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Life without a computer... (pg. 5)
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by The17sss
I used Myspace for about 4 months back in 2006. Next thing I know, I'm getting lost on that site for 3 or 4 hours a day. Then one day I was like, "what the am I doing? All the people I'm really friends with, I talk to on the phone and/or see on a daily basis in real life... why make a redundant cyber version of what exists in reality already?" ALl those other random people I've never met sending friends requests, getting all involved in trying to figure out what people were up to by reading their comments pages, and choosing the order of who's in the "top 8" mean nothing to me. Too many evil temptations lurking on there also if you're in a relationship. Once I cancelled that , I felt a whole lot better. Check out this BBC article from today about how Facebook is kind of taking the joy out of reality for those kids who spend a ton of time on there.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7487723.stm |
My facebook has no friends I don't already know. I don't add people that I don't know in some form or fashion better than just a "hi" in the halls. |
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| Lira |
My ISP went nuts this week and I'm seriously thinking of not having internet at home any more. I can still have access to the intarweb at work, after all, and so far I don't feel I'm missing much.
I still need to get rid of Civilisation II, though. What a time waster that is :p |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
My ISP went nuts this week and I'm seriously thinking of not having internet at home any more. I can still have access to the intarweb at work, after all, and so far I don't feel I'm missing much.
I still need to get rid of Civilisation II, though. What a time waster that is :p |
Civ II sucks. Civ IV is much cooler. :o |
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| Slylee |
omg i would die without the internet in my apt. :nervous:
but at the same time, i have no problem not having it if i'm doing something cool like an exotic vacation. if i was chillin in fiji with a pina colada and a sexy man, the last thing on my mind would be TA or any part of the internet lol |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Slylee
omg i would die without the internet in my apt. :nervous:
but at the same time, i have no problem not having it if i'm doing something cool like an exotic vacation. if i was chillin in fiji with a pina colada and a sexy man, the last thing on my mind would be TA or any part of the internet lol |
+1..except swap the man for a woman. :D |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
Civ II sucks. Civ IV is much cooler. :o |
Never played. It's been a while since I last bought a computer game, and I found Civ II in a back-up disk last month... |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Never played. It's been a while since I last bought a computer game, and I found Civ II in a back-up disk last month... |
What is buy? :p |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
What is buy? :p |
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| The17sss |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
My facebook has no friends I don't already know. I don't add people that I don't know in some form or fashion better than just a "hi" in the halls. |
That's the way to do it man. If I did it from the start like that, I wouldn't have the bad taste in my mouth from it. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by The17sss
That's the way to do it man. If I did it from the start like that, I wouldn't have the bad taste in my mouth from it. |
What bad taste, if you don't mind me asking? As for me, I add pretty much everyone, except for people I don't know and people I wish I had not come to know (which is a really short list :p). |
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| jdat |
I can be without internet at home but as a whole I still need some steady internet access options or else I am disconnected.
It's almost reached junky status because right now I am looking to get a new calling plan for my cellphone and it's all focused around getting an internet plan. My usage on the celly is minimal regarding calls and internet ( I call for less than an hour a month and do maybe 5 megs a month of internet ) but I just gotta have the internet.
It's funny because I was discussing this with my parents and my mother thinks internet on the cellphone is pointless yet my father insists I should have it because I've saved his butt so many times. ( Including mine ... google maps email etc w00t ). I go out of town/country a lot and I need that option. If I wasn't nearly as mobile I most certainly wouldn't.
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
My facebook has no friends I don't already know. I don't add people that I don't know in some form or fashion better than just a "hi" in the halls. |
yesterday I get this facebook request from a random chick and I asked her who she was ... " I work for so and so magazine, used to see you at these classes at the local uni and saw you at various press conferences"
uh :wtf: ok ... so you recognized me when you happened to stumble upon me on facebook? I did add her but I have my own reasons ( potential contacts with the magazine etc ). |
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| zoogla |
wtf, i totally disagree.
free pr0n > reality |
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