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GoGeTa006:
looks interesting but not enough inovation to make me swich from chrome. . .I'd rather ctrl+tab or just click it. . .Im usually on 4-5 tabs at the most
xShadow:
--- Quote from: metro. on February 20, 2012, 02:14:35 AM ---What it boils down to is you guys being superduper scared of people finding the face behind your name.
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In away, you're right:
No, I don't want to just give away my face to people that I "know" online. I generally only give it to people that I can come to trust and know. The internet is a center of artificial relationships. Would I want to give artificial relationships the same kind of exposure that I do to real life relationships? No. That's only logical. I'm not going to give away my real life identity to people that I can't communicate with offline. It boils down to that. I don't mind giving you maybe just my RL nickname, but I'm not going to give away physical details when I can't talk to you outside of a Facebook page.
To me, Facebook is like a huge social MMORPG where people are foolishly choosing to expose themselves more than usual. Could it be useful for some hookups? Maybe. Do I wanna go through the trouble of sifting through the shit to get to them? No. I refuse to take part in that. If I wanna talk to my friend, I'll call them on the phone. If I wanna make friends, I'll go up to random people in my classes and in real life. I'll come across some chance encounters with strangers that eventually evolve into lasting friendships. I don't wanna have some retarded artificial layer of friendship with some random person online.
Real friendships are made and kept in real life. If you want fake ones, then go ahead and use Fakebook as much as you want.
--- Quote --- That's why I got.
And it seems quite condescending about it too. Which is cool I guess.
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We probably are condescending because to us (at least to me) you're a bunch of morons.
I hope that clears up any doubts you might have. There's no "seems" here.
metro.:
Of course, I'm totally retarded. How silly of me to think otherwise. My aspirations to be social are preposterous, and by doing so I'm sacrificing my privacy and making a fool of myself.
I think you're confusing Facebook with some other site, where you add people you don't actually have an contact with. I'm sure that if you desire, or even need, complete and total anonymity, I daresay that you've failed already. Had one the desire, finding you wouldn't be that difficult. It's the world we live in, and if you do not wish to be found, I suggest you limit your digital foot print.
Anonymity is something of a 1/r^2 graph, while you may get so close to absolute zero, where no one knows you, it is impossible. If you want that, and to maintain an online presence, such as torrenting, talking or gaming, then I suggest you come to the realization that you can be found.
I no not disagree with you, online is no substitute for real, live, human interactions. Meeting, or talking to someone, through any digital medium, no matter how close to real it can get, is never the same. There are so many things that make face-to-face contact special.
As a moron, I'm simply saying that getting in touch with people through some ways, and sharing your life with the people you care about, from a great distance, is something that Facebook allows better then many other networking sites. Are people that share what they had for breakfast every morning taking it to far? Quite so, and it's rather annoying, but then again, they tend to be in real life if they have to validate themselves by sharing their every feeling. But networking is such a valuable career tool to pass it up is of questionable judgement.
Judge me, and my alleged fake friendships, all you like. Just know that broad assumptions usually incorrect.
xShadow:
--- Quote from: metro. on February 20, 2012, 10:17:52 PM ---Of course, I'm totally retarded. How silly of me to think otherwise. My aspirations to be social are preposterous, and by doing so I'm sacrificing my privacy and making a fool of myself.
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This has nothing to do with being social or private. I can socialize with random people online just fine. Reread my post.
--- Quote ---I think you're confusing Facebook with some other site, where you add people you don't actually have an contact with. I'm sure that if you desire, or even need, complete and total anonymity, I daresay that you've failed already. Had one the desire, finding you wouldn't be that difficult. It's the world we live in, and if you do not wish to be found, I suggest you limit your digital foot print.
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I daresay you've failed at saying anything useful. I never said I wanted complete anonymity. Reread the damn post.
--- Quote ---Anonymity is something of a 1/r^2 graph, while you may get so close to absolute zero, where no one knows you, it is impossible. If you want that, and to maintain an online presence, such as torrenting, talking or gaming, then I suggest you come to the realization that you can be found.
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Goddamn it I never said I wanted complete anonymity.
--- Quote ---I no not disagree with you, online is no substitute for real, live, human interactions. Meeting, or talking to someone, through any digital medium, no matter how close to real it can get, is never the same. There are so many things that make face-to-face contact special.
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Yes.
--- Quote ---As a moron, I'm simply saying that getting in touch with people through some ways, and sharing your life with the people you care about, from a great distance, is something that Facebook allows better then many other networking sites.
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If those are relatives you're talking about, I would rather call them. If I wanted to send pictures to them, I would upload them to photobucket and give them a link to my photobucket page. If I wanted to text chat with them, I would use instant messaging. There is no need for Facebook for that.
--- Quote --- Are people that share what they had for breakfast every morning taking it to far? Quite so, and it's rather annoying
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It's also rather irrelevant as I happen to not care what you think of that.
--- Quote --- but then again, they tend to be in real life if they have to validate themselves by sharing their every feeling. But networking is such a valuable career tool to pass it up is of questionable judgement.
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There are networking sites. Linkedin for instance. I suppose it has some limited use as a career networking tool, but that's different from the way most use it anyway.
--- Quote ---Judge me, and my alleged fake friendships, all you like. Just know that broad assumptions usually incorrect.
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Just like your broad assumption that broad assumptions are usually incorrect.
Look, I suppose my original post is a little misleading if you think I wanted total anonymity that much.
This line:
"I'm not going to give away my real life identity to people that I can't communicate with offline."
Replace it with:
"I'm not going to give away my entire real life identity to people that I can't communicate with offline."
All I'm saying is that there is a limit to how much I'm going to expose myself to online communities in general. That doesn't change for Facebook.
metro.:
I hope this doesn't come across to asshole, but if you only have relatives that you care about at a great distance that is a bit depressing.
Also, you almost proved my point by pointing out you could use all these other sites, or one.
Compiling is a good thing?
--- Quote ---"I'm not going to give away my entire real life identity to people that I can't communicate with offline."
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It's this part I am struggling with. Do you go around adding random people to your other networking sites? If you do, then I suppose I see your issue.
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