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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: King Postwhore on February 13, 2018, 05:04:46 PM
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Some of the responses I see on Facebook and Twitter driving me insane. I'm getting to the point where I openly mock people for dumb post and tweets. it's bringing out the worst in me but I can't stop responding to dumb people.
Am I am falling into the mire that is the internet. When I was younger I just bit my tongue and ignored them and walk away in real life. Now that I'm getting older I have this insatiable need to respond. Help me DTF you are my only hope. :lol
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I have a nasty habit of reading the comments after FOX articles. God damn there are some rotten people in the world. In the end it's best to simply chuckle about how stupid they are and then look at videos of kittens. The internet goes both ways, after all. For every page that saddens you there's a "faith in humanity restored" clickbait page.
And nobody need tell me that stupid people comment after HuffPro articles. I know that and it's not the point here.
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Lately I feel the need to point it out. It's like a drug. :lol
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Some of the responses I see on Facebook and Twitter driving me insane.
Life is so peaceful in TAC land.
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I think the world would benefit from a break from the Internet for a month or two.
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SD, i agree. I usually post uplifting, funny stuff. Reading the dredge brings you down.
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I think I started really hating certain internet rock/metal music fans for the way they kept bagging on and on after the release of Linkin Park's One More Light album. We get it. It's not the greatest album ever. I didn't like it that much, except for two songs, but I feel no need to complain about it, since that never solves anything for me.
Especially in light of Chester Bennington's passing and the way he felt so strongly about creating the album, it made me wish that certain vocal people of the internet could have been a little more supportive for him and the band over the direction of the album. They don't have to like it or love it, but I do wish that they chose their words a little more wisely and be less toxic about it. I would not want to say that being more supportive for the album's direction could have saved his life, but still, that whole thing leaves a sour note for me.
I just go about ignoring certain things that is out there on the internet and not read too heavily on certain comments that's on Twitter or Facebook or Youtube and the likes. I'm just glad that I'm part of good forums such as DTF to have good conversations and be part of a supportive community.
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There’s no nastier place in the world than a comments section....no matter the website. Just vile, hateful people from all walks of life making comments they’d never in a million years say to a persons face.
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There’s no nastier place in the world than a comments section....no matter the website. Just vile, hateful people from all walks of life making comments they’d never in a million years say to a persons face.
I say this all the time.
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Some of the responses I see on Facebook and Twitter driving me insane.
Life is so peaceful in TAC land.
It is peaceful isn't it?
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It's everywhere. It's in the this forum. I tend to stay away because this is a community. Facebook and Twitter are not a community.
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There’s no nastier place in the world than a comments section....no matter the website. Just vile, hateful people from all walks of life making comments they’d never in a million years say to a persons face.
I say this all the time.
What does your liver say? And does it have a Facebook account?
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My bladder talks more.
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Joe = :getoffmylawn:
I don't use the twatter's much... scratch that ... at all; and DTF'rs comprise about 90% of my Facebook feed - Joe and Josh, I'd hit you guys so hard! :lol Overall when I'm reading articles on the interwebz, or watchin da youtube'z, I avoid comments sections like the plague.
Except in P/R when Stadler gets a postin. :biggrin:
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It's everywhere. It's in the this forum. I tend to stay away because this is a community. Facebook and Twitter are not a community.
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It's everywhere. It's in the this forum. I tend to stay away because this is a community. Facebook and Twitter are not a community.
Depends on the thread I would think.
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It's everywhere. It's in the this forum. I tend to stay away because this is a community. Facebook and Twitter are not a community.
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Political threads.
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Joe = :getoffmylawn:
I don't use the twatter's much... scratch that ... at all; and DTF'rs comprise about 90% of my Facebook feed - Joe and Josh, I'd hit you guys so hard! :lol Overall when I'm reading articles on the interwebz, or watchin da youtube'z, I avoid comments sections like the plague.
Except in P/R when Stadler gets a postin. :biggrin:
I love the interaction I have with Josh. The world needs more of him.
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I hear ya Joe....I've constructed a pretty good echo chamber with my feed that pretty much caters to my beliefs...liberal, pro science, lots of metal, so there isn't much to disagree with, but yeah, if I stray too far off the reservation I run into the face of it. Granted some are legit people making legit arguments that I just disagree with, but there are some scary fuckers too.
Recently I've been in a mode of don't engage and keep scrolling, and my sanity is the better for it. I'm set in my ways, and I accept there are peeps who are set in the exact opposite ways, and that is what it is. I'm not gonna keep throwing shit against a wall when I know it won't stick.
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Went through the process of having my Facebook account full on deleted about a year ago or so and it’s been great. I still do Twitter for some of the bands I like and sports stuff....but outside of that like Tim....this place is my ‘facebook’ or social media stop.
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Went through the process of having my Facebook account full on deleted about a year ago or so and it’s been great. I still do Twitter for some of the bands I like and sports stuff....but outside of that like Tim....this place is my ‘facebook’ or social media stop.
I could think of doing that, except that there;s a larger metal community that isn't here, mostly the peeps I met through Lady Obscure, that I still treasure being a part of. Also, it's a good way to follow my old bar's drama without having to tempt fate by keeping more intimate contact with those drunks :lol
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Went through the process of having my Facebook account full on deleted about a year ago or so and it’s been great. I still do Twitter for some of the bands I like and sports stuff....but outside of that like Tim....this place is my ‘facebook’ or social media stop.
I could think of doing that, except that there;s a larger metal community that isn't here, mostly the peeps I met through Lady Obscure, that I still treasure being a part of. Also, it's a good way to follow my old bar's drama without having to tempt fate by keeping more intimate contact with those drunks :lol
If I had the discipline to use Facebook for ‘good’ rather than succumb to the ‘evil’ aspects of it I would have kept it. It really is nice to keep in touch with folks and see how they are doing. I just started wasting SO much time on it....looking at nothing and reading just craziness. It was about two or three days after the Presidential Election I dug around and found out you could actually delete your account rather than just log off. I go extreme most of the time on whatever I do so I thought just eliminate the availability of me ever logging back in :lol
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I deleted my old FB account right after the election as well. Then I began to miss some of the people that were long distances away from me, so I made a new one about a year ago. I limited it to less than 30 people, and I'm much happier for doing so. There are people on there from each side of the political spectrum, but I chose people that were respectful, and it has worked out very well.
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I deleted my old FB account right after the election as well. Then I began to miss some of the people that were long distances away from me, so I made a new one about a year ago. I limited it to less than 30 people, and I'm much happier for doing so. There are people on there from each side of the political spectrum, but I chose people that were respectful, and it has worked out very well.
I have contemplated doing this lately. In large part, our kids school communicates a TON of stuff via Facebook. We’ve missed some things due to this. My wife has an account but she’s not logged on in ages and only does every so often to check on things like that.
But I do have a couple friends I only really kept in contact through Facebook that I miss communicating with. I’m on the fence still on whether or not I’ll pull the trigger
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I deleted my old FB account right after the election as well. Then I began to miss some of the people that were long distances away from me, so I made a new one about a year ago. I limited it to less than 30 people, and I'm much happier for doing so. There are people on there from each side of the political spectrum, but I chose people that were respectful, and it has worked out very well.
I have contemplated doing this lately. In large part, our kids school communicates a TON of stuff via Facebook. We’ve missed some things due to this. My wife has an account but she’s not logged on in ages and only does every so often to check on things like that.
But I do have a couple friends I only really kept in contact through Facebook that I miss communicating with. I’m on the fence still on whether or not I’ll pull the trigger
I'd say go for it. It's so easy to miss out on things with people that are far away geographically. Time flies then you realize that you've completely lost touch with someone after a long period of time. I'm in my mid-40's, and almost everyone I know has lives that are pulling them in along in one direction, or another. Without social media we wouldn't be able to stay in touch at all. For all of the trash talk that FB gets (I'm guilty of doing this myself) there definitely is a good side to it.
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I have never had a social media account, other than LinkedIn for work purposes. My wife shows me stuff on her account all the time, and very rarely if ever has it made me think "I need to sign up otherwise I would have missed this."
I don't need to follow anyone on Twitter. No one says anything that profound I need to read that quickly. If it is newsworthy or of interest to me, I will find it via other sources.
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There’s no nastier place in the world than a comments section....no matter the website. Just vile, hateful people from all walks of life making comments they’d never in a million years say to a persons face.
I say this all the time.
Completely and totally agree. It's come to a point where I can predict the comments just by reading the news.
Stuff about immigrants = "Send them back home", fascism apology, racist insults, slut shaming of girls who defend them and "you're a commie" remarks to the guys
Any stuff any politician does = "Thieves, cheaters, we're starving"
Anything a model posts = Gross comments about how they'd bang her
Anything posted by a sport team or player = Insults for the last match
Anything science related = ignorant whackjobs believing in any stupid alternative shit
Anything moon related = "HOAX!!!!1111oneoneone"
And so on, and so forth, every day, every time, thrown in also the religious fanatics and the total inability to type properly or to understand that THERE'S NO NEED TO WRITE IN ALL CAPS.
And don't get me started on people sharing not only fake news, but pure and utter bullshit that would take 0,4 seconds of rational thinking to realize it's either bullshit or intended parody.
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Here's one thing people often tend to forget....you are in control of what you choose to see, and how you choose to respond to what you see. You know now that comments sections of most major websites are not even worth bothering with. And thankfully, at least with Youtube, the comments section is not immediately visible while you're watching the video. Just don't scroll down. Also, it's really not worth arguing/reasoning with idiots. As someone once said, "they'll bring you down to their level and then beat you with experience". The block button is your friend. If they're like that, they're really not worth having on your timeline.
People used to be like "oh it's only a vocal minority", but recent years have shown that that minority of idiots is probably bigger than we thought. They're just all crawling out of the woodwork now.
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I simply try to stick to the better parts of the net and the things that I enjoy about it. Granted, I have zero social media and am never going back after about a decade away from any of it now (jesus, time, stop moving fast bro) and I never read any comment sections for more than a few minutes at a time (mainly to save my freedom); but I get that it's tough not to scratch that itch without drawing some blood.
Humanity hasn't gotten any better or worse. The really sad thing is that for the most part, we haven't changed at all. It's just SOOOOO much more apparent and in your face now. All the dipshits and dumbfucks that would have either never been heard of or would have died off in days of yesteryear are now procreating and have the voice of the internet to speak through now. Sad. Sad stuff. :lol :police:
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I tend to look for the bright spots in situations. I use "social media" in general as a way to show my kids what their "competition" (for lack of a better word) in their careers are spending their time on. Use your time wisely don't piss away hours a day on all the nonsense and focus on education, health and getting ready to enter the real world.
And I tell my boys, if you are thinking about having a girlfriend check her FB. If more than 20% of her pics are selfies, keep moving.
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Some of the responses I see on Facebook and Twitter driving me insane.
Life is so peaceful in TAC land.
No shit, huh? I sort of dabbled a toe in the water with Twitter, but I was saved. Bullet dodged. Now I'm just cranky here. :)
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Some of the responses I see on Facebook and Twitter driving me insane.
Life is so peaceful in TAC land.
No shit, huh? I sort of dabbled a toe in the water with Twitter, but I was saved. Bullet dodged. Now I'm just cranky here. :)
It's unbelievable how different my life is from most of my peers. I'm 28 and while I have Facebook I never go on it, and I have no other social media accounts. Most folks my age think that's crazy and weird but then proceed to create tons of drama and stress in their lives because of social media. My life is much simpler to simply go without.
After spending 10 hours a day at work (on a good day) going home means investing time into my wife and daughter, not sitting on my phone scrolling through Twitter or whatever. Also, I have a very addictive personality so I've always been very mindful about getting sucked into the social media hole - which is pretty much the human brain equivalent of any other typical addiction.
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It's just lately that I've had this need to respond to idiots. i used to scroll right by them before.
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It's just lately that I've had this need to respond to idiots. i used to scroll right by them before.
Me too. Moon hoaxers, flat earthers, bigots and fascists... can't stay silent in front of the obscenities they post.
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I used to follow lots of very cynical pages that mock these people but realized it was making me bitter and filled with negativity so stopped that. I still follow some because they post pretty varied content tho, mostly memes :P
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SD, i agree.
Ah, how I missed this. :biggrin:
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Twitter and Facebook are exactly what you make it.
It's just lately that I've had this need to respond to idiots. i used to scroll right by them before.
Just keep on scrolling right by them. Or just block them. It's really that simple. People need to learn this, instead of just totally blindly dismissing the entire media. I mean, if you want to completely avoid it, then you do you.
Arguing is completely unnecessary. If both sides stand by their convictions, neither is going to back down, so it's a total waste of time and energy that could be better spent doing things that make you feel good.
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SD, i agree.
Ah, how I missed this. :biggrin:
:lol
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I hear ya Joe....I've constructed a pretty good echo chamber with my feed that pretty much caters to my beliefs...liberal, pro science, lots of metal, so there isn't much to disagree with, but yeah, if I stray too far off the reservation I run into the face of it. Granted some are legit people making legit arguments that I just disagree with, but there are some scary fuckers too.
Recently I've been in a mode of don't engage and keep scrolling, and my sanity is the better for it. I'm set in my ways, and I accept there are peeps who are set in the exact opposite ways, and that is what it is. I'm not gonna keep throwing shit against a wall when I know it won't stick.
But I hope you respectfully understand that this is part of the problem. Maybe not with you, but you get people - and I know some personally -that get into their little bubble and they start to think that's the way the entire world is, and they forget that people can be reasonable, nice, respectful people AND still disagree with fundamental parts of your point of view. When you've been ingrained with message A over and over and over, and then you hear B without background, without (sometimes) context, and without elaboration, it can seem jarring.
I also disagree with the idea that "the media is what you make it". Twitter in particular is purposefully set up to promote the popularity wave. If you can get the controversial quip in, or the good burn, then start accumulating "Likes" like candy at a Halloween party, it starts to skew the conversation. It's not about a meaningful debate of two reasonable ideas in the public forum, it's a battle of who can sling the best one-liner and get the most eyeballs.
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Social has become so bad. It's really sad honestly.
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I hear ya Joe....I've constructed a pretty good echo chamber with my feed that pretty much caters to my beliefs...liberal, pro science, lots of metal, so there isn't much to disagree with, but yeah, if I stray too far off the reservation I run into the face of it. Granted some are legit people making legit arguments that I just disagree with, but there are some scary fuckers too.
Recently I've been in a mode of don't engage and keep scrolling, and my sanity is the better for it. I'm set in my ways, and I accept there are peeps who are set in the exact opposite ways, and that is what it is. I'm not gonna keep throwing shit against a wall when I know it won't stick.
But I hope you respectfully understand that this is part of the problem. Maybe not with you, but you get people - and I know some personally -that get into their little bubble and they start to think that's the way the entire world is, and they forget that people can be reasonable, nice, respectful people AND still disagree with fundamental parts of your point of view. When you've been ingrained with message A over and over and over, and then you hear B without background, without (sometimes) context, and without elaboration, it can seem jarring.
I also disagree with the idea that "the media is what you make it". Twitter in particular is purposefully set up to promote the popularity wave. If you can get the controversial quip in, or the good burn, then start accumulating "Likes" like candy at a Halloween party, it starts to skew the conversation. It's not about a meaningful debate of two reasonable ideas in the public forum, it's a battle of who can sling the best one-liner and get the most eyeballs.
Oh I totally understand that, that's why I read the P&R section here. It gives me a view of the other side without being sourced from their echo chamber, which will inevitably be as biased as mine. And I don't think that the echo chamber gives them a sense of that is how the whole world is, I think it gives them a sense of they are totally in the right and everyone else is fucking satan, which in the long run is much, much worse. If we constantly perceive the other side as being completely and morally bankrupt, coming together on simple issues becomes an impossibility.
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The internet certainly brings out the worse in some people. For all the benefits of the internet, I think this is the huge drawback which has exploded thanks to social media and the idea that our voices are all important and should be heard. I stay far away from politics on social media, there's no benefit. There's no discussion, it's always just a pissing match that in the end, makes no one look good and sometimes causes real hatred.
I've become friends with someone who I video game with. He requested me on facebook, but warned me that he's a troll. I was like.. "ok, whatever" but now I see it on facebook. I really don't like his actions. He purposely picks fights with people for fun on the comments. I kind of understand his "it's fun" argument. I like to troll myself from time to time, getting reactions out of people can be really fun, but purposely picking on random people on the internet specifically on political commentary is a bit ridiculous IMO.
I've kind of grown accustomed to the idea that if you are going to get involved in the comments section, don't expect civil conversation and don't take anything seriously from it. Therefore, don't get your emotions worked up because of the internet trolls.
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The best thing at the moment is people getting upset because Snapchat decided to update their look/layout whatever its called. They got so used to it that when change occurs its so unfamiliar and they don't want to bother learning the new layout/interface, so they complain on Facebook or don't even bother using it anymore.
It's actually pretty funny. Makes me wish I had a Snapchat before and after the update just to see what the hubbub is all about.
I only check Facebook on my chrome browser, I don't know why even though I have the app. I use the app if I want to post a gif as thats the only way I can post a gif.
It is funny thoigh, seeing the reactions from people around my age when I tell them I don't got a snapchat, Twitter, and whatever else they have. I do have an Instagram but rarely, if ever, use it.
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Tbh the Snapchat update isn't even that different. :lol
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Tbh the Snapchat update isn't even that different. :lol
Which shows that people don't like change and won't bother to adapt.
Haha heres a nice article
https://money.cnn.com/2018/02/12/technology/snapchat-update-backlash/index.html
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The best thing at the moment is people getting upset because Snapchat decided to update their look/layout whatever its called. They got so used to it that when change occurs its so unfamiliar and they don't want to bother learning the new layout/interface, so they complain on Facebook or don't even bother using it anymore.
It's actually pretty funny. Makes me wish I had a Snapchat before and after the update just to see what the hubbub is all about.
I only check Facebook on my chrome browser, I don't know why even though I have the app. I use the app if I want to post a gif as thats the only way I can post a gif.
It is funny thoigh, seeing the reactions from people around my age when I tell them I don't got a snapchat, Twitter, and whatever else they have. I do have an Instagram but rarely, if ever, use it.
My daughter was apoplectic over the changes. She tried to explain it to me, but I was pleasantly surprised that she noticed my eyeballs glazed over and so she gave up. ;) :)
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I look forward to one day being a parent so I can willfully misunderstand the latest social media.
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I look forward to one day being a parent so I can willfully misunderstand the latest social media.
Is this a shot at me XJ?
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Is this a shot at me XJ?
Nope. Genuinely looking forward to it. Already subject all my friends to Dad Joke level puns.
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I'll cop to that though. I know far more about what's going on than they think I do, and I'm more than fine with that. They can think I really do believe it's called "Snapgram" all they want.
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Ok. Just wanted to make sure. What you're saying reminds me of myself. In my twenties I said let's save the world. In my 40's I said can I have less taxes?
Priorities do change.
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I'll cop to that though. I know far more about what's going on than they think I do, and I'm more than fine with that. They can think I really do believe it's called "Snapgram" all they want.
"You know Snapchat right?"
"Nah, I never really played Pokemon."
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I seriously don't get snapchat man.
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Ok. Just wanted to make sure. What you're saying reminds me of myself. In my twenties I said let's save the world. In my 40's I said can I have less taxes?
Priorities do change.
Haha, you're a better man than I. In my twenties, I said "Of course I can funnel six beers. Wanna make out?" In my 40's I said I'll have an iced tea, please, and can I have less taxes?
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I did that as well. :lol
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jingle.daughter lives in snapchat. I don't get it, but whatever. I'm sure my parents didn't 'get' all of my Commodore64 gaming, or rolls of quarters for the arcade, or having both a snooker cue and an 8-ball cue.
Or the Snapple bottle with a hole in the bottom of it. ;D
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Or the Snapple bottle with a hole in the bottom of it. ;D
For some reason this reminded me of the Dave Chappelle episode where the dude cut the bottom out of a popcorn bucket at the movie theater so that his girlfriend could give him a handjob during the movie. :lol
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I'll cop to that though. I know far more about what's going on than they think I do, and I'm more than fine with that. They can think I really do believe it's called "Snapgram" all they want.
This will only work if you call the internet "the inter-tubes", and have them buy into your ruse...
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I almost never reed the comment sections. I scroll by things that are not worth my time.
Most of my news I get from either TV or a respectable newspaper I subscribe to.
For me Facebook is a tool to keep contact with friends, learn about upcoming concerts and other events.
I follow a lot of promotors on FB and would miss a lot of shows if I was not there. I would also not be able to meet up with both old and new voncertbuddies if it was not for FB.
I have Twitter but don't really use it.
Instagram is for following my daughters school.
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I think I started really hating certain internet rock/metal music fans for the way they kept bagging on and on after the release of Linkin Park's One More Light album. We get it. It's not the greatest album ever. I didn't like it that much, except for two songs, but I feel no need to complain about it, since that never solves anything for me.
Especially in light of Chester Bennington's passing and the way he felt so strongly about creating the album, it made me wish that certain vocal people of the internet could have been a little more supportive for him and the band over the direction of the album. They don't have to like it or love it, but I do wish that they chose their words a little more wisely and be less toxic about it. I would not want to say that being more supportive for the album's direction could have saved his life, but still, that whole thing leaves a sour note for me.
I just go about ignoring certain things that is out there on the internet and not read too heavily on certain comments that's on Twitter or Facebook or Youtube and the likes. I'm just glad that I'm part of good forums such as DTF to have good conversations and be part of a supportive community.
happy valentines day
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Joe = :getoffmylawn:
I don't use the twatter's much... scratch that ... at all; and DTF'rs comprise about 90% of my Facebook feed - Joe and Josh, I'd hit you guys so hard! :lol Overall when I'm reading articles on the interwebz, or watchin da youtube'z, I avoid comments sections like the plague.
Except in P/R when Stadler gets a postin. :biggrin:
I love the interaction I have with Josh. The world needs more of him.
We have a lot of rational intelligent folks on this board. (Don't know what my problem is?) So I can disagree with people and not have to have it turn into a shit storm.
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jingle.daughter lives in snapchat. I don't get it, but whatever. I'm sure my parents didn't 'get' all of my Commodore64 gaming, or rolls of quarters for the arcade, or having both a snooker cue and an 8-ball cue.
Or the Snapple bottle with a hole in the bottom of it. ;D
You had secret signals with your parents for your hookers and your coke? MY MAN!