First off...don't think I'm asking this like "OMG eww..you like somthing popular.. that's so mainstream" or whatever.

There's pros and cons to being both connected to popular media/culture and being disconnected.

I myself am almost entirely disconnected. I still do the facebook thing...but on a very light scale...but that's about it. sports I guess count but after that I honestly don't know anything about anything popular.

My girlfriend is really my only connection, and she's just barely in touch with whats going on..she just watches celebrity apprentice.

Utterly disconnected. (if you don't count the Facebook thing)

I've experienced two side effects from this:

One is the complete disbelief that occurs when I mention to someone that I don't have a TV at home, or that I haven't watched TV in over a decade.. some people are shocked by this, as if I'd just mentioned that I don't have running water at my house, or that I live by candlelight.

The second thing: the many, many conversations I've heard that revolve around something on TV that I simply couldn't follow at all.. I have absolutely no idea about and no opinion on a whole brigade of TV characters, new-ish actors, singers, bands, TV shows etc..

In some respects, I'm Pop-culture handicapped.. Sometimes, I wish I could offer an opinion when asked about something happening on TV, but for the most part, I don't care. It's much like being a foreigner all the time - a thing I'm very used to.

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hot bitches are my connection to pop culture

I listen to Z100 New York and KISS FM LA on satellite radio, It makes me feel young; it's good driving music too. In Sunny Florida, you pretty much live inside your vehicle. I haven't been to the movie theater in months, prob breaking that now that it's summertime. I don't watch any television, last thing i watched was Conan on TBS but I was at a friends house. So, pretty disconnected, except for some top 40 nonsense while driving.

I personally enjoy British television the most, I love Dr.Who (UK), and recently a friend from of mine from the UK recommended the tv show 'Queer for Folk' the (UK version). He was telling me how people were shocked when it came out, And i must say, i've learned alot about gay UK culture from it. It's pretty cool to see a TV show for gay people that are portrayed as normal, and not dysfunctional queeny boys with obnoxious lisps.

I'm pretty disconnected too. No TV here, and I don't really follow any of that stupid shit. I read NY Mag, though, and I suppose that gives me a sufficient dose of what's going on in the pop culture world. Of course I use facebook also.

Totally disconnected from everything. I don't have Facebook, Myspace or account on any other socialization network. I only have one real friend whom I haven't seen since 2010 and we keep in contact from time to time. Still using messenger and only talking to a few people (mostly about music). I never listen to radio and only watch TV when there are football (soccer) matches on. Only go clubbing like twice a year.

I'm an avid cinema viewer though, going pretty often.

I only watch windows and TNA Wrestling.

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Originally posted by Intellekshual Utterly disconnected. (if you don't count the Facebook thing) I've experienced two side effects from this: One is the complete disbelief that occurs when I mention to someone that I don't have a TV at home, or that I haven't watched TV in over a decade.. some people are shocked by this, as if I'd just mentioned that I don't have running water at my house, or that I live by candlelight. The second thing: the many, many conversations I've heard that revolve around something on TV that I simply couldn't follow at all.. I have absolutely no idea about and no opinion on a whole brigade of TV characters, new-ish actors, singers, bands, TV shows etc.. In some respects, I'm Pop-culture handicapped.. Sometimes, I wish I could offer an opinion when asked about something happening on TV, but for the most part, I don't care. It's much like being a foreigner all the time - a thing I'm very used to.

You're just like, sooo intellectual man.


I don't see anything wrong with having an awareness of what's going on in pop culture. Nothing's worse than trying to engage with some out of touch fuck who thinks the only meaningful topics of discussion can't be found on television/in the media. Give me a fucking break. You remember Theresa, right? She ignored the news? Yeah.

It's people who are so absorbed in pop culture without being able to critically appraise it that suck hard. Otherwise, what's the big deal? It's everywhere ffs...you people are really saying you're not connected at all? Think about how ridiculous and stupid that sounds.

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Originally posted by Miss Pie You're just like, sooo intellectual man. I don't see anything wrong with having an awareness of what's going on in pop culture. Nothing's worse than trying to engage with some out of touch fuck who thinks the only meaningful topics of discussion can't be found on television/in the media. Give me a fucking break. You remember Theresa, right? She ignored the news? Yeah. It's people who are so absorbed in pop culture without being able to critically appraise it that suck hard. Otherwise, what's the big deal? It's everywhere ffs...you people are really saying you're not connected at all? Think about how ridiculous and stupid that sounds.

When the fuck did I say that I think it's "wrong"?.. I don't see anything wrong with being connected to Pop culture, either. It just doesn't interest me, personally. It's not my cup of Chai, you know?

I get my news from the interwebs, I still watch DVDs and go to movie theaters.. and if there is something relevant going on that deserves my attention, I can stream the fucking news report online.

And yeah don't compare me to Theresa who ignored the news because "the world is going to shit" or "because it's depressing".. we're not remotely comparable in that respect. It's the sort of apathy that causes people to lament that the world is going to shit and then think that realizing that absolves them of the need to educate themselves any further that is making the world go to shit.

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Oh, ok.

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Originally posted by Miss Pie Nothing's worse than trying to engage with some out of touch fuck who thinks the only meaningful topics of discussion can't be found on television/in the media.

This... is not even true. How could you think this?

But I will say that people who suppose 'alternative culture' to not be pop culture are understandably laughable, and it's super common for these types to gravitate all conversation toward only things that they know. See: EDM and the 'underground', for example. Or rivetheads, when it comes to my interests. This isn't really a result of their exposure to 'the mainstream' or not, it's simply a result of them being boring fuckers with nothing relative to say because they are as equally fixated on their own sub-culture as the very people in the metaculture they so often suppose they're sticking it to.

Lol, sticking it to.

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On This... is not even true. How could you think this?

What do you mean it isn't true? You've never been involved in a conversation with someone too snotty to acknowledge the mundane and/or idiotic? Like they're somehow above it/better than that? Hahahaha. It is 100% true.