't think so. so chances are you don't need to be alerted 10 seconds after he's gone from this earth.

I need to quit the internet. I've shared too much personal information that is readily swept up, not even by actual people, but robot programs that scour the internet and collect data about you. I have no way of knowing who knows what about me.

Do kids even do homework anymore? Who has time when you have to update all your page status' every hour. plus read every other persons that you've ever met, after taking an ad sponsored survey, looking at pictures of your friends' cousins trip to the mall of america, and reading 4 blog posts about what a sh**ty day someone had.

Maybe I'm just getting old but I can't keep up with it all anymore nor am I interested in doing so. Google is all I need. If I want to know something, I look it up, and then I get off the computer again.

I know it's been pointed out by many people (more qualified than myself) many times that people are spending hours online but it's now starting to worry me.

Texting is so people stop actually talking to each other.
the internet is one big distraction from reality, you are plugged in to a giant network of advertising.

they collect information about us, by entertaining us, and don't think they won't use it against us when they need to.

THERE'S NOT GOING TO BE ANYONE LEFT TO JOIN THE REVOLUTION WHEN EVERYONES FAT ASS IS STUCK SITTING BEHIND A SCREEN. The world is ****ed up and everyones to damn busy on the internet to realize it. The government can get away with murder and no one will know about it but the government probably knows your name, address, phone number, your favorite color, music, and everyone you talk to from your damned facebook.

YOU CAN'T ENACT CHANGE IN THE WORLD BY SITTING ON YOUR LAPTOP. THAT PETITION YOU JUST SIGNED PROBABLY DIDN'T GO ANYWHERE, IT WAS NEVER INTENDED TO, IT WAS A DUMMY PAGE BEING USED TO DISPLAY ADS THAT SOMEBODY HOPED YOU'D CLICK ON SO THEY CAN MAKE MONEY.

**** I HATE 2009. WHERE HAVE ALL THE PEOPLE GONE? I'm lonely..



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"Reality is becoming for us entertainingly mediated, with nature itself becoming a filmic simulation of reality with media access from our living rooms. We watch gourmet cooks prepare complex meals on TV while increasing our consumption of convenience foods. We become increasingly sedentary while accessing escalating amounts of mass sport.

The result of this overload? A paralysis that keeps us from taking social or political action, that confines us to consume as directed by the images created by advertisers. A paralysis that cripples public discourse. A paralysis that deadens the vitality of tradition and fosters dispersonalization. "

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Chatterbox / Totally Retarded Vista!!!
« on: July 16, 2009, 02:20:02 AM »
Quote from: DuckRA2;51797
Am I clear?

no.

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Chatterbox / RANTS!
« on: November 06, 2008, 04:41:18 AM »
I wonder what Obama's after party was like..



[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgfn_vmD97A[/media]

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Chatterbox / A Hot Girl was In my Bathroom...
« on: November 04, 2008, 04:35:45 AM »
not all that uncommon. probably a visitor of someone living on your floor.

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Discussion / RA2GE Legends Unleased: Got Music?
« on: October 30, 2008, 03:23:16 AM »
how do bots get "unlocked?" is this something other than RA2 the game or is there an awesome new mod that's been created in my long absence?

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