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My neighbor is posting links to Less Wrong on Facebook
I've heard of people doing this, but I never expected it to happen to someone I know.
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I'll tell you that my little dream is that I meet the Yudman, just out of the blue headbutt him hard enough to send him to the ground, and then I ask what was his Bayesian estimate of probability of this happening.
edit: and I had this happen to a buddy of mine. Luckily he's got a mild case so I don't yet have to block his posts.
By the way, did you know that he's a troper?
So were you. And just like arson, being a troper is one of those sins you can never get rid of no matter how much you protest.
I'd like to think that this is hyperbole, but hoping for that would be naive.
Fuck the fat bastard, having a 'Tropes account doesn't yet make him a Troper. Unless you tell me he posts regularly. I do hope he doesn't.
So he posts only in the thread on his work. That's kind of, as folks say, meta, but within the margin of safety. I'd say the Nerd God is afraid that had he appeared outside of it, somebody could have questioned his magnificence, if I believed he's able of such self-critical approach.
Not getting the joke is yet another one of those sins. So far we have arson, being dense, talking in the theater and being a troper.
And Myrm, the problem here isn't that your neighbor is posting junk on facebook. The problem is that you are using facebook in the first place.
I got on Facebook to get in contact with acquaintances faraway and it snowballed from there.
lol come again?
Facebook does not exactly have the best reputation around the place. A lot of the people who use Facebook are teenagers, with the stupid drama that comes with that, adults who waste far too much of their time on the site, and grandparents who have no real idea what they're doing.
That's not to say that there aren't intelligent people who use the site, but... Well, when only four of the people on my Facebook wall can reliably spell correctly, two of which are my grandparents who basically use the site to play Scrabble, and I'm constantly getting into religious arguments with the third, it kind of sours my view of the site.
That, and everyone there overuses LOL. I hate LOL. LOL needs to die.
I know that, Nova. I just get annoyed when people just outright dismiss Facebook; it has its uses (staying in touch, organizing events, keeping up on events/news), and a person's enjoyment of it is entirely up to them; if a person is annoyed by people overusing acronyms or posting about their SO's all the time, he/she can unfriend those people.
If I unfriended everyone who annoyed me, I would have no friends ;-;
Thing is, yeah, Facebook does has its' uses. Does that mean it can't be outright stupid, though?
I mean, I don't really diss Facebook, as it's the only way I can talk to my little brother more than once a month. But I do diss Twitter because its' userbase is kinda dumb, and I diss MySpace for the same reason. Intelligent people do use the site, but for the most part...
It's a generalization, in other words. Like everyone here who goes on about how awful Reddit is, or how bad TVTropes can get. Yeah, they have a lot of bad shit, but they do have good shit as well. Does that mean we should stop dissing them, or at least stop over-generalizing? Probably, but I won't anyway.
Who uses Myspace anymore? Can't really comment on Twitter.
The reason I rag on Reddit and TVTropes is because their bad shit is far worse than any of the bad shit I've seen on Facebook or Twitter; the only really bad stuff I've heard of happening as a result of social networking sites was through PM's/the conditional equivalent anyway; you don't see what happened with Reddit on Facebook, and you don't see nearly as much of the creepy/particularly cringe-inducing shit you'd see on TVTropes.
Nah, but I have seen people gloating on Facebook over beating up a friend of mine.
It might not be as outright creepy as TVTropes, or as blatantly apologetic towards things like rape and child molestation and exploitation as Reddit, but it has its' own unique brand of stupid that can only come from letting everyone know that it's you but feeling safe and confident because you're posting on the internet.
Sorry, you did not really need a list of all the stupid like that.
TV Tropes is here like Twilight or Justin Bieber in the internet in general. I don't expect people to use their brain when they talk about it.
I consider that a feature more than a bug. After all, that's the sort of thing you can send to cops and say "hey, I found some people publicly confessing to a crime."
As you put it, that's its own brand of stupidity (plus, you can actually report them for that, as INUH said), but it doesn't surprise me at all (presumably we're talking about teenagers), and it certainly doesn't offend me in the same way that some of the stuff on TVTropes does, nor outright shock me like what happened with Reddit.
Besides, I feel like the amount of douchebaggery on Facebook is in a significantly smaller portion than the creepiness/douchebaggery in TVTropes, and as a result of redditbomb I consider Reddit--not the userbase, but the site, if that makes sense--irredeemable. Mostly, on Facebook, I've seen people just talking about (normal) fun stuff they did, inane though it may be.
Sorry, I did originally have a longer list of shit people have said, but it was unneccessary.
there are certain social expectations, though. I mean, I wish I didn't have my family friended, but they are and they're going to ask me to friend them both in real life or otherwise, so it's not like I can say no to that.
That and how intrusive facebook has gotten in people's lives to the point where companies have people trawling their employee's facebooks for anything they think might make them look bad. Hell even if you don't say anything yourself about a party you went to where you got really drunk, one of your friends might tag you and that could bounce back to work and cause hassles.
Or really how when I hear people talking about facebook, it is always about some inane drama that could have been avoided if you just weren't in contact with those people.
All of which I question heavily. If you don't have some other method of staying in touch with that person, I question the quality of said relationship. Organizing events I will give you actually, but keeping up on events/news? If you think sensationalist media is bad, try looking at how facebook covers the news.
Meh. I used Facebook to contact and pull together some of my old high school bandos for pizza during winter break. Most of us weren't keeping in touch at all and it came out of nowhere, but it was still good times. It has its uses.
Still, the intrusiveness of late is really creepy. Automatically opting into new features is bad enough, but with the new changes you don't even have the option of staying out of it.
Maybe it's because of my situation at the time was different, but I did find it quite useful for a while just for that reason. Although I didn't have a phone and I was pretty bad at remembering the phone of the place I was staying at at the time, so I had to use the internet.
In fact, kind of the reason I even started using it was because keeping in control the members of a lot of team projects was easier when you could find them while they were procastinating.
Could be neither person wants to use Skype, or whatever it is they use for that, and texting takes longer than typing.
I haven't really seen that many bad interpretations of news on Facebook; I mostly just see some Yahoo app posting what my friends have read.
But mostly, I just can't compare the typical teenager inanity I've seen on Facebook to all kinds of apologism and the tacit condoning of things like CP.
Well, after I finished Highschool, there were some people I wanted to stay in contact with but didn't have their numbers because I saw them every day and thus didn't need them until then.
I mostly agree with you, but I'm not sure why the word "tacit" is in there :P
Man, you and I must exchange friend circles.
Well, the moderation was tactic to approving; I'd imagine most of the userbase simply wasn't aware of it, but the fact that it was even possible for so many people to not be aware of it for so long is crazy.