A week without Facebook?! OMG, LMAO, LOL, STFU, BRB...
Can you go a week without Facebook? How about Twitter? Your email? Dare I say it...your cell phone??? One small town college is stepping up and banning the designated stupidiot/stalker hangout from their servers.
It is only for a week, but I certainly applaud the efforts of the Harrisburg University of Science and Technology . Provost Eric Darr is not trying to censor anyone or thing, he is simply doing that strangest, weirdest, OMFG like fer shrr most abhorrent thing anyone can in America today...he is being an adult and setting boundaries for children.
I'm not going to go off on this topic as I know that most of you guys are part of the internet generation and I don't want this to turn into another "geezers vs. youngins" argument.
All I can tell you is that life can be really sweet when you actually live it and that all of this computer dwelling is no good. We are landlocked enough to these machines, when you have the free time, cut the forced umbilical cord.
As I pointed out earlier in the week , stupidity and pointless issues are now our official National Pastime.
So it is no surprise that there were bound to be those to take an action like this and put a populist idiot spin on it. According to some guy who's site's not getting free pub out of me:
You really can't disconnect people from it in the long run without creating some real inefficiencies and backlash.
Inefficiencies?
Backlash?
Is this the Keynesian theorem on social networking sites? Take them away and proles shall revolt? Inefficiencies...humbug.
I feel like Luke WIlson in Idiocracy. For those of you who haven't seen it...please get yourself some electrolytes.
As it is inevitable in life that all young men will one day age and tell other young men about "how it was in my time"...all I can say is that I truly, madly, deeply feel sorry for you guys from the bottom of my heart that one day it'll be those who grew up on MySpace and Facebook giving out these doldrums of lunaticastittie.
Yes. If "like" can be used as a verbal crutch in the sentences of college professors nationwide, I can breast augment a verb, noun or adjective if I like.
Long live the King, the King is alive and well and he's picking his nose with his toes.
What's the abbreviation for "hocks loogey in disgust and goes to clean his guns"?
Good day, sirs and madams.
Midas, if I ever saw you in the bathroom, I'd run out of my stall, and throw real shit at you, not that monkey shit we use on WSO.
Sometimes you need to brain filter your posts --> it's ok not to be on the front page every day....
Yeah Midas you gotta get it together.
Midas,
It's all about the Brawndo. It's got Electrolytes!
However, I have gone for lenghty periods without using Email/Facebook/Twitter and Email (well, that's changed a bit with my aquisition of a crackberry, but I still ignore all the emails that come through). Cell phone use, however, is a bit more difficult. Whenever I go out to visit family in Colorado, the only thing I use is my cell phone, and that's because it's easier to use a cell phone than a walkie talkie that has a much more lmiited range for communications. I happen to take things one step further and have a prepaid phone that I use for call forwarding purposes just to not look at my blackberry. It's quite relaxing, actually.
As to the national pasttime, our Media is honestly trying to push us away from viewing anythign that is going to have us think. What better way than promote TV like American Idol or Jersey Shore and focus in on the stories like Inez Sainz. Hell, we even need to dig deeper just to get the whole picture on unemployment numbers, as any movement won't mention anything about UEC, People who have exhausted benefits and other issues. That's just business as usual as far as the public are concerned. Unfortnately, the only way to break that is to force people to read and examine everything, but no one has the time when they are more concerned with living in the recession. Anything the media can do to turn our attention from reality has become the new norm.
Whoa. Facebook I could do without. Cell phone and email, no way in hell.
Coprofiliacs and critics will not be getting friended.
I remember losing a cellphone my sophomore year in college and not getting a replacement for a month. It was a pretty liberating feeling. Although that was college and you could walk everywhere/know where everyone is most of the time. In the real world, I am crippled without my crackberry and all its wonders.
I went completely dark for my week in Tuscany in July. It was Heaven.
This might crack some of you up, but back in the early days of cell phones (93-94), if someone called you on your cell phone for something work-related, they might get their ass kicked. Back then, calls were about a buck a minute (even to receive calls) and it was understood that cell phones were only for personal use, and never business.
Call me about a kick ass party = OK Call me about IBM's quarterly numbers = You're a fucking dead man
My how times change.
Eddie,
I know what you mean. I remember my father, a doctor, having one of the classic Motorola Grey MicroTac and then subsequently moving to the StarTac instead of having a phone in his car to be in touch with his service, the hospitals he worked at and his office if it were an emergency. He'd be on call and woud only use his cell phone if he was paged by the hospital or his service and he wasn't at home. I recall multiple times were out and his office would call over something that was unimportant and he'd flip out at them because of the cost to call him for something that wasn't an emergency was outrageous.
Now, his service texts his Droid when he's paged instead. New technology = New Sign of the Times.
I dont really spend that much time on fagbook, for the most part it is pretty uninteresting. I think one of the reasons fb is so popular is that as a culture we have become highly narcissistic. Cell phones and email are very convenient. I wouldnt mind going back to the days of just land lines, but no email would really blow.
The problem is that OP's complaint could have been made in earlier generations, with regard to television and before that radio, and then there were movie theaters. The argument could have been made with land line phones instead of telegraphs, but the fact is these innovations made our lives more convenient.
The interesting thing is that theoretically, technical innovation is supposed to make our lives more relaxed and easier, as we are able to do our day to day chores quicker. But what actually happened is we just used the technical innovations to get more done, and our lives actually became more stressed, as we dont even have the 30 minute breaks it would take to make a meal or the few days it would take to receive a letter. Plus, everyone knows that we have email and cell phones, so their is a greater expectation for immediate response.
In the end, I would say that facebook, twitter et al does not really provide a convenience that is not already found in other technological innovations. Its very possible to communicate things to your friends and set up gatherings without using facebook, in a quick manner. Facebook, in my honest opinion is about narcissism for the youth, and the older guys are just trying to be hip.
Lol, what's with the random russian spammers?
edit: fixed, thank you mods
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